Military hardware

VPK (LLC) manages the Russian Machines enterprises specializing in military hardware production: OJSC Arzamass Machine-Building Plant, OJSC Hull (Zavod Korpusov, city of Vyksa) and OJSC Barnaultransmash.

Enterprises managed by the Military Industrial Company design and produce multifunctional and light armored vehicles, which are employed by land forces and other military formations and services in Russia (BTR-80, BTR-80A, BTR-90, BRMD-2A, the Tiger special-purpose vehicle and many others). The company's product list for state agencies includes over 80 items.

The company works with Russian security ministries and foreign clients, and oversees the fulfillment by Russian Machines enterprises of state procurement orders. In addition, VPK is responsible for adapting and modifying vehicles produced at GAZ Group for the use by security agencies.

A Military-Engineering Center has been set up under the auspices of VPK. The center expands and modernizes the existing range of models, standardizes the assembly parts and components and records and carries out special orders for military equipment. The Center already conducts long-term R&D programs to design modern armaments for military forces and other security services.

The government (primary) contractors of the company are the Ministry of Defense, the Ministry of Internal Affairs, the Federal Security Service and the Federal Protection Service. The company's major foreign customers are countries in Latin America, Africa, the Middle East, the Asia-Pacific region and the CIS. The company's government agent for export contracts is FSUE Rosoboronexport.

The strategic priorities of the Military Industrial Company are:

• The development of promising new products (the BTR-82 and BTR-VV armored infantry vehicles, the "Tiger-M" and "Wolf" multi-purpose vehicles) 
• The serial production of new products (BTR-82, STS Tiger) 
•  Dynamic growth of export
• The creation of a unified family of diesel engines for armored and automotive vehicles, within the power range of 80 to 1350 kW - to both supply to defense and law enforcement agencies and export abroad.