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MKB Raduga

Aircraft design bureau in USSR and Russia

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MKB Raduga (Russian: МКБ Радуга, meaning Raduga Design Bureau (Russian: машиностроительное конструкторское бюро «Радуга»), where raduga literally means "rainbow") is a Russian aerospace company, concerned with the production of various missile-systems and related technologies. It is headquartered in Dubna, Moscow Oblast. Formerly a division of the Mikoyan-Gurevich design bureau, it was spun off as a separate OKB (design bureau, Russian: опытно-конструкторское бюро) in March 1957.

01History

  • October 1946 - OKB-2
  • 12 October 1951 - division of OKB-155-1 (headed by Mikhail Gurevich)
  • March 1957 - Aleksandr Bereznyak became the chief designer
  • June 1965 - machine building design bureau "Raduga"
  • 19 June 1972 - Dubna production and development amalgamation "Raduga"
  • 7 September 1978 - Dubna production amalgamation "Raduga"
  • 12 May 1982 - machine building design bureau "Raduga"
Kh-22 missile memorial near MKB Raduga in Dubna
Kh-22 missile memorial near MKB Raduga in Dubna

02Products

Kometa series

Naval P-Series

Kh/KSR airborne series

Others

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