KBP Instrument Design Bureau

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KBP Instrument Design Bureau, Officially Russian: АО «Конструкторское бюро приборостроения им. академика А. Г. Шипунова» (Кбп), romanized: AO "Konstruktorskoye Byuro Priborostroyeniya im. akademika A. G. Shipunova" (KBP), "Joint-Stock Company Instrument Design Bureau named after Academic A. G. Shipunov" is a Russian firearms manufacturer located in Tula. It is one of the main enterprises in the Russian defense industry and a major weapons supplier for the Russian Armed Forces. KBP produces small arms, autocannons, grenade launchers, and anti-tank and anti-air defense systems including air-to-ground, surface-to-air and ground-to-ground weaponry. KBP was founded in 1927 as a small arms OKB of the Tula Arms Plant, and began to specialise in missile and precision-guided systems under the direction of Arkady Shipunov from the 1960s. It became one of the most successful OKBs in the Soviet Union, with many of its designs being adopted by the Soviet Armed Forces, and its employees winning 8 Lenin...

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