JSC NPO Almaz named after A.A. Raspletin (, former SB-1, 1947âÂÂ1950; KB-1, 1950âÂÂ1966; MKB Strela, 1966âÂÂ1971; TsKB Almaz, 1971âÂÂ1988; NPO Almaz, 1988âÂÂ2008; GSKB Almaz-Antey, 2008âÂÂ2015) is a Soviet/Russian military R&D enterprise founded in 1947. It is the core of the Almaz-Antey holding. Headquarters â Moscow, Leningradsky av., 80.
The company is named after its chief designer .
Since 1955, KB-1 developed such air defence missile systems as the S-25 Berkut, S-75 Dvina, S-125 Neva/Pechora, S-200 Angara/Vega/Dubna, S-300, S-400 Triumf, S-300PMU, S-300PMU2, and S-350E Vityaz.
On 30 November 2009, the board of directors of Almaz-Antey voted to reorganize the joint-stock companies NIEMI, NIIRP, MNIIRE Altair and MNIIPA, merging them with NPO Almaz to form GSKB joint venture. GSKB became the head R&D arm of Almaz-Antey holdings, becoming its Head System Design Bureau ().
NIIRP scientific & research center is developing the Joint system of air and ballistic missile defense (). Earlier, NIIRP successfully developed the A-135 BMD system together with Amur-P multi-channel firing system which were put into operation to protect Moscow on 17 February 1995. NIIRP had previously designed the A-35 and A-35M BMD systems, which defended Moscow from 1977 until the full deployment of the A-135.
In February 2011, it was announced that the first S-500 missile systems should be in serial production by 2014. There will be also a version of the system called S-1000.