MKB "Iskra"

      Engineering Design Bureau "Iskra" (MKB "Iskra") named after I.I.Kartukov JSC is one of the leading enterprises of Russian aerospace industry, developing and manufacturing gears and propulsion systems for various purposes that use energy of ballistic powder and missile mixed solid fuel.
     Over its 60-year history the specialists of the enterprise developed and put into operation assisted-takeoff units for unmanned and manned aircraft, more than 200 types of solid-fuel engines for all types of missiles, soft landing engines of Voskhod and Soyuz manned spaceships and composite ejectors for chute chairs.
     Nowadays the main activity of the design bureau is the development and manufacturing of solid-fuel gas generators used in different technical fields.
   The product line of MKB "Iskra" JSC is the following:
      - Gas generators and solid-fuel engines for guided tactical missiles;
      - Spacecraft stage separation systems;
      - Emergency systems of control allowing pilot escape and recovery;
      - Mobile fire systems for fighting large-scale fires, in particular, on hard-to-reach areas.