ST-68U / 19Zh6
GlobalSecurity's Iskra profile describes ST-68U / 19Zh6 as a three-coordinate radar developed at Iskra in the Soviet period and links the 1982 state award to its development and serial mastery.
Sources: GlobalSecurity Iskra profileManufacturer archive
Research and Production Complex Iskra Weapon Systems
Research and Production Complex Iskra is a Ukrainian radar developer and manufacturer in Zaporizhzhia. Open defense-industry sources describe Iskra as a state-owned Ukroboronprom enterprise with a full radar production cycle and a product line spanning air-surveillance, air-defense, counter-battery, and electronic-warfare systems.
1 weapon systemsResearch and Production Complex Iskra is a Ukrainian state radar enterprise associated with air-surveillance and air-defense sensors. Its catalog role centers on Soviet-legacy radar modernization and Ukrainian 3D radar systems such as the 36D6M family.
The profile uses Iskra for Ukrainian-developed, Ukrainian-modernized, or Ukrainian-supported radar systems where sources identify the enterprise rather than treating Soviet-era and post-Soviet designations as a single manufacturer.
Notable Systems
35D6 / 36D6M family
Defense Express identifies 36D6M as an Iskra Ukrainian upgrade of Soviet-legacy 35D6 technology and says it was being fielded to Ukrainian military units in 2021.
Sources: Defense Express Iskra radar demonstrationManufacturer History
Zaporizhzhia enterprise established
GlobalSecurity traces Iskra's history to the August 1959 creation of the Zaporizhzhia Mobile Power Plant before radar work began in the early 1960s.
Sources: GlobalSecurity Iskra profile
ST-68U radar adopted
GlobalSecurity describes the ST-68U / 19Zh6 as a new-generation three-coordinate radar adopted in 1980 and associated with Iskra development work.
Sources: GlobalSecurity Iskra profile
Scientific and Production Complex formed
GlobalSecurity says Ukraine's Cabinet of Ministers merged the Iskra design bureau and electric machinery plant into the Scientific and Production Complex Iskra in 2003.
Sources: GlobalSecurity Iskra profile
Presidential visit to radar production
Ukraine's presidential website reported that President Volodymyr Zelenskyy visited the Iskra enterprise in Zaporizhzhia and inspected radar-system production.
Sources: President of Ukraine Iskra visit
The enterprise appears in English sources under several transliterated names and state-enterprise forms. This profile uses Research and Production Complex Iskra as the canonical catalog name while preserving common Iskra/NVK/SPC aliases for lookup.
Manufacturer Sources
- Official websitePublisher: Research and Production Complex Iskra | Note: Supports the current official web presence for Iskra. | Accessed: 2026-07-02
- GlobalSecurity Iskra profilePublisher: GlobalSecurity.org | Note: Supports Iskra identity, Zaporizhzhia radar-production background, complete radar production cycle, ST-68U/19Zh6 development context, and 35D6 lineage. | Accessed: 2026-07-02
- President of Ukraine Iskra visitPublisher: Office of the President of Ukraine | Note: Supports Iskra as a state-owned Ukroboronprom enterprise in Zaporizhzhia and documents presidential inspection of radar-system production. | Accessed: 2026-07-02
- Defense Express Iskra radar demonstrationPublisher: Defense Express | Note: Supports Iskra radar product context, including 36D6M as a Ukrainian upgrade of 35D6 technology and Iskra's broader air-defense radar portfolio. | Accessed: 2026-07-02
