KBP Instrument Design Bureau
| Company type | Joint-stock company |
|---|---|
| Industry | Arms industry |
| Predecessor | Instrument Design Bureau OKB |
| Founded | 1927 |
| Founder | Pavel Petrovich Tretyakov |
| Headquarters | , |
Key people | D. Konoplev Managing Director N. Khokhlov Chief Engineer, First Deputy General Director |
| Products | Small arms, ammunition, ATGMs, anti-aircraft, autocannons, rotary cannonss, CIWS, shells, precision-guided munitions, grenade launcherss |
| ₽14 billion | |
Number of employees | 8,600 (2015) |
| Parent | High Precision Systems (Rostec) |
| Website | www.kbptula.ru |
KBP Instrument Design Bureau is a Russian firearms manufacturer located in Tula. It is one of the main enterprises in the Russian defense industry and a major weapons supplier for the Russian Armed Forces. KBP produces small arms, autocannons, grenade launchers, and anti-tank and anti-air defense systems including air-to-ground, surface-to-air and ground-to-ground weaponry.
KBP was founded in 1927 as a small arms OKB of the Tula Arms Plant, and began to specialise in missile and precision-guided systems under the direction of Arkady Shipunov from the 1960s. It became one of the most successful OKBs in the Soviet Union, with many of its designs being adopted by the Soviet Armed Forces, and its employees winning 8 Lenin Prizes. Notable products of KBP include the TT pistol, the Makarov pistol, the Kornet ATGM, the Krasnopol guided shell, the Pantsir missile system, and PP-2000 submachine gun. KBP was privatised after the dissolution of the Soviet Union in 1991, and it is currently a subsidiary of High Precision Systems, part of Rostec.