MKB Raduga
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MKB Raduga (Russian МКБ Радуга, meaning Raduga Design Bureau, where raduga literally means "rainbow") is a Russian aerospace company, concerned with the production of various missile systems and related technologies. It is headquartered in Dubna in the Moscow Oblast. It was formerly a division of the Mikoyan-Gurevich design bureau, before being spun off as a separate OKB (design bureau) in March 1957.
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History
- October 1946 - OKB-2
- 12 October 1951 - division of OKB-155-1 (headed by M.I.Gurevich)
- March 1957 - A.Ya.Bereznyak became the chief designer
- June 1965 - machine building design bureau "Raduga"
- 19 June 1972 - Dubna production and development amalgamation "Raduga"
- 07 September 1978 - Dubna production amalgamation "Raduga"
- 12 May 1982 - machine building design bureau "Raduga"
Products
Kometa series
- KS-1 Komet (NATO designation AS-1 Kennel) the first Soviet air-launched anti-ship cruise missile
- K-10S (AS-2 Kipper) heavy anti-ship missile, Tu-16
Naval P-Series
- P-15 Termit (SS-N-2 Styx) ship-launched cruise missile (the basis for the Chinese HY-2 Silkworm missile), 1955
- P-270 3M80 Moskit (one of the missiles known to NATO as SS-N-22 Sunburn) ramjet-propelled anti-ship missile
Kh/KSR airborn series
- K-9 long-range air-to-air missile
- KSR-2 (AS-5 Kelt), 1956, Tu-16KSR-2
- K-26/KSR-5 (AS-6 Kingfish), Tu-16K-26, Tu-16KSR-2-5, Tu-16KSR-2-5-11. Development of Kh-22. Development authorized 24 August 1962. Officially entered service 12 November 1969 (along with K-10-26). Retired in 1994.
- KSR-11
- Kh-15 (AS-16 Kickback) hypersonic aeroballistic short-range attack missile using liquid-fuel rocket propulsion. Tu-22M2,M3, Tu-95MS. First missiles were built in 1978. Serial production in mid-1980s.
- Kh-20 air-launched cruise missile, Tu-95K. Development of "K-20 system" (consisting of Kh-20 missile, Tu-95K carrier, etc) was authorized 11 March 1954.
- Kh-20M (AS-3 Kangaroo) is Kh-20 with improved thermo-nuclear warhead. K-20 has officially entered service 9 September 1960. Retired in 1991 due to SALT-1 agreement.
- Kh-22 (AS-4 Kitchen) anti-ship missile, Tu-22K, Tu-22M, Tu-95K-22. Development of "missile complex K-22" was authorized 15 April 1958. Officially entered service 09 February 1971. K-95-22 (with Tu-95K-22 aircraft) entered service in 1987.
- Kh-28 (AS-9 Kyle) anti-radar missile
- Kh-45, Sukhoi T-4, Sukhoi T-4MS
- Kh-55 Granat (AS-15 Kent) cruise missile, 1976, Tu-95MS, Tu-160. Development was authorized 08 December 1976. The first serial Kh-55 was launched 23 February 1981. Officially entered service (complex of Kh-55 and Tu-95MS) 31 December 1983.
- Kh-58 (AS-11 Kilter) anti-radar missile
- Kh-59 Ovod (AS-13 Kingbolt) tactical air-to-surface TV-guided missile
- Kh-2000, Sukhoi T-4, Sukhoi T-4MS
Others
- 85R, 85RU (SS-N-14 Silex) surface-launched torpedo-carrying anti-submarine missiles
- MV-1 target drone
- KSR-5-NM target drone
- Burlak, Burlak-M air-lauched spacecraft launcher, Tu-160SK
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