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Nizhny Novgorod Television Plant (NITEL) is a Russian radio-electronics and radar manufacturer in Nizhny Novgorod. The plant traces its industrial history to First World War-era telephone and radio-equipment production, then moved into radar work after a 1946 government assignment. Open radar references identify NITEL and its Soviet-era Gorky Television Plant predecessor as production sites for long-range VHF air-surveillance radars including P-14/Oborona, Nebo, Nebo-U, and Nebo-SV family systems.
3 weaponsNITEL's public history places the enterprise in the Prioksky district of Nizhny Novgorod and describes a shift from telephones, radio sets, and wartime communications equipment into radar production after the Second World War. GlobalSecurity's industry profile says the plant presented P-3A radar samples in 1947, had that radar commissioned in 1948, and then serially produced a long list of Soviet and Russian radar stations.
The plant's manufacturer role is separate from the Nizhny Novgorod Research Institute of Radio Engineering design lineage that appears on many radar records. For catalog purposes, NITEL is used when sources identify the Gorky Television Factory, NITEL JSC, or Nizhny Novgorod Television Plant as the production plant or serial-production site for a radar system.
Vestnik PVO identifies serial production of the 1L13 Nebo-SV radar as organized at the Gorky Television Plant named after V. I. Lenin, later associated with the NITEL name.
Sources: Vestnik PVO Nebo-SV profile
Open Nebo-family references identify the Gorky/Nizhny Novgorod radar industry and NITEL production context for the Nebo line; the catalog record uses NITEL for the 55Zh6U Nebo-U production attribution.
Sources: GlobalSecurity Nebo profile
GlobalSecurity's NITEL profile lists 5N84 and 5N84A among radar stations serially produced by PJSC NITEL after the plant entered radar production.
Sources: GlobalSecurity NITEL profileGlobalSecurity's NITEL profile says the first stone for the plant was laid on August 1, 1915, when the enterprise was intended to make telephone, telegraph, radio-telegraph, and other electrical equipment for the Russian army.
Sources: GlobalSecurity NITEL profile
After the Second World War, the plant received a March 1946 government assignment to develop and manufacture mobile radar stations, beginning the radar-production strand that later defined its air-defense catalog role.
Sources: GlobalSecurity NITEL profile
GlobalSecurity reports that P-3A radar samples were presented for tests in 1947 and that the station was commissioned in the Soviet Army in August 1948.
Sources: GlobalSecurity NITEL profile
GlobalSecurity's Nebo profile says the 55Zh6 Nebo radar was put into service in 1982 and was produced by the Gorky Television Factory, identified there as NITEL JSC in Nizhny Novgorod.
Sources: GlobalSecurity Nebo profile
GlobalSecurity describes a new stage beginning in 2003, when shareholders of Association Bank, founded by the Nizhny Novgorod Association of Industrialists and Entrepreneurs, came to the plant after a difficult period caused by reduced state orders.
Sources: GlobalSecurity NITEL profile
The plant appears in sources under Soviet-era Gorky Television Factory/Plant labels, post-Soviet NITEL labels, and Russian-language AO/PAO NITEL forms. Several radar records also involve NNIIRT as designer, so manufacturer prose here is limited to production and plant-history claims directly supported by sources.
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Systems that contest aircraft, missiles, helicopters, and drones.
