TsNIITochMash is a Russian industrial design bureau which is a major designer and producer of weapons for the Russian Armed Forces and National Guard. The name is an initialism for Central Scientific - Research Institute for Precision Machine Engineering (Центральный научно-исследовательский институт точного машиностроения).
TsNIITochMash determines the development of and develops small arms and simulators for them, individual field equipment, conducts R&D on control systems for precision-guided munitions (as well as protection against them), field artillery systems and new materials. It also develops most cartridges, from small arms up to 14.5×114mm, for the Russian Armed Forces.[2]
Main activities
Development and production of various types of small arms and ammunition, military equipment, mortar and artillery systems, optoelectronic devices, sports and hunting ammunition, sealed containers for transportation and storage, simulators of small arms. Various tests of small arms and cannon weapons.
An important area of activity is the development of precision weapons guidance equipment (PWGE). The Institute has developed control equipment for the first domestic portable and portable-mounted anti-tank complexes "Fagot", "Konkurs". The technical solutions found by the Institute are the basis for the control equipment of the anti-tank complexes "Metis" and others. The Institute is a developer, manufacturer and holder of patents for ground-based control equipment of an effective modern anti-tank complex "