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IWP Pinnow was the East German Instandsetzungswerk Pinnow, a National People's Army defense-industrial site in Pinnow near Angermünde that repaired missile, radar, radio, measuring, and communications equipment and later produced selected missile systems under license. Open sources connect the plant directly to the FASTA-4/FASTA-4M launcher family and to licensed 9M113 Konkurs anti-tank guided missile production.
1 weaponsThe Pinnow site developed from an NVA rocket-technology training and repair complex into one of Brandenburg's largest East German military-industrial workplaces. Local histories describe construction of a repair facility for special armament from 1962, the 1965 renaming to Instandsetzungswerk Pinnow, and a heavily controlled plant layout divided into security zones for different technical work areas. By the late 1960s the plant employed roughly 1,600 people and was important enough to receive dedicated housing and rail access for the workforce.
IWP's work sat at the maintenance-production boundary rather than resembling a single-product private company. Sources describe repair and maintenance of missiles and their control equipment, overhaul of radar, radio, measuring, and telecommunications systems, and licensed production of anti-tank missiles in the 1980s. A FASTA-4 launcher technical reference states that development and production of the four-round low-altitude air-defense launcher took place at IWP Pinnow in the German Democratic Republic.
Defense production stopped with the dissolution and conversion of East German military industry in 1990. Spektrum reported that East German plants that developed, produced, or maintained military equipment were ordered to stop work on 1 August 1990, and that Buck Werke took over the 270-hectare Pinnow industrial site on 31 July 1991 as Buck Inpar. The post-IWP site became associated with demilitarization, munitions disposal, and a local telephone and rocket museum preserving examples of former NVA missile technology.
The RWD technical catalog identifies FASTA-4 as a stationary or mobile four-round launcher for the 9K32 missile complex and states that development and production took place at IWP Pinnow in East Germany; the same page lists FASTA-4M, FASTA-4M1, and FASTA-4M2 modification numbers.
Sources: FASTA-4 technical catalog, Buck INPAR Pinnow museum archive
Spektrum reported that many of the missiles later demilitarized at Pinnow had been manufactured at the works, including 15,000 Konkurs guided missiles; a 1994 museum archive likewise describes the 9M113 Konkurs weapon system as license-produced at IWP.
Sources: Spektrum Pinnow conversion article, Buck INPAR Pinnow museum archiveA local history of the Pinnow industrial area says construction began in 1962 on a repair works for special armament, after the NVA had taken over the former military site in 1956.
Sources: Pinnow IWP local-history page
The same local account records the 1965 renaming to Instandsetzungswerk Pinnow, the name abbreviated as IWP in later sources on the plant and museum.
Sources: Pinnow IWP local-history page
Local and museum sources describe licensed anti-tank missile production at IWP in the 1980s, while Spektrum's post-conversion article gives the specific example of 15,000 Konkurs guided missiles manufactured at the works.
Sources: Pinnow IWP local-history page, Spektrum Pinnow conversion article, Buck INPAR Pinnow museum archive
Spektrum reported that East German companies developing, producing, or maintaining military equipment for the NVA or Warsaw Pact logistics were ordered to stop work on 1 August 1990; local Pinnow history likewise states that all arms production ended in 1990.
Sources: Spektrum Pinnow conversion article, Pinnow IWP local-history page
Spektrum reported that Buck Werke took over the 270-hectare Pinnow industrial site on 31 July 1991 under the Buck Inpar name, combining munitions disposal with attempted civilian conversion lines.
Sources: Spektrum Pinnow conversion article
The local museum page states that a works museum was created in House 9 of the Pinnow industrial area in 2005 and was later continued by the municipality as the Telefon- und Raketenmuseum Pinnow.
Sources: Telefon- und Raketenmuseum Pinnow
IWP Pinnow was a defunct East German state defense-industrial site, not a current company with an active corporate website. The available German local-history, museum, post-conversion, technical-reference, and rights-clear image sources support industrial context and product attribution rather than operational use.
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