Tikhomirov Scientific Research Institute of Instrument Design

Russian developer of weaponry control systems

NIIP headquarters facade

JSC V.V. Tikhomirov Scientific Research Institute of Instrument Design (Russian: ОАО «Научно-исследовательский институт приборостроения имени В.В.Тихомирова», Russian: НИИП, NIIP) is a joint stock company, one of the Russian enterprises in the development of weaponry control systems for fighter planes and mobile medium range anti-aircraft SAM defence vehicles.

History

The institute was created on March 1, 1955 as a branch of the Moscow NII-17 by the Ministry of Aircraft Industry of the USSR Council of Ministers (Resolution N^o. 2436-1005, September 18, 1954). In February 1956, the NII-17 branch was reorganized into an independent enterprise known as Scientific Research Institute for Instrumentation, or NIIP. In 1994 the institute was named after his first CEO Viktor Tikhomirov.^[1]

At present, NIIP is an enterprise with an industrial and economic infrastructure.^{[citation needed]} The area occupied by the Institute is 42000 square meters.^{[citation needed]}

Products and developments

Radar Control Systems

• N007 Zaslon complex for MiG-31

Medium Range Air Defense Missile Systems

TEL of the 2P25 Kub with missiles erected

• 2K12 Kub missile system with 3M9 missile, 1958-1967 (Kvadrat export version) - NATO codename SA-6 "Gainful"
• Kub-M1 through Kub-M4 modifications
• 9К37 Buk missile system with 9M38 missile - NATO codename SA-11 "Gadfly"
• 9К37М1 Buk-M1 (most common) with 9M38M1 missile
• Ural (unfinished, only prototypes built) - NATO codename SA-17 "Grizzly"
• 9К317 Buk-M2 with 9M317 missile
• 9К37M1-2 Buk-M1-2 (Buk-M1 upgrade for the use of Buk-M2 missile)
• 9К317E Buk-M2E, recent export version of Buk-M2 ADM series featured at 2007 MAKS Airshow
• 9К317M Buk-M3, current version of Buk-M3 ADM series featured at 2013 MAKS Airshow

• ABM-1 Galosh

Aircraft Weapon Control Systems

MiG-31 'Foxhound' showing its Zaslon phased-array radar

• MiG-31 AWCS was the first that introduced an electronically scanned phased array antenna (in Soviet Army since 1981)
• SUV-27 (Russian: СУВ-27) AWCS for Su-27 and MiG-29, Su-30, Su-33, Su-35 and their modifications (developing process started in 1978)
• RLSU-27 (Russian: РЛСУ-27) AWCS for Su-27M is a multirole DSP radiolocator based on a slot antenna (developing process started in 1982)
• Radiolocator Targeting Complex Osa - Russian: РЛПК «Оса») - an AWCS for the light fighter jets like MiG-21, MiG-29, MiG-AT

Phased Array Antennas

• Pero passive phased array with electronic beam scanning
• Bars, Irbis, Byelka a new generation passive phased array antennas
• Epolet-A, an X-band active phased array antenna (currently on a prototype stage)

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  Irbis-E at 2009 MAKS Airshow
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  N036 Byelka AESA radar for PAK FA at 2009 MAKS Airshow
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  AESA L-band slat radar at 2009 MAKS Airshow
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  AESA X-band side radar at 2013 MAKS Airshow

Radar Seekers

• N001 radar

Civil Products

• an automated control, diagnostics and traffic safety system, universal control panel for Yauza and Rusich underground trains and passenger train cars
• Delta-Geon, a seismic signals registrator
• various OKO geological devices
• an explosives detector for checking baggage and carry-on luggage (capable of detecting substances such as RDX, HMX).
• HYDRA interferometric side-scan sonar

Notable employees

Heads of the institute

• March 1, 1955 - 1962 - Viktor Vasilievitch Tikhomirov
• 1962-1969 - Yuriy Nikolaevitch Figurovsky, Doctor in Engineering, professor, laureate of the Lenin award, Hero of Socialist Labour
• 1969-1973 - Sergey Afanasievitch Pecherin, laureate of the Lenin Prize and two orders of the Red Banner of Labour;
• 1973-1978 - Viktor Konstantinovitch Grishin, Doctor in Engineering, professor, laureate of the Lenin and State awards, Hero of the Socialist Labour
• 1978-1998 - Valentin Vasilievitch Matyashev, PhD in Engineering, professor, laureate of the Lenin Prize and the USSR State Prize
• since 1998 - Yuriy Ivanovitch Beliy, Honoured Radio Operator, Honoured Aircraft Engineer, member of the Scientific Technical Council of Rosoboronexport

Lead researchers and engineers

• Ardalion Rastov, designer of both Kub and Buk SAMs
• Eugeny Pigin [ru], chief designer of the institute

See also

• Phazotron-NIIR
• Vega Radio Engineering Corporation

References

1. "История АО "НИИП имени В.В. Тихомирова"" [History of the JSC "NIIP named after V. V. Tikhomirov"]. NIIP (in Russian). Retrieved 2024-05-25.

External links

• V.V. Tikhomirov Instrument Research and Development Institute, "The Golden Book of Moscow Business. The Year 2003"