Omsktransmash

Omsktransmash
Native name
Омский завод транспортного машиностроения
Company typeState owned unