The Scientific and Production Association Izhevsk Unmanned Systems (NPO IZHBS) of the Kalashnikov Concern will increase the production of unmanned aerial vehicles tenfold in 2024. Alan Lushnikov, President of Kalashnikov Concern JSC, assured Army General Sergei Shoigu of this during a visit by the Minister of Defense of the Russian Federation to the Izhevsk enterprise's production site.
The increase in production volumes of NPO IZHBS became possible due to the commissioning of a new production workshop with an area of 5,800 square meters. and the creation of 360 additional jobs. CNC machines are installed at the new production of UAVs, the number of machining machines has increased many times. Thanks to the commissioning of additional capacities, the company has all the resources to further increase production volumes.
NPO IZHBS performs work on time under the state defense order, has a closed production cycle and its own testing base, which allows for rapid testing of new types of weapons and military equipment with minimal involvement of third-party specialized organizations. The team of authors has developed complexes with unmanned aerial vehicles of reconnaissance and strike types, which, taking into account the experience of combat use, have been modernized in terms of increasing the strength and reliability of the structure. Today, the direction of civilian unmanned aircraft systems is actively developing, the designers of the enterprise are developing new unmanned aerial vehicles and guided barrage ammunition.
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