KB Tochmash explained

KB Tochmash
Industry:	Defense
Predecessors:	-->
Successors:	-->
Founded:	1934
Founders:	--> Yakov Taubin
Hq Location City:	Moscow
Hq Location Country:	Russia
Areas Served:	-->
Products:	Anti-aircraft defence systems, MANPADS, Missiles, Autocannons, Close-in weapon systems (CIWS)
Owners:	-->
Parent:	High Precision Systems

The JSC Precision Engineering Design Bureau named after A. E. Nudelman (Russian: Конструкторское бюро точного машиностроения им. А. Э. Нудельмана|Konstruktorskoye Byuro Tochnogo Mashinostroeniya im. A. E. Nudelmana), shortened to "KB Tochmash" (Russian: КБ Точмаш|KB Tochmash), is a missile design bureau located in Moscow. It was founded in 1934 under the designation OKB-16 under the leadership of Yakov Taubin,^[1] but after his arrest and execution, leadership fell to Alexander Nudelman, who would lead it until 1987.^[2]

Products

KB Tochmash has designed many weapon systems, including the following:

Gun systems

• Nudelman-Suranov NS-37 Autocannon
• Nudelman-Suranov NS-23 Autocannon
• Nudelman-Suranov NS-45 Autocannon
• Nudelman N-37 Autocannon
• Nudelman-Rikhter NR-23 Autocannon
• Nudelman-Rikhter NR-30 Autocannon
• Rikhter R-23 Autocannon
• Nudelman-Nemenov NN-30 CIWS
• AGS-17 Automatic Grenade Launcher

Rockets

• S-5
• S-8
• S-25

Anti-tank missiles

• 3M11 Falanga
• 9K112 Kobra

Anti-aircraft missile systems

• SA-9 / 9K31 Strela-1 Self Propelled Air Defense Missile System,
• SA-13 / 9K35 Strela-10 Tracked Air Defense Missile System,
  • 9K35 Strela-10 in modified versions (M/M1/M2/M3 and M4),
• Sosna-R Air Defense Missile System (successor to Strela-10),^[3]
• Palma/Palash combined air defense gun and missile system close-in weapon system.

See also

• Techmash

Notes and References

1. Web site: Таубин Яков Григорьевич . Taubin, Yakov Grigoryevich . Карта-справочник города Королев (Maps and Directories of Korolev) . 2022-01-04.
2. Web site: ABOUT A.NUDELMAN . KB Tochmash . 2022-01-04.
3. Web site: Sosna: Air Defense Missile System. kbtochmash.com. 17 January 2016.