High Precision Weapons from Russia

The best of the best examples of the innovative military systems

This year at IDEX-2017 Russian holding company High-Precision Weapons as always shows the best of the best in its class examples of the innovative systems. This holding is a leader not only the Russian military-industrial complex, it is one of the leading developers of the most advanced combat systems in the world. Not a coincidence that at all exhibitions where the company participates, its exposition has become one of the most popular.

The High-Precision Weapons Holding (a part of the Rostec State Corporation) was founded in 2009. The holding consists of a number of largest leading defense enterprises that are well known on the world arms market. It is sufficient only to mention such brands as the JSC Shipunov KBP Instrument Design Bureau”, the “Tula Arms Plant”, “Tulatochmash”, the “Tactical Missiles Corporation”, the “Nudelman Precision Engineering Design Bureau”, the “Kovrov Electromechanical Plant”, the “V.A. Degtyaryov Plant”, the All-Russian Scientific Research Institute “Signal”, and others. As of today, there are 19 companies joined in the holding. Most of them are national and international leaders in their segments.

High-Precision Weapons Holding plays an increasingly important role on the world arms market. The holding is the Russian largest developer and manufacturer of the most modern and innovative high-precision weapons. The importance and potential of the Russian holding increase worldwide as well: On a scale of the top 100 weapons manufacturers in the world, the Stockholm International Peace Research Institute (SIPRI) rates the High-Precision Weapons Holding from Russia at 39.

Such a success (the holding did not belong to the world’s top 100 weapons manufacturers before) can be explained by increasing deliveries both to the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation and to the foreign market. According to an SIPRI expert, “the Russian companies ride the ground-swell of boosts in military spending and arms export. Eleven companies from the top 100 list are Russian ones. Their income has increased by a total of 48.4%”. It also can be noted that the High-Precision Weapons Holding belongs to the top 10 world’s defensive rankings by an overall production and supply increase rate.

Holding is existing export contracts and the conclusion new is being conducted almost constantly. There is every reason to believe that results of 2017 will surpass last year's figures, when the High-Precision Weapons recorded the high efficiency of their foreign economic activities.

The products of the holding’s companies are well known on all continents and much sought after on international arms markets. Interest in the products of the “High-Precision Weapons Holding” grows due to the objective situation.

The exports of the holding are based on warfare systems well known on the international market such as “Pantsir-S1”, “Palma”, “Kornet-E”, “Konkurs”, “Metis-M1”, “Igla-S”, “Arkan”, “Verba”, “Shmel”, “Kapustnik”, and others as well as on training systems, armored vehicles upgrade, and so on (for more details, see this issue of the newspaper “High-Precision Weapons”).

The holding’s products are well known and much sought after on the markets in the Middle East, the Gulf, Northern Africa, Latin America, India, Central and Southern Africa. The holding is constantly expanding the geography of its exports. This is due to product line extension, development of new models and upgrade of products in demand as well as well thought-out service policy.

The holding invests much into the development of promising designs of weapons and military equipment, enhances and augments its development and production potential, and invests in the development of models of tomorrow.

It is evident that the demand for high-precision weapons only increases around the world. They do not miss. They are mobile, fast, maintenance-friendly, reliable, and the most modern. The newest technological solutions are used. 20 years ago, the proportion of high-precision weapons used in local conflicts amounted to up to 7%. In recent years, this share has increased by up to 90-95%. The most designs of the High-Precision Weapons Holding are the best in the world and determine the technological vectors of development in their segments.

In 2016, the High-Precision Weapons holding toped the planned revenue value by more than one milliard US dollars. The holding is gradually taking a more important position in the global arms market. A considerable amount of holding’s production enterprises supplies is carried out serving the interests of many regions. Moreover, the arms produced by the holding constitute the basis of high precision weapon park of many countries. The High-Precision Weapons holding is the biggest developer and producer of the top-notch high precision weapons in Russia.

Experts in the global arms market confident that interest in high-precision weapons in the world will only grow. Therefore, the demand for the products of the leading Russian holding will also grow from year to year.