Private company

Tikhomirov Scientific Research Institute of Instrument Design

Russian developer of weaponry control systems

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.2 It employed 2,109 people.1 Its revenue was ₽2.7 billion.1 It is part of Almaz-Antey.1 Wikipedia text CC BY-SA 4.0

Last updated Oct 20, 2026.

Overview

1955Founded1
  • Industryaerospace industry, radio electronics1
  • HeadquartersZhukovsky1
  • Websitewww.niip.ru
  • Legal formjoint-stock company, open joint-stock company1

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Tikhomirov NIIP 2019-02
Photo: Apetrov09703, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons4

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.2

Corporate structure

Tikhomirov Scientific Research Institute of Instrument Design is part of a group headed by Almaz-Antey. 19 entities, 1 country on record. Switch between the flow chart and the network, and select any entity to see its details.

Built from subsidiaries, stakes and holdings from Wikidata (CC0); major holders from Schedules 13D and 13G. Each entity in the chart links to its source.

The story

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 No. 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.

At present, NIIP is an enterprise with an industrial and economic infrastructure. The area occupied by the Institute is 42000 square meters.

From Wikipedia’s article on Tikhomirov Scientific Research Institute of Instrument Design, shared under CC BY-SA 4.0.3

Products and brands

  • radar
  • surface-to-air missile system

Listed on Wikidata.1

Radar Control Systems

N007 Zaslon complex for MiG-31

Medium Range Air Defense Missile Systems

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"

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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 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)

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

From Wikipedia’s article on Tikhomirov Scientific Research Institute of Instrument Design, shared under CC BY-SA 4.0.3

Subsidiaries and ownership

Parent company

From Wikidata.1

Timeline

  1. 1955Founded Founded1

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