Vega Radio Engineering Corporation

Vega Radio Engineering Corporation

Parent		UIMC (Rostec)
Website	vega.su

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Overview

The company has been founded as CKB-17 (

Vega's flagship product is the Tipchak mobile aerial system for reconnaissance and target designation. The system operates up to six UAVs launched from a pneumatic catapult. Each UAV has a range of 40 kilometers (25 mi) and a 3-hour endurance. It can provide targeting for artillery and theater-based ballistic missiles at distances up to 350 km (217 mi). The first Tipchak system entered service with the Russian Armed Forces in 2008.^{[citation needed]}

In 2007, the company's revenue was $185 million. Export share was 2.3% and share of civilian production was 10.2% The company is headquartered in Moscow and has 8,981 employees.^[2]

Founded in 1944 as The Moscow Scientific Research Institute of Instrument Engineering (MNIIP),^[3] the company has during its history developed radio electronic equipment, airborne radars for early warning and control systems, including that for the A-50 airplane; space- and airborne synthetic aperture radars for earth surveillance, including those for the Almaz spacecraft and the IMARK flying laboratory; multi- reflector precision antennas; super-accurate radiometers, doppler aircraft navigation sensors, medical equipment, computer-aided design systems, opto-electronic devices and other electronic means.^[4]

on March 1, 1955 as a branch of the Moscow NII-17 and reorganized into an independent structure in February 1956.

Structure

Includes a number of enterprises and scientific research institutes:

• Vega (Moscow)
• Vega branch at
  St. Petersburg
• Vega branch at Taganrog
• NII Kulon (research institute "Coulomb", development and creation of radar, Moscow)^[5]
• KB Luch (
  UAV design bureau, Rybinsk)^[6]
• RZP (radio factory, Rybinsk)
• NPP Rubin (auto control systems, tele- and radiocommunications, Penza)^[6]
• ChRZ Polet (radio factory, Chelyabinsk)^[6]
• IMC Vega (Engineering-Marketing Center, Moscow)
• VNII Etalon — liquidated, came to Sozvezdie 30 Dec. 2021^[7]
• MNIIS (research institute of communications, Moscow)^[6]
• NII Vector (radio research institute,
  St. Petersburg
  )
• AO Pilot Plant Integral (radio factory,
  St. Petersburg)^[6]
• AO Plant Energia (radio factory,
  St. Petersburg)^[6]
• AO DKBA (airships and balloons creation, Dolgoprudny)
• MNIRTI (radio research, Moscow)
• MRTI of Russian Academy of Sciences (radio research, Moscow)
• NIITAP (Institute of Technology and Production Automation, Zelenograd)^{[citation needed]}
• AO KNIITMU (communication equipment, Kaluga)
• NII Argon, SKB Topaz, NICEVT^{[citation needed]}

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