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Russian ordnance industry

Russian ordnance industry is the Russian state-linked ammunition, shell, bomb, fuze, and explosive-ordnance production base that inherited major Soviet munitions capacity and now operates through named concerns, arsenals, research institutes, and state corporations such as Rostec and Techmash.

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The Russian ordnance sector is not one incorporated company. Public sources describe a production base spread across ammunition concerns, component plants, design organizations, and export channels that handle artillery projectiles, mortar bombs, tank ammunition, aviation bombs, rocket artillery munitions, and special-chemistry work.

Rostec material identifies Techmash as part of the corporation and describes its companies as producing air ammunition, adapting grenade-launcher products from SPA Bazalt, and supporting licensed ammunition production abroad. Other Rostec releases place Techmash, Splav, NPO Pribor, and related organizations inside the weapons and ammunition exhibition base used for Russian defense exports.

The connected munition records use this sector-level attribution when cited sources support Russian or Soviet/Russian ordnance production but do not identify a narrower factory, plant, arsenal, or design bureau. Technical characteristics and any conflict-specific evidence remain tied to the individual weapon records.

artillery shells and projectilesmortar bombs and mortar ammunitionaviation bombstank and infantry fighting vehicle ammunitionrocket artillery munitionsexplosive ordnance and special chemistry

Notable Systems

FAB-250 bomb, 250 kg general-purpose bomb, Munitions

FAB-250 bomb

250 kg general-purpose bomb

Connected catalog record for a Soviet/Russian 250 kg general-purpose aviation-bomb family; open references treat FAB-series air bombs as Soviet/Russian ordnance, and the record separates the baseline free-fall bomb body from later fitted glide-kit configurations.

Sources: Weaponsystems.net FAB M62, GlobalSecurity FAB-250, Rostec Techmash ammunition release
203 mm shells for 2A44 howitzer, 203 mm separate-loading artillery ammunition family, Munitions

203 mm shells for 2A44 howitzer

203 mm separate-loading artillery ammunition family

Connected catalog record for the separate-loading 203 mm ammunition family used by 2S7 and 2S7M heavy guns, including high-explosive, rocket-assisted, cluster, concrete-piercing, and special-shell entries in public references.

Sources: 203mm shells for 2A44 howitzer
3UOF17 100 mm high-explosive round, 100 mm HE-Frag unitary round, Munitions

3UOF17 100 mm high-explosive round

100 mm HE-Frag unitary round

Connected catalog record for a Russian 100 mm high-explosive fragmentation round associated with the 2A70 gun family, included here as part of the Russian ordnance-sector ammunition set represented in the catalog.

Sources: 3UOF17 projectile, 100mm 2A70

Manufacturer History

  1. Post-Soviet ordnance inheritance

    Russia inherited a large share of Soviet munitions design, production, and stockpile infrastructure after the Soviet Union dissolved, leaving later Russian ordnance production linked to Soviet-era plants and ammunition families.

    Sources: DRDC Russian defence industrial base

  2. Techmash umbrella displayed abroad

    Rostec's IDEX 2013 release described NPO Splav as a Techmash division and said other companies under the Techmash umbrella displayed aerial bombs, close-combat equipment, jamming countermeasures, and Osa tubeless weapon systems.

    Sources: Rostec IDEX 2013 press release

  3. Rostec describes Techmash ammunition role

    Rostec reported that Techmash companies produced a wide range of air ammunition and that Rostec's conventional weapons, ammunition, and special-chemistry cluster supported licensed ammunition production and international technology partnerships.

    Sources: Rostec Techmash ammunition release

  4. Open-source estimates show high munition output

    Modern War Institute summarized a 2026 Estonian intelligence estimate that Russian factories produced about seven million artillery, mortar, tank, infantry fighting vehicle, and rocket rounds in 2025, while noting that these were estimates rather than audited production logs.

    Sources: Modern War Institute munitions throughput

Predecessors
Soviet ordnance industry
Website links
Rostec weapons industry pageRostec Techmash ammunition releaseRosoboronexport air bombs catalogModern War Institute munitions throughput analysis

Russian ordnance production is a sector-level attribution rather than a single public corporation. Official Russian sources emphasize export and industrial achievements, while third-party estimates and sanctions-era reporting are incomplete; weapon pages should be used for exact system specifications and conflict-use evidence.

