Visit rocket manufacturing factory for S-300 Vietnam

Russia's long-range air defense missile complexes are probably too famous in the world, but few know how they are made.

Names like the S-300, S-400 or the near future are the S-500, always referred to as fire nets protecting the skies of Russia against any aerial threat.They are capable of intercepting almost any type of flying target, including ballistic missiles, with an effective range of up to 400km even if the target is at a height of more than 180,000m.(Photo source: The National Interest).

However, to gain that power, it is not possible to mention the special missile bullets for these air defense missile complexes such as 40N6, 48N6DM of S-400 or 64N6 and 96L6E of S-300PMU-1. Of course, to create these types of missiles is not the easiest at the Avangard factory, where only the missile projectiles for S-400 are made in Russia.(Image source: Therussophile.Org).

Avangard is one of the subsidiaries of Russia's Almaz-Antey Missile Group, and is considered to be the main contractor in the supply or maintenance contract for missile ammo for S-300 air defense complexes, S-400 and S-500 of the Russian Army.(Image source: arms-expo).

Founded in 1942 and through 75 years of construction and development, Avangard is one of the leading missile manufacturing plants in Russia.Not stopping there, Avangard is still being invested and supported by Almaz-Antey to expand the production scale of this factory to meet the growing demand of the market in the future.(Image source: arms-expo).

Avangard's name is, of course, also associated with the types of anti-aircraft missiles it has built, such as the V-750 missile line for the legendary anti-aircraft missile S-75 that fought in the Vietnam War, or V-600 for S-125 air defense complexes and many other names.(Image source: arms-expo).

Avangard's flagship product lines are still missile bullets for S-300 and S-400 combos, or in the near future of the S-500.The automation rate of this factory has recently increased significantly by about 40% compared to 2014, when Russia's missile manufacturing technology standards have changed.(Image source: arms-expo).

However few know that Avangard's original starting point was not to build attack missiles but engines for aircraft, but more specifically the U-2 biplane fighter.And it was not until 1950 that Avangard began to be transformed into making parts for the Soviet SAM anti-aircraft missile at that time.(Image source: arms-expo).

In the picture are dozens of rocket cartridges for S-300 and S-400 assemblies inside an Avangard workshop.These cartridges are designed to be able to preserve rockets in the best conditions before external impacts.(Image source: arms-expo).

A close-up of a missile shell for the S-300 anti-aircraft complex built by Avangard, it is still in the process of being completed before being loaded into the container.(Image source: arms-expo).

While increasing the automation rate, there are some steps in Avangard that must be done manually to ensure the individual technical elements of each component.(Image source: arms-expo).

Another corner of the missile manufacturing workshop in Avangard, this is where the completed after-rocket missiles are inserted into the tank to prepare for release.(Image source: arms-expo).

These missile cartridges have a shelf life of tens of years and before being released they must undergo at least 14 most stringent quality control stages.With the ultimate goal, they can complete their tasks after being deployed.(Image source: arms-expo).

The price of each missile shell is not cheap, it can be more than one million USD but the target that they can shoot down is worth hundreds of times more than that number.Typically, a US B-2 long-range strategic bomber costs about $ 730 million and Russia may need only one to three S-300 missiles to shoot it down.(Image source: arms-expo).

In addition to serving the domestic market, the Avangard plant also carries out contracts to supply missile ammo of S-300 assemblies for export and possibly the S-300PMU-1 missile ammunition that Vietnam The male user is also made by Avangard.(Image source: arms-expo).

In the picture is a tube containing 48N6 missile bullets for S-300 combinations, they range effectively from 150-195km depending on the variant.(Image source: arms-expo).