Vympel NPO explained

Vympel
Former Names:OKB-134
Type:Joint Stock Company
Industry:Defence
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Founded:1949
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Hq Location City:Moscow
Hq Location Country:Russia
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Products:Missiles, Anti-ballistic missiles, Anti-aircraft missile systems
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Parent:Tactical Missiles Corporation

Vympel NPO is a Russian research and production company (NPO) based near Moscow, mostly known for their air-to-air missiles. Other projects include SAM and ABM defenses. It was started in the Soviet era as an OKB (experimental design bureau).

History

Vympel started out after World War II as OKB-134, with leading the team. The first product they designed was the K-7 missile.[1] Their first missile built in serial production was the K-13 (R-13) in 1958. Toropov moved to Tushino Aviation Facility in 1961 and was replaced by .[2] Somewhere between 1966 and 1968 the OKB got renamed to Vympel. In 1977 Matus Bisnovat of OKB-4 Molniya died, and all missile related work was passed to Vympel. G. Khokhlov led the team until 1981, when Genadiy A. Sokolovski succeeded him.[3]

In 1992 the GosMKB Vympel got started on the basis of the OKB[4] and in 1994 Sokolovski became the director of development at the company.

In May 2004 the Tactical Missiles Corporation was formed and Vympel became a part of it, as the design and development facility.

Notable projects

Air-to-air missiles

Air-to-surface missiles

Surface-to-air missiles

References

  1. http://www.aviation.ru/Vympel/ Aviation.ru - GosMKB «Vympel»
  2. http://fas.org/man/dod-101/sys/missile/row/aa-1.htm Federation of American Scientists - AA-1 ALKALI
  3. Web site: eDefense blog - 25 years of service of Russian Kh-29 missile . 2006-02-26 . 2018-05-22 . https://web.archive.org/web/20180522112307/http://edefense.blogspot.com/2005/12/25-years-of-service-of-russian-kh-29.html . dead .
  4. http://peterpalms.com/russia/texts/pd70.html Palms & Company Document - Russia's 200 largest industries available for merger - acquisition

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