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Almaz-Antey

Issue: February-March 2011 By Vladislav V.Mentschikov, Director General, Almaz-Antey Air Defense Concern

Russia’s answer for secure skies

Almaz-Antey Air Defense Concern was created in 2002 and currently has more than 50 enterprises making it as one of Russia’s leading holding defence companies and the world’s major supplier of air defence systems.

According to the top 100 annual rating of the US-based Defense News Weekly the Concern’s place is among top 30 largest defence companies in the world.

One of the latest Concern developments is S-400 Triumph long-range new generation ADS which became operational in August 2007. After upgrading this system will become the major weaponry for the Russia’s aerospace defence concept for a number of years.

Nowadays Almaz-Antey Air Defense Concern is involved in the development of the future common system of anti-aircraft and anti-missile weapons of the fifth generation and in the implementation of the Concept of the aerial-space defence of the Russian Federation.

Concern has a wage export potential with an existing portfolio around $6 billion. The Almaz-Antey-made ADS have been operated by more than 50 countries in South East Asia, Middle East, Europe, Africa and Latin America.

The list of arms and military equipment being offered for export by Almaz-Antey includes the following items:

  • long-range air defence systems S-300 PMU2 Favorit, S-400 Triumph and S-300VM (Antey-2500);
  • Medium-range air defence systems: Buk-M1-2, Buk-M2E; Pechora-2A;
  • Short-range air defence missile systems Tor-M1, Tor-M2E;
  • Automated control systems Senezh-M1E, Rubezh-ME, Baikal-1ME, PPRU-M;
  • Air defence radar stations 96L6E, 6C19M2, 9C15MV3, Gamma-DE, Gamma-C1E, Kasta-2E2;
  • Ground reconnaissance radar stations Zoopark-1, Credo-1, Fara-1, meteorology system Ulybka;
  • Ship-borne air defence systems: Rif-M, Shtil-1, Klinok;
  • Integrated missile systems Kalibr-NKE, Kalibr-PLE, as well as other defense items from the whole range of the Concern manufactured products.

Concern is entitled to be engaged in independent foreign trade activity in particular carrying out negotiations and signing contracts on after-sale service/ maintenance of manufactured and previously delivered armament and defence equipment.