High-Precision Weapons Holding Special Edition №01, 2017 EXHIBITIONS 2017 JSC ‘High Precision Weapons’ the leading Russian designer Moscow-based and ranked among top 50 global producers and manufacturer of wide variety state-of-the-art military and of military equipment by SIPRI chart, JSC ‘High Precision Weapons’ special equipment, including but not limited to land systems, small is legally authorized since November 2016 to provide full spectrum The largest world arms, air close and short range defense systems, is now opening of maintenance and overhaul, modernization and upgrade works defensive exhibitions in new business opportunities for partners. and services worldwide. which the enterprises of High-Precision Weapons holding complexes participate in 2017 High Precision The Most Innovative Weapons in the World IDEX-2017 Russia has been famous for its weap - February 19–23 ons. In the 21st century Russian high- precision weapons sets the fashion in United Arab Emirates its class. Main developer and manufac- turer of such weapons — High-Precision Weapons Holding (a part of the Rostec LIMA-2017 State Corporation). The work of the enter- prises of the holding to ensure existing March 21–25 export contracts and the conclusion new Malaysia is being conducted almost constant - ly. There is every reason to believe that results of 2017 will surpass last year’s fig- IMDS-2017 ures, when the High-Precision Weapons recorded the high efficiency of their for- June 28 — July 02 eign economic activities. Russia igh-Precision Weapons Holding plays an increasingly important role on the world arms market. MAKS-2017 The holding is the Russian largest Hdeveloper and manufacturer of the most mod- July ern and innovative high-precision weapons. The importance and potential of the Russian Russia holding increase worldwide as well: On a scale of the top 100 weapons manufacturers in the world, the Stockholm International Peace are well known on the world arms market. It is “Arkan”, “Verba”, “Shmel”, “Kapustnik”, and ARMY-2017 Research Institute (SIPRI) rates the High- sufficient only to mention such brands as the others as well as on training systems, armored Precision Weapons Holding from Russia at 39. JSC Shipunov KBP Instrument Design Bureau”, vehicles upgrade, and so on (for more details, August 22–27 Such a success (the holding did not belong the “Tula Arms Plant”, “Tulatochmash”, the see this issue of the newspaper “High-Precision to the world’s top 100 weapons manufactur- “Tactical Missiles Corporation”, the “Nudelman Weapons”). Russia ers before) can be explained by increasing Precision Engineering Design Bureau”, the The holding’s products are well known and deliveries both to the Armed Forces of the “Kovrov Electromechanical Plant”, the “V.A. much sought after on the markets in the Middle INTERPOLITEX 2017 Russian Federation and to the foreign market. Degtyaryov Plant”, the All-Russian Scientific East, the Gulf, Northern Africa, Latin America, According to an SIPRI expert, “the Russian Research Institute “Signal”, and others. As of India, Central and Southern Africa. The hold- companies ride the ground-swell of boosts today, there are 19 companies joined in the ing is constantly expanding the geography of October 17–20 in military spending and arms export. Eleven holding. Most of them are national and inter- its exports. This is due to product line exten- Russia companies from the top 100 list are Russian national leaders in their segments. sion, development of new models and upgrade ones. Their income has increased by a total The products of the holding’s companies are of products in demand as well as well thought- of 48.4%”. It also can be noted that the High- well known on all continents and much sought out service policy. Gulf Defense & Precision Weapons Holding belongs to the after on international arms markets. Interest in The holding invests much into the devel- Aerospace 2017 top 10 world’s defensive rankings by an over- the products of the “High-Precision Weapons opment of promising designs of weapons and all production and supply increase rate. Holding” grows due to the objective situation. military equipment, enhances and augments December 12–14 A few historical facts about the company. The exports of the holding are based on its development and production potential, and The High-Precision Weapons Holding was warfare systems well known on the interna- invests in the development of models of tomor- Kuwait founded in 2009. The holding consists of a num- tional market such as “Pantsir-S1”, “Palma”, row. ber of largest leading defense enterprises that “Kornet-E”, “Konkurs”, “Metis-M1”, “Igla-S”, (See page 3) 2 Special Edition №01, 2017 High-Precision Weapons Holding IDEX 2017 PALMA & SOSNA PALMA designed to defeat all types of air Structurally the firing module is com- configuration and two-channel aerodynam- missile guidance. On launching trajectory – attack weapons, including antiship mis- prised of an artillery mount with gear system ic guidance configuration that