Russia: Delivery Vehicle Facilities: Dubna Machine-Building PlantRussia: Dubna Machine-Building Plant (DMZ)
LOCATION: Address: ulitsa Zhukovskogo
2, Dubna,
Moscow Oblast, 141980 Telephone:
(09621) 2-55-42, 5-15-21 Fax:
(09621) 2-32-99 Email: dmz@dubna.ru Homepage:http://www.dmz.ru ["Kak s nami
svyazatsya," Dubna
Machine-Building Plant Web Site,
http://www.dmz.ru/dmzev-ko.htm.]{Entered 4/22/02 MJ} ADMINISTRATION: General Director:
Viktor Mikhaylovich Frantsuzov ["Dubna
segodnyashnyaya - ATOLL i DMZ," City of Dubna Web Site, http://www.dubna.ru/.]]{Entered 4/22/02 MJ} STRUCTURE: Since 1994 DMZ has been an open joint
stock company with a number of subordinate enterprises. ["Khronologiya pereimenovaniy i preobrazovaniy," City of
Dubna Web Site,
http://www.dubna.ru/win.airplane/dmz-p3.htm.]
{Entered 4/22/02 MJ} BACKGROUND: DMZ traces its history to 1939,
when it was formed under the designation Branch of Plant No. 30, as a
seaplane manufacturing plant.[1] During World War II, under the leadership of Igor Chetverikov,
the plant produced a number of military seaplane types for the
Soviet Navy. Shortly after the war it participated in efforts to utilize
captured German technologies in the area of jet aircraft design and
propulsion. Following several changes of designation (Plant No. 30,
Developmental Plant No. 458, Developmental Plant No. 1, Plant No. 256), in
1966 it received its current name. In 1950 the plant was reoriented to
produce cruise missiles, starting with the KS [NATO designation AS-1
'Kennel'] air-launched anti-ship cruise missile designed by the MiG
design bureau. Although it has produced missiles designed by several design
bureaus, DMZ eventually became closely associated with Dubna-based
MKB Raduga,
and was responsible for series production of most of its designs.[2] Between
1972 and 1982, MKB Raduga
and DMZ were amalgamated into Raduga
Production and Design Association and later Raduga
Production Association.[3]
In addition to missiles, DMZ continued to engage in activities related to
aircraft manufacture. It participated in the construction of 2RS
experimental supersonic reconnaissance aircraft, produced a number of MiG-25
fighter subassemblies, and performed preliminary work on the experimental
Spiral space plane, which was cancelled in favor of the Buran
shuttle.[2]
DMZ has also been active in producing goods for civilian use, even
during the Soviet era. Between 1953 and 1990 DMZ reportedly produced 4.5
million baby strollers. DMZ also produced a range of furniture pieces,
satellite antennas, "black box" containers for the aviation industry and other
items, and industrial equipment for
light industry.[2] Sources: [1] "Dubninskiy mashzavod uvelichit vypusk produktsii po linii
gosoboronzakaza v shest raz," Agentstvo voyennykh novostey, 26 November
2001; in Universal Database of Military & Security Periodicals, http://online.eastview.com/. [2] "Osnovnyye obraztsy samoletov i raket, osvoyennyye proizvodstvom
Dubnenskogo mashinostroitelnogo zavoda v period 1951-1996 gg.," Dubna Machine-Building Plant Web Site,
http://www.dmz.ru/win/airplane/dmz-06-7.htm. [3] "Istoriya DMZ," Dubna City Web Site,
http://www.dubna/ru/win/airplane/dmz-p3.htm.{Entered 4/22/02 MJ}
ACTIVITIES: Although in the 1990s DMZ became
an open joint stock company, it remains mostly state-owned, with the government
controlling 60% of its stock. Since so much of its production was
military-oriented, the post-1991 sharp decrease in military orders severely
affected DMZ.[1]
However, DMZ may become one of the beneficiaries of the increased
emphasis placed in the Russian defense doctrine on conventional weapons,
including conventional air-launched precision-guided munitions, following
the 1999 Kosovo conflict. According to Russian press reports, in 2002 the
volume of state orders received by DMZ will increase six-fold. The increase
is attributed to a number of orders for repair and modernization work on
various cruise missile types, including the Kh-22 and Kh-55, received from the
Ministry of Defense. The new orders, which were received in 2001, led to an
increase of DMZ workforce to 1,200 workers.[1]
DMZ continues its close association with MKB Raduga,
and has been identified as the likely production facility for Raduga's Burlak SLV,
should it ever enter production.[2]
In the 1990s the plant began to produce light civilian aircraft. Types
produced at DMZ include the Su-29 civilian aerobatic aircraft and Shmel
and Dubna-2 civilian multipurpose utility aircraft.[3] DMZ is also
developing jointly with the
Taganrog-based SAU
concern the R-50 Robert passenger/cargo seaplane.[4]
Its current civilian production includes industrial equipment for use in
food processing and textile industry, sauna heaters, satellite communication
antennas, and other products.[5] Sources: [1] "Dubninskiy mashzavod uvelichit vypusk produktsii po linii
gosoboronzakaza v shest raz," Agentstvo voyennykh novostey, 26 November
2001; in Universal Database of Russian Military & Security Periodicals, http://online.eastview.com/. [2] Vladimir Ilyin, Yuriy Ponomarev, "Vse tsveta 'Radugi'," Vestnik
vozdushnogo flota online edition,
http://www.aviation.ru/Raduga/raduga.html,
4 July 1997. [3] Aleksandr Yegorov, "Problemam vysokotochnogo oruzhiya - osoboye
vnimaniye," Krasnaya zvezda, 9 June 1996; in Universal
Database of Russian Military &
Security Periodicals, http://online.eastview.com/. [4] "Dubna segodnyashnyaya - ATOLL i DMZ," City of Dubna Web Site,
http://www.dubna.ru/. [5] "Osnovnyye obraztsy i modifikatsii samoletov, raket, i tovarov narodnogo
potrebleniya (TNP) osvoyennyye proizvodstvom DMZ s 1951 g. po 1996 g., i ikh
tekhnologicheskiye osobennosty, City of Dubna Web Site,
http://www.dubna.ru/win/airplane/dmz-06-6.htm. {Entered 4/22/02 MJ}
DMZ DEVELOPMENTS:
12/1/2002: DMZ
TO UPGRADE KH-55 CRUISE MISSILE According to a 1 December 2002 report in
Jane's Defence Upgrades, DMZ will undertake the repair and upgrade of
the Kh-55 [NATO designation AS-15 'Kent'] cruise missile. The upgraded
missile, to be called the Kh-555, will incorporate the homing system
currently employed in the Kh-101 air-launched cruise missile (ALCM) produced
by MKB Raduga and will be equipped with conventional rather than nuclear
warheads.
[Piotr
Butowski, "Russia plans bomber fleet modernisation," Jane's Defence
Upgrades, 1 December 2002,
http://jdu.janes.com.]
{Entered 12/6/2002 EMC}
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