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| KRET (Russia) | |
|---|---|
| Name | Concern Radio-Electronic Technologies |
| Native name | Концерн Радиоэлектронные Технологии |
| Type | State-owned corporation subsidiary |
| Industry | Aerospace, Electronics, Defense |
| Founded | 2009 |
| Headquarters | Moscow, Russia |
| Key people | Dmitry Rogozin (past Rosoboronexport association), Sergei Chemezov (linked to Rostec) |
| Products | Avionics, Electronic warfare, Secure communications, Radar, Sensors |
| Parent | Rostec |
KRET (Russia) is a Russian holding company specializing in radio-electronic systems for aviation, naval, and ground platforms, integrated into Rostec as a major defense-industrial conglomerate. The concern consolidates historic enterprises from the Soviet radio-electronics sector, working with aerospace corporations such as Sukhoi, MiG, Irkut Corporation, United Aircraft Corporation, and naval builders including United Shipbuilding Corporation and Sevmash. KRET supplies systems to state actors like the Ministry of Defence (Russia) and civil agencies such as Aeroflot-linked maintenance organizations.
KRET emerged in 2009 as part of a wider reorganization under Rostec that aggregated legacy firms from the Soviet OPK restructuring and post-Soviet consolidation. Its constituent enterprises trace roots to institutes and factories connected with NPO Almaz, Vega Radio Engineering Corporation, Scientific Research Institute of Radio Equipment, and industrial centers in Moscow Oblast, Tatarstan, Ryazan Oblast, and Izhevsk. During the 2010s KRET pursued integration with aerospace programs including the Su-34 modernization, MiG-29K avionics updates, and avionics suites for the Il-76 transport. Internationally, historical links existed with suppliers in France, Germany, and Italy through Soviet-era cooperative projects such as those with Sukhoi Superjet 100 development partners.
The concern is organized as a holding with multiple design bureaus, research institutes, and manufacturing plants, reporting into Rostec and interacting with state procurement agencies like Rosoboronexport and United Instrument Manufacturing Corporation affiliates. Key subsidiaries include enterprises formerly part of Vega, R&D Radioelectronic Technologies Institute, and production sites in Izhevsk Machine-Building Plant and Kazan Radio Plant. Corporate governance reflects state-directed industrial policy seen in other conglomerates such as United Aircraft Corporation and Uralvagonzavod, with boards including representatives from Ministry of Industry and Trade (Russia) and state investment vehicles linked to Russian Direct Investment Fund.
KRET develops airborne avionics, electronic warfare (EW) suites, integrated cockpit displays, airborne and shipborne radar, sensors, secure communications, and identification friend or foe (IFF) systems used on platforms like Su-57, Su-35, MiG-31, Tu-160, Ka-52, and naval combatants built by Severnaya Verf. Specific product lines encompass passive and active electronically scanned array (AESA) radars, countermeasure pods, spectrum management systems, inertial navigation units co-developed historically with institutes like KRET Scientific Center and manufacturing specialists in Tatarstan Aviation Plant. KRET also supplies critical subsystems for civil aviation retrofits in cooperation with corporations such as Irkut Corporation on the MC-21 and for transport aircraft like An-124 modernization programs.
KRET is a principal supplier for Russian strategic and tactical programs, contributing EW suites for strategic platforms like Tu-160 and airborne warning systems related to A-50 Mainstay successor projects. It partners with defense contractors such as United Engine Corporation for integration of onboard systems, collaborates with Almaz-Antey on integrated air defense sensor networks, and has interoperability projects with the Russian Aerospace Forces and Northern Fleet. International program-level contacts historically included collaboration frameworks with nations operating Russian platforms, such as India on avionics for licensed platforms and with paramilitary services linked to Rosgvardiya procurements.
R&D is driven by in-house design bureaus and academic links to institutions like Bauman Moscow State Technical University, Moscow Aviation Institute, Kazan Federal University, and specialized research institutes in Zelenograd and Nizhny Novgorod. Research areas emphasize EW algorithms, low-observable sensor integration, high-frequency electronics, photonics, secure satellite communications interoperable with GLONASS, and digital signal processing for radar and electronic intelligence (ELINT). KRET maintains test ranges and laboratory complexes for electromagnetic compatibility trials and works with state science programs coordinated through the Minoboronprom framework and national innovation initiatives involving Skolkovo-linked startups.
KRET exports systems through state channels such as Rosoboronexport to operators of Russian platforms including countries like India, China, Vietnam, Syria, Algeria, and Egypt, supplying avionics, EW equipment, and naval sensors. Past cooperative ventures involved licensing and joint ventures with firms in Italy and France for civil electronics components during the Sukhoi Superjet 100 program era. Export activities are constrained and mediated by intergovernmental agreements, military-technical cooperation accords with partners such as Belarus and Serbia, and through defense exhibitions like MAKS and Army (forum) where KRET showcases systems.
KRET and affiliated entities have been subject to scrutiny in the context of international sanctions regimes tied to geopolitical events involving Ukraine, Crimea, and broader tensions with NATO countries. Sanctions lists from jurisdictions such as the European Union, United Kingdom, and United States Department of the Treasury have targeted specific subsidiaries and executives, affecting supply chains that once included components from Germany, United States, and Japan. Allegations in open-source reporting have concerned diversion of dual-use technologies, penetration of export controls, and roles in electronic operations linked to conflicts in Syria and Donbas. Legal and compliance responses have involved corporate reorganizations, import-substitution drives coordinated with Rosatom-style localization efforts, and state-supported mitigation via National Technology Initiative-type programs.
Category:Russian companies established in 2009 Category:Electronics companies of Russia Category:Rostec subsidiaries