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.

The company produced 596 units of military hardware in 2008 and approximately 850 in 2009.

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.