Manufacturer Sources

  • Rostec Techmash ammunition releasePublisher: Rostec | Note: Supports Techmash's role inside Rostec, Rostec's conventional weapons, ammunition, and special-chemistry cluster, air-ammunition production, Bazalt grenade-launcher adaptation context, and licensed ammunition-production background. | Accessed: 2026-07-11
  • Rostec IDEX 2013 press releasePublisher: Rostec | Note: Supports Techmash umbrella context, NPO Splav's role as a multiple-launch rocket manufacturer and Techmash division, and exhibition of aerial bombs and other ordnance-related designs by Techmash companies. | Accessed: 2026-07-11
  • Rostec Army 2020 exhibition releasePublisher: Rostec | Note: Supports broader Russian defense-industrial context by identifying Techmash, TsNIItochmash, Splav, and other Rostec holding companies among exhibitors of artillery systems, ammunition, small arms, military equipment, and special equipment. | Accessed: 2026-07-11
  • Rosoboronexport FAB-500 M-62Publisher: Rosoboronexport | Note: Supports official Russian export-catalog context for FAB-series high-explosive aircraft bombs and their public technical framing. | Accessed: 2026-07-11
  • 203mm shells for 2A44 howitzerPublisher: WeaponSystems.net | Note: Supports the connected 203 mm 2A44 ammunition-family notable system, including Soviet/Russian origin, producer-country context, projectile families, and 2S7/2S7M compatibility. | Accessed: 2026-07-11
  • Weaponsystems.net FAB M62Publisher: WeaponSystems.net | Note: Supports the connected FAB-250 bomb notable system as part of the Soviet/Russian FAB M62 bomb family and provides background on the 250 kg-class M62 variant. | Accessed: 2026-07-11
  • GlobalSecurity FAB-250Publisher: GlobalSecurity.org | Note: Supports the connected FAB-250 bomb notable system as a Soviet/Russian general-purpose aviation-bomb family. | Accessed: 2026-07-11
  • Rosoboronexport land forces catalogPublisher: Rosoboronexport | Note: Supports official export-catalog background for Russian land-forces missile, rocket-artillery, field-artillery, and mortar systems used to contextualize cataloged Russian ammunition families. | Accessed: 2026-07-11
  • 3UOF17 projectilePublisher: Fenix Insight | Note: Supports the connected 3UOF17 notable system as a 100 mm HE-Frag unitary round associated with BMP-3, BMD-4, and BTR-90M family platforms and Russian manufacturing-country context. | Accessed: 2026-07-11
  • 100mm 2A70Publisher: WeaponSystems.net | Note: Supports the connected 3UOF17 notable system through the 2A70 ammunition table listing 3UOF17 and related 100 mm HE-Frag rounds. | Accessed: 2026-07-11
  • Modern War Institute munitions throughputPublisher: Modern War Institute at West Point | Note: Supports recent third-party context on Russian artillery, mortar, tank, infantry fighting vehicle, and rocket-round production estimates and the caveat that these figures are estimates rather than audited production logs. | Accessed: 2026-07-11
  • DRDC Russian defence industrial basePublisher: Defence Research and Development Canada | Note: Supports background on Russia's inheritance of Soviet-era industrial capacity and defense technology after the Soviet period. | Accessed: 2026-07-11
  • Commons FAB-250 M62 PhotoPublisher: Wikimedia Commons | Note: Supports image provenance and CC BY-SA 4.0 licensing for the FAB-250 M62 display photograph. | Accessed: 2026-07-11

Produced weapons

Category

Munitions

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

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3OF36 mortar bomb, 120 mm high-explosive fragmentation mortar bomb, Munitions2014 Russia-Ukraine War3OF36 mortar bomb120 mm high-explosive fragmentation mortar bombBuilt in: Soviet Union / RussiaThe 3OF36 is a Soviet/Russian 120 mm high-explosive fragmentation mortar bomb used in 3VOF57 and 3VOF69 mortar rounds for Soviet-family 120 mm mortars. Most public references document it through ammunition tables and compatibility with 120-PM-43, PM-43, and 2S12/2B11-family weapons, while the narrow conflict-use evidence currently supports only Ukrainian improvised explosive-device use during the 2014 Russia-Ukraine War.
120 mm smoke ammunition, 120 mm smoke ammunition for rifled gun-mortars, Munitions120 mm smoke ammunition120 mm smoke ammunition for rifled gun-mortarsBuilt in: Soviet Union / Russia / Czech Republic120 mm smoke ammunition is a mortar and gun-mortar ammunition class used to build short-duration obscurant screens rather than to deliver direct explosive effects. Forecast International lists smoke among the 120 mm ammunition types fired by the 2A60 Nona rifled ordnance on the 2S23 Nona-SVK, while Army Recognition describes the tracked 2S9 Nona as firing smoke rounds in its indirect-fire role. Modern 120 mm smoke products from STV GROUP, Nammo, and Hirtenberger show the class spanning visible and infrared screening, red-phosphorus payloads, white-phosphorus smoke, and other smoke fills depending on the round.
203 mm shells for 2A44 howitzer, 203 mm separate-loading artillery ammunition family, Munitions2014 Russia-Ukraine War203 mm shells for 2A44 howitzer203 mm separate-loading artillery ammunition familyBuilt in: Soviet Union / Russian FederationThe 203 mm shells for the 2A44 howitzer are the Soviet separate-loading ammunition family for 2S7 Pion and 2S7M Malka heavy guns. Public references distinguish standard 3OF43 high-explosive fragmentation projectiles, 3OF44 rocket-assisted projectiles, 3O14 cluster shells, concrete-piercing and special-shell designs, plus current Russian OF43/OF44 use and Ukrainian 203 mm ammunition use in the Russia-Ukraine War.