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Kolomna Machine-Building Design Bureau

Kolomna Machine-Building Design Bureau is the Kolomna-based Russian missile design and production enterprise commonly associated with KBM and JSC NPK KBM in public sources. Its institutional history runs from a 1942 special design bureau for wartime mortar work into Soviet and Russian guided-weapon programs, including man-portable air-defense systems, anti-tank guided missiles, active-protection systems, and tactical missile complexes.

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Rostec histories date the bureau to an April 11, 1942 State Defense Committee decision that created a special design bureau for smoothbore artillery in Kolomna under Boris Shavyrin. After the Second World War, the organization continued mortar and recoilless-rifle work before shifting toward rocket and missile systems in the 1950s and 1960s.

The design bureau's public product history spans several major Soviet and Russian missile families. Rostec identifies Strela, Igla, and Verba MANPADS, Ataka and Khrizantema-S anti-tank systems, and Iskander-M as prominent Kolomna programs, while Ukrainian sanctions records describe the current legal entity as part of High Precision Systems within Rostec and connect it to mortars, MANPADS, anti-tank systems, tactical missile systems, and several named missile families.

Man-portable air-defense missile systemsAnti-tank guided missile systemsTactical and operational-tactical missile systemsActive-protection systems for armored vehiclesMortar and recoilless-rifle legacy programs

Notable Systems

SA-14 Strela-3 MANPADS, Man-portable infrared surface-to-air missile system, Air Defense

SA-14 Strela-3 MANPADS

Man-portable infrared surface-to-air missile system

Rostec places Strela-3 in the Kolomna MANPADS line after Strela-2, and the catalog record covers the 9K34 / 9M36 system under its SA-14 designation.

Sources: Rostec 80th Anniversary History, GlobalSecurity Kolomna Profile
9M120 Ataka, Radio-command anti-tank guided missile, Munitions

9M120 Ataka

Radio-command anti-tank guided missile

Rostec describes Ataka as the follow-on missile that appeared after the Shturm family, while an archived KBM product page documents ATAKA-T missile variants and technical characteristics.

Sources: Rostec 80th Anniversary History, Archived KBM ATAKA-T Product Page

Manufacturer History

  1. Special design bureau created in Kolomna

    Rostec dates the organization to an April 11, 1942 decision establishing a special design bureau for smoothbore artillery in Kolomna, with Boris Shavyrin as its first leader.

    Sources: Rostec 80th Anniversary History

  2. Shift toward missile systems

    Rostec and GlobalSecurity both describe a postwar transition from mortar work toward guided missile systems, with the bureau moving into anti-tank missile development before later MANPADS and tactical missile programs.

    Sources: Rostec Systems Overview, GlobalSecurity Kolomna Profile

  3. Strela MANPADS line begins

    Rostec describes Strela-2 as KBM's first shoulder-fired air-defense system and traces later Kolomna MANPADS development through Strela-3, Igla, Igla-S, and Verba.

    Sources: Rostec Systems Overview, Rostec 80th Anniversary History

  4. Ataka missile appears after Shturm

    Rostec dates the appearance of the Ataka missile to 1996 as a more powerful successor direction after the Shturm anti-tank missile family.

    Sources: Rostec 80th Anniversary History

  5. Iskander-M accepted into Russian service

    Rostec states that the Iskander-M operational-tactical missile complex, developed at Kolomna, was accepted into service in 2006 and became a core Russian Ground Forces missile system.

    Sources: Rostec 80th Anniversary History

Website links
KBM official websiteRostec 80th anniversary historyRostec systems overviewWar & Sanctions entity recordGlobalSecurity Kolomna profile

Public sources often use overlapping English renderings and abbreviations for the Kolomna enterprise. This profile avoids adding those alternate labels as aliases because this catalog already has separate published manufacturer records for KBM, KBM Kolomna, and KB Mashinostroyeniya.

Manufacturer Sources

  • Rostec 80th Anniversary HistoryPublisher: Rostec | Note: Supports the 1942 founding date, Kolomna location, major system families, Strela-3 timeline, Ataka timeline, Iskander-M service-entry context, and current High Precision Systems/Rostec framing. | Accessed: 2026-07-11
  • Rostec Systems OverviewPublisher: Rostec | Note: Supports the bureau's movement from mortar work into anti-tank, MANPADS, and tactical missile programs, including Strela, Igla, Verba, Khrizantema-S, Tochka, Oka, and Iskander. | Accessed: 2026-07-11
  • Ukraine War & Sanctions JSC NPK KBM RecordPublisher: Main Intelligence Directorate of the Ministry of Defence of Ukraine | Note: Supports the current legal-entity address in Kolomna, Russian country attribution, High Precision Systems/Rostec ownership chain, and product-category summary. | Accessed: 2026-07-11
  • GlobalSecurity Kolomna ProfilePublisher: GlobalSecurity.org | Note: Supports English-language background on the Kolomna design bureau, its 1942 origin, guided-missile transition, major product families, and association with High Precision Systems. | Accessed: 2026-07-11
  • Archived KBM ATAKA-T Product PagePublisher: Kolomna Machine-Building Design Bureau via Internet Archive | Note: Supports official KBM product context for ATAKA-T missile variants, guidance, range, penetration, and carrier compatibility. | Accessed: 2026-07-11

Produced weapons

Category

Air Defense

Systems that contest aircraft, missiles, helicopters, and drones.

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SA-14 Strela-3 MANPADS, Man-portable infrared surface-to-air missile system, Air Defense2020 Nagorno-Karabakh ConflictSA-14 Strela-3 MANPADSMan-portable infrared surface-to-air missile systemBuilt in: Soviet Union / RussiaThe SA-14 Strela-3, Soviet designation 9K34, is a shoulder-fired infrared MANPADS developed as an improved successor to the Strela-2. In the Nagorno-Karabakh context, open-source arms-transfer reporting places Strela-3 launchers in Azerbaijan's inventory before the 2020 war, making it part of the legacy short-range air-defense layer even where specific firing claims are not documented.

Category

Munitions

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

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9M120 Ataka, Radio-command anti-tank guided missile, Munitions2014 Russia-Ukraine War, 2011 Syrian Civil War9M120 AtakaRadio-command anti-tank guided missileBuilt in: RussiaThe 9M120 Ataka is a Soviet/Russian anti-tank guided missile family developed from the 9M114 Shturm for helicopter and vehicle launch. Its radio-command SACLOS guidance, 6 km baseline range, tandem HEAT and specialist warhead options place it between legacy Shturm missiles and newer Russian helicopter-launched weapons; documented use includes Russian helicopter employment in Ukraine and Syria.