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Saratov Aggregate Plant

Saratov Aggregate Plant is a Russian defense-industrial manufacturer in Saratov associated with short-range air-defense combat vehicles, anti-tank missile systems, naval and tank-navigation equipment, and component work inside the High-Precision Systems/Rostec structure.

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Saratov Aggregate Plant began as a Soviet-era industrial plant serving tractor production and later moved into defense work, including wartime anti-tank-rifle production and postwar artillery, naval, navigation, and control-equipment programs.

For this catalog, the plant is most directly relevant as the documented production site for Strela-10 combat vehicles, with Kovrov Mechanical Plant separately associated with the missile portion of the system.

short-range air defense systemsanti-tank missile systemstank navigation equipmentnaval and vehicle control equipmentprecision weapon components

Notable Systems

9K35 Strela-10, Tracked short-range surface-to-air missile system, Air Defense

9K35 Strela-10

Tracked short-range surface-to-air missile system

National Defence University of Ukraine identifies Saratov Aggregate Plant as the site where serial production of Strela-10SV combat vehicles was organized.

Sources: Strela-10

Chrysanthemum-S and Sturm-SM

The War & Sanctions profile lists the plant as involved in production of these anti-tank missile systems.

Sources: War & Sanctions profile

Pantsir-S1 72V6 combat vehicle components

The War & Sanctions profile says the plant supplied frames, housings, covers, springs, and casings for turret-related Pantsir-S1 combat-vehicle assemblies.

Sources: War & Sanctions profile

Manufacturer History

  1. Founded for tractor-industry supply

    Industrial-directory history says the enterprise was created by a Soviet economic council decision to support the developing domestic tractor industry.

    Sources: Industrial history profile

  2. Wartime defense production

    During the Second World War, the plant shifted to anti-tank-rifle production using evacuated workers, engineers, and equipment from Tula arms plants, then moved to artillery-system production in 1944.

    Sources: Industrial history profile

  3. Navigation and naval-drive equipment

    The plant began producing KP-1M course plotters in 1959 and electric drives for RBU-1000 and RBU-6000 naval rocket launchers in 1961 as it moved toward instrument-making work.

    Sources: Industrial history profile

  4. Combat-vehicle programs

    The plant's defense-industrial history includes combat vehicles for the Shturm anti-tank missile system and later Strela-10 air-defense combat-vehicle production.

    Sources: Industrial history profile, Strela-10

  5. Joint-stock company registration

    The issuer disclosure profile lists the joint-stock company's state registration date as 14 July 2011.

    Sources: Issuer disclosure profile

Website links
Issuer disclosure profileWar & Sanctions profileIndustrial history profile

The plant is a Russian state-linked defense-industrial entity and is listed in sanctions-oriented sources. Older directories list oaosaz.ru as an official site, but that domain showed unrelated finance content when checked on 2026-06-21, so this profile uses the issuer disclosure page as the public website link.

Manufacturer Sources

  • Issuer disclosure profilePublisher: Association for the Protection of Information Rights of Investors | Note: Supports the legal name, JSC SAZ abbreviation, Saratov address, registration number, and 14 July 2011 registration date. | Accessed: 2026-06-21
  • War & Sanctions profilePublisher: Main Intelligence Directorate of the Ministry of Defence of Ukraine | Note: Supports Rostec/High-Precision Systems ownership context and product-family claims for ATGM, air-defense, tank-navigation, and Pantsir-S1 component work. | Accessed: 2026-06-21
  • Strela-10Publisher: National Defence University of Ukraine | Note: Supports the catalog-specific claim that Saratov Aggregate Plant produced Strela-10SV combat vehicles while Kovrov Mechanical Plant produced the missiles. | Accessed: 2026-06-21
  • Industrial history profilePublisher: Ibprom.ru | Note: Supports the 1930 founding date, Saratov defense-industrial background, older official-site listing, and historical production milestones; the page states its information was updated in 2016. | Accessed: 2026-06-21
  • Saratov Aggregate Plant imagePublisher: Wikimedia Commons | Note: Image provenance source for a Saratov Aggregate Plant building photograph; the file page identifies uploader IrinaYa as author and lists CC BY-SA 4.0 reuse terms. | Accessed: 2026-06-21

Produced weapons

Category

Air Defense

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

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9K35 Strela-10, Tracked short-range surface-to-air missile system, Air Defense2011 Syrian Civil War, 2020 Nagorno-Karabakh Conflict +1 more9K35 Strela-10Tracked short-range surface-to-air missile systemBuilt in: Soviet Union / RussiaThe 9K35 Strela-10, NATO reporting name SA-13 Gopher, is a Soviet tracked short-range air defense system mounted on an MT-LB chassis. Built to protect maneuver forces from low-flying aircraft, helicopters, cruise missiles, and UAVs, it remains visible in modern conflicts through Syrian battlefield captures, 2020 Nagorno-Karabakh losses, and Russian and Ukrainian counter-UAV use.
9K31 Strela-1, Vehicle-mounted short-range surface-to-air missile system, Air Defense1975 Western Sahara War, 1990 Gulf War +2 more9K31 Strela-1Vehicle-mounted short-range surface-to-air missile systemBuilt in: Soviet UnionThe 9K31 Strela-1, NATO reporting name SA-9 Gaskin, is a Soviet BRDM-2-based short-range surface-to-air missile system armed with four ready-to-fire 9M31 or 9M31M missiles. Developed as a regimental low-altitude air-defense vehicle for motor-rifle and tank units, it combined an amphibious armored chassis with optical/infrared missile engagement at short ranges. Open sources document it in several conflict inventories, including Polisario systems supplied by Libya, Iraqi Gulf War air defenses, Chechen inherited stocks, and Houthi-aligned holdings in Yemen; those rows indicate fielding or possession, not necessarily a sourced launch or shootdown.