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Russia denotes the Russian Federation's state-directed defense-industrial base when open sources identify national Russian production, export promotion, or state ammunition manufacture without naming a single plant. The sector spans government policy bodies, state-owned corporations, design bureaus, arsenals, and export agencies that inherited much of the Soviet industrial base.
1 weaponsRussia's defense-industrial base is organized through a mix of federal policy control, state corporations, and specialized enterprises. The Ministry of Industry and Trade is the federal body responsible for industrial policy and regulation, while Rostec describes its purpose as developing, producing, and exporting high-technology industrial products through more than 800 companies across 60 Russian regions.
Russian arms exports are channeled through Rosoboronexport, which describes itself as the sole state-owned intermediary for exporting and importing final military and dual-use products, technologies, and services. SIPRI data show that Russia remains a major arms exporter even as its export share fell sharply in 2020-24, reflecting sanctions, wartime demand, and changes in customer deliveries.
For catalog purposes, this state-level manufacturer label is reserved for cases where the reliable source trail supports Russian national production or state export presentation but does not support a more precise enterprise name. When a source identifies a plant, bureau, or corporation, that narrower manufacturer should be preferred.
A Russian 152 mm base-eject cargo projectile associated with Msta-family artillery ammunition; CAT-UXO identifies the 3-O-23/O-23 as a Russian submunition carrier projectile, and the catalog record preserves the more detailed ammunition-family sourcing.
Sources: CAT-UXO 152mm O 23 Projectile
A Russian 152 mm self-propelled artillery system family represented in Rosoboronexport's land-forces catalog through 2S19M1 Msta-S export variants, with existing catalog coverage for the weapon family and its conflict-use records.
Sources: Rosoboronexport 2S19M1 Msta-SAfter the dissolution of the Soviet Union, the Russian Federation retained a large share of Soviet-era design bureaus, arsenals, shipyards, aviation plants, and ammunition production capacity. SIPRI describes the post-1991 Russian arms industry as a contracted but still large successor to the Soviet military-industrial structure.
Sources: SIPRI Russian Arms Industry Background
Rosoboronexport traces its present role to the Russian state's consolidation of military-technical export functions and describes itself as the sole state-owned intermediary for the export and import of final military and dual-use products, technologies, and services.
Sources: Rosoboronexport About
Rostec's history places the state corporation's creation in 2007 and its official material describes a broad industrial group focused on developing, producing, and exporting high-technology industrial products through hundreds of companies in Russian regions.
Sources: Rostec About, Rostec History
SIPRI's 2024 arms-transfer fact sheet reports that Russian major-arms exports decreased by 64 percent between 2015-19 and 2020-24, leaving Russia as the world's third-largest exporter behind the United States and France for that period.
Sources: SIPRI Trends in International Arms Transfers 2024
Some Soviet/Russian munitions and export references identify national origin or Russian state presentation without naming a producing plant. More specific enterprise attribution should be preferred when reliable sources identify the plant, bureau, or corporation.
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Standalone missiles, bombs, rockets, torpedoes, and guided or unguided explosive payloads.