TSNIIAG: HIGH-PRECISION CONTROL AND GUIDANCE SYSTEMS

Victor Solunin
 

In its first projects, the Institute researchers and designers developed electrical and electrohydraulic fire control drives antiaircraft guns and naval artillery systems; gun stabilization systems for main battle tanks, and drive systems for ballistic missiles launch sites.

In its first projects, the Institute researchers and designers developed electrical and electrohydraulic fire control drives for the Ks-30, KM-52 and S-78A antiaircraft guns, and the SM-2, SM-3 and SM-5 naval artillery systems; gun stabilization systems for the T-54, T-55 and T-62 main battle tanks, and the Piramida, Konus and Prizma drive systems for ballistic missile launch sites at the Baikonur missile range.

Later, the range of the institute's designs expanded as new weapon systems were developed for various services of the Armed Forces, including:

Tochka-U short-range ballistic missile

- control drives for antennas (RS-10, RS-11), tracking theodolites (KT-50), and tracking telescopes (KFT-60, KFT-80) of air defense (AD) systems;

- control drives for the Krug, S-75, S-125, S-200 and 9A35 AD missile systems;

- radar antenna control drives for the Kupol, Buk and S-300 AD missile systems;

- hydraulic drives for vernier engines of the Temp-S, Pioner and Topol ballistic missiles;

- hydraulic drives for the Pioner and Topol self-propelled ballistic missile launchers;

- transmission hydraulic drives for the T-72 and T-80 main battle tanks;

- hydraulic drives for the Tyulpan large-caliber self- propelled mortar;

- electrical drives for the Bereg artillery system;

- sonar stabilization and control hydraulic drives for the Leningrad and Kiev heavy aircraft-carrying cruisers and Project 705 submarines;

- control drives for the ZIF-101 naval AD missile system;

- control drives for the RBU-1000 and RBU-6000 anti-submarine rocket launchers;

- hydraulic drives and manipulators for the Poisk deep-diving vehicles;

- electrical drives for the Zhemchug, Yakhont, Ikar and Opal satellite-based photographic cameras;

- electrical control drives for the X-ray and submillimeter-band space-based telescopes of the Salyut orbital station;

- attitude control systems for the Cosmos and Vertikal-series satellites;

- antenna drives for the Cosmonaut Yuri Gagarin and Akademik Sergei Korolev telemetry tracking and control ships;

- antenna drives for the ADU-1000 and RS10-2M deep-space telecommunications systems;

- launch pad drives for the Buran-Energia space transportation system.

T-62 main battle tank

This diverse list of systems equipped with TsNIIAG-developed follow-up and control drives is first of all indicative of the wide range of technical and operating characteristics mastered by the Institute. One feature is common for all of these systems: they have a very high precision level.

The development of this wide range of follow-up systems and control drives which vary in terms of capacity, operation rates and frequencies required the Institute to develop new application techniques for analysis and synthesis of automatic control systems, new methods of follow-up system control and correction, a new class of hydraulic machines and equipment, electrical motors, transformers and amplifiers, digital attitude and angular-rate sensors, and dedicated application software.

As guided weapon systems began emerging in large numbers in the USSR and abroad, TsNIIAG concentrated all its efforts on the development of fire control and guidance equipment for army and navy weapon systems.

The first such developments were remote control systems for the Shmel and Ovod antitank guided missiles, the fire control system for the T-64B main battle tank, remote control systems for TEST-71 torpedoes launched from submarines and surface ships...full article is available for subscribes only