Vympel Design Bureau

Vympel Design Bureau (Russian: КБ «Вымпел») is a Russian ship design company based in Nizhny Novgorod.

This article is about the Russian ship design company. For the Russian defence company of the same name, see Vympel NPO.

History

The company was established in 1927 as a branch of the Leningrad Maritime Shipbuilding Bureau. The company was granted the status of a self-sufficient organization under the name State Office of River and Sea Ships Design in 1930 and was renamed Central Design Bureau No. 51 in 1939. In 1966–1972, the company was known as Central Design Office "Volgobaltsudoproyekt" before receiving its current name.[1]

Recent projects
gollark: Okay, ArachnoKarl.
gollark: So 45 in total, maybe 40 given various overheads.
gollark: Unless you mean lunch, which you can get maybe 30 out of.
gollark: You realise that that's 15 minutes?
gollark: I actually know a nonzero amount about distributed processing tools so I can write about that.

References
  1. "History". Vympel Design Bureau. Retrieved 18 August 2019.


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