MOSCOW, January 27 - RIA Novosti. The combat machine gunners-gunners MANPADS "Typhoon defense" is at the final stage, in the third quarter of this year will end development work, said the General Director of the Izhevsk Electromechanical plant "Kupol" (part of the concern VKO "Almaz-Antey") Fanil Ziyatdinov.
He stressed that in both areas, production preparation is already underway both at the Kupol plant and at related enterprises.
"Another of our developments – the combat vehicle of the squad of anti-aircraft gunners of the MANPADS "Typhoon-AIR DEFENSE", has also already managed to"show itself". The prototypes successfully performed during the "Clear Sky" competition of the Army International Games-2019, held in China. There, they aroused universal interest, since this is an inexpensive and effective solution to the problem of increasing the mobility, security and combat effectiveness of anti-aircraft gunners of MANPADS, " Ziyatdinov said.
He also noted that the development is carried out on an initiative basis, that is, at the expense of its own profit, but in close cooperation with specialists of the Ministry of Defense of the Russian Federation.