is realized by a smoke-protected radio command system siles flying at low and extreme-low alti- and optronic control system. As armaments two pairs of orthogonal aerodynamic control that is function in radiolocation mode. At tudes at close approaches to the carri- of firing models are used two AO-18KD rapid- surfaces. SOSNA-R missile is deployed in a High-precision guidance of march phase is er-ship. System SOSNA is intended to fire modernized cannons guns with linkless launcher container. It is maintenance-free. realized in laser information field received protect army units in any form of combat ammunition feed, increased projectile muzzle The missile is launched for the container. by photodetector that is installed in the mis- including on the march against all types velocity and with essentially increased service The missile is rolling during the flight. sile back end. The missile munitions includes of air attacks and reconnaissance means life, and also highly effective eight SOSNA-R Initial rotating is received during its move- blast warhead, rod-fragmentation warhead, diving and flying at low and extreme-low light hypersonic SAM. ment inside the container, during the flight impact fuse and laser noncontact target sen- altitudes. sor with continuous radiation. The optronic control system of PALMA ombined armament consisting of spe- ADMGS ensures the target detection, auto- cially de-signed SOSNA-R high-speed matic acquisition, tracking, measuring of precision-guided laser beam riding angular coordinate and distance, and also missiles and two AO-18KD rapid-fire laying of an information field of laser-beam Ccannons. This combination provides for a lay- control channel to the target at any time in ered air defense against the adversary’s air the conditions of jamming and natural noise. attack weapons in the area of responsibility of Optronic control system consists of gyro- the system. Unique specially designed multi- stabilized platform with two-channel stabi- channel automatic all-weather day/night opto- lization and guidance system, TV system, electronic control system of high precision. thermal imaging channel, thermal imag- Armament and surveillance and target desig- ing channel of missile direction finder, mis- nation radar are installed directly on artillery sile control laser-beam channel, laser range mount on “the same axis” to exclude the errors finder, digital computer, automatic control caused by ship strains. Automatic, semi-auto- unit for target and missile acquisition and matic and inertial operating modes. tracking, stabilization and guidance system SOSNA’s system construction is based of equipment, display and control equipment. new small-size highly effective air defense Main advantages of PALMA ADGMS: guided missile and new high-precision ECM- 1. Combination of high combat perfor- protected optronic control system. The mis- mance, rather low cost and jamming immu- siles and optronic control system are installed nity, hiding operations, impossibility of the on the turning unit (mount) with gears for lay- system destruction by antiradar missiles. ing of two packages of missiles in containers. 2. High firepower attained as a result of 12 SAMs are ready to launch and placed com- a merger of two factors: short flying time of pactly enough on a launching mount owing to the missile to the target and the ability of the small weight and dimensions of missiles. The SAM SOSNA-R has two stages and con- the rotating is continuing due to wing unit. gun mount to conduct rapid fire. turning part is made as firing compartment sists of march stage (shell) and droppable To control the rolling missile, gyroscope 3. PALMA ADMGS and SOSNA ADMS which can be mounted on various carriers solid-propellant low smoke booster that has measures missile attitude position by list. have two common structural components: (load-carrying capacity more than 3.5 tons). short working time. The missile has canard The combined control system is used for SOSNA-R SAM and Optronic control system. JSC «Kovrov Electromechanical Plant» ovrov Electromechanical Plant is Traditional products are represented by mul- any armored mobile machinery, stationary bat machinery with high-precision destructive exhibiting its traditional products at timedia facilities, and new projects are made objects. KEMP suggestion is to mount it on equipment at simultaneous gunner protection the exhibition Idex-2017 (Abu-Dhabi, in the form of 3D models. Arbalet-DM is rep- remotely controlled machines. In 2016 CMRC from enemy’s fire. It is located inside of the UAE): resented as a working model in the scale of 1:3. «Arbalet-DM» was shown on the basis of Tiger armored vehicle. The specialists pay atten- KElectrohydraulic systems of stabilization CMRC «Arbalet-DM» is accepted in the armored vehicle on the Victory parade on tion to the high combat characteristics of the • and guidance, Russian Army. It can be installed almost on May 9. The main purpose is to provide com- article, as well as its reliability and efficiency.