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Kirov Machine-Building Plant

Kirov Machine-Building Plant identifies the Kirov missile-production line associated with Soviet Osa-family surface-to-air missiles and the later Almaz-Antey Kirov Machine-Building Enterprise. Public reference data attributes production of the 9M33 Osa missile family to the Soviet Union's Kirov Machine-Building Plant, while Russian regional and defense-industry reporting describes a newer Kirov plant built by Almaz-Antey for guided surface-to-air missile production before its legal absorption into VMP Avitek at the end of 2021.

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The name covers two closely related public-source contexts. For legacy catalog records, Kirov Machine-Building Plant is the production attribution used by WeaponSystems.net for the 9M33 missile family fired by land-based 9K33 Osa vehicles and naval Osa-M point-defense systems. For contemporary Russian industry context, Kirov Machine-Building Enterprise was a Kirov-based Almaz-Antey missile plant built in 2012-2016 on or near the Avitek industrial site.

Russian local reporting tied KMP's construction to a presidential decision, described the plant as a modern Almaz-Antey production site, and said the plant was designed to work in tight production cooperation with VMP Avitek. By late 2021, reporting from Kirov stated that KMP would be joined to Avitek, KMP would cease as a separate legal entity, and the combined operation would continue under the VMP Avitek name from 1 January 2022.

surface-to-air missilesOsa-family missile productionAlmaz-Antey missile manufacturingair-defense industrial cooperation

Notable Systems

9M33 Osa, Command-guided short-range surface-to-air missile family, Munitions

9M33 Osa missile family

Command-guided short-range surface-to-air missile family

WeaponSystems.net identifies the Soviet Union's Kirov Machine-Building Plant as producer of the 9M33 surface-to-air missile family, with production beginning in the early 1970s and variants used by land-based and naval Osa systems.

Sources: 9M33 Osa
9M33 Osa, Command-guided short-range surface-to-air missile family, Munitions

9M33M2 and 9M33M3 Osa-AK/Osa-AKM missile rounds

Command-guided short-range surface-to-air missile family

The later canistered 9M33M2 and 9M33M3 rounds are part of the same Kirov-attributed 9M33 family; WeaponSystems.net links them to the 1975 Osa-AK and 1980 Osa-AKM configurations.

Sources: 9M33 Osa

Manufacturer History

  1. 9M33 missile production context

    WeaponSystems.net places 9M33 production from the early 1970s and attributes producer information to the Soviet Union's Kirov Machine-Building Plant.

    Sources: 9M33 Osa

  2. New Kirov missile plant built

    Kirov reporting stated that KMP was built by Almaz-Antey after a 2012 decision and completed in 2016 as a modern machine-building site intended to cooperate closely with Avitek.

    Sources: Avitek: single plant in the new year

  3. Kirov Almaz-Antey production opened

    Regional and industry reporting described the opening of a new Almaz-Antey Kirov Machine-Building Enterprise production facility in February 2016 for modern air-defense missile production.

    Sources: Almaz-Antey will build new facility, Production of S-500 and S-400 systems

  4. KMP joined to VMP Avitek

    Local reporting said the legal joining of KMP to Avitek was expected on 30 December 2021, after which the separate KMP legal entity would be liquidated and the combined plant would operate as VMP Avitek.

    Sources: Avitek: single plant in the new year

Successors
VMP Avitek
Website links
VMP Avitek official siteArchived VMP Avitek siteWeaponSystems.net 9M33 Osa

Public sources mix a legacy Soviet producer label for 9M33 Osa missiles with the later Russian Almaz-Antey Kirov Machine-Building Enterprise. The abbreviation KMP is omitted from aliases because another published manufacturer profile already owns that alias.

Manufacturer Sources

  • 9M33 OsaPublisher: WeaponSystems.net | Note: Supports the Kirov Machine-Building Plant producer attribution for the 9M33 family, the Osa launch-platform relationships, and the later 9M33M2/9M33M3 variant context. | Accessed: 2026-07-11
  • Avitek: single plant in the new yearPublisher: BNKirov | Note: Supports the 2012-2016 KMP construction context, Almaz-Antey ownership, close production cooperation with Avitek, and the planned 30 December 2021 legal joining of KMP to Avitek. | Accessed: 2026-07-11
  • Almaz-Antey to complete merger of Kirov Avitek and KMP in 2021Publisher: Interfax Russia | Note: Supports the Almaz-Antey Kirov KMP/Avitek relationship and the KMP assembly-shop context for transport-launch containers. | Accessed: 2026-07-11
  • Almaz-Antey will build new facilityPublisher: Russian Aviation | Note: Supports reporting that Almaz-Antey was preparing the Kirov Machine Building Plant as a missile-production facility for advanced air-defense systems. | Accessed: 2026-07-11
  • Production of S-500 and S-400 systemsPublisher: Russian Aviation | Note: Supports industry reporting that the Kirov machine-building enterprise was built by Almaz-Antey and associated with large-scale guided missile production capacity. | Accessed: 2026-07-11
  • VMP Avitek company recordPublisher: Defence Intelligence of Ukraine War & Sanctions portal | Note: Supports the successor Avitek address, product-area context including surface-to-air guided missiles and target missiles, and the post-merger entity context. | Accessed: 2026-07-11
  • Archived VMP Avitek official sitePublisher: VMP Avitek via Internet Archive | Note: Archived official site capture supporting the Avitek successor site's Kirov address and post-merger public web presence. | Accessed: 2026-07-11

Produced weapons

Category

Munitions

Standalone missiles, bombs, rockets, torpedoes, and guided or unguided explosive payloads.

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9M33 Osa, Command-guided short-range surface-to-air missile family, Munitions2011 Syrian Civil War9M33 OsaCommand-guided short-range surface-to-air missile familyBuilt in: Soviet UnionThe 9M33 Osa is the Soviet command-guided missile family fired by land-based 9K33 Osa vehicles and naval M-4 Osa-M point-defense launchers. The family spans exposed-rail early rounds, naval 9M33M/9M33M1 missiles, canistered 9M33M2 rounds for Osa-AK vehicles, and the later 9M33M3 missile associated with Osa-AKM. Direct conflict evidence is narrow but present: Bellingcat documented Jaish al-Islam launches of 9M33 missiles from captured Osa systems during the Syrian Civil War.