Soyuz Scientific Production Association
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| Type | Open Joint Stock Company |
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| Founded | 1943 |
| Headquarters | , Russia |
| Website | www |
Soyuz Scientific Production Association (Russian: Московское научно-производственное предприятие (МНПК) "Союз") is a company based in Moscow, Russia.
The Moscow Soyuz Scientific Production Complex was founded by Alexander Mikulin as an experimental design bureau in 1943. Mikulin's wartime engine designs powered MiG-3 interceptors and Il-2 Shturmovik attack aircraft. Sergei Tumansky succeeded Mikulin as general director of the design bureau in 1956.[1]
As the Tumanskiy OKB, the bureau produced designs for the RD-9 (used in the MiG-19 Farmer), the // (used in the many variants of the MiG-21 Fishbed), the (used in the Su-25 Frogfoot), the R-15 (used in the MiG-25 Foxbat), the auxiliary power unit, the /R-29 (used in the MiG-23/27 Flogger), and the (intended as the main thrust engine in the Yak-141 Freestyle). The engines designed by MNPK Soyuz are built by the and other plants.[1]
References[]
- ^ a b "Russian Defense Business Directory". Federation of American Scientists. US Department of Commerce Bureau of Export Administration. May 1995. Retrieved 21 July 2017.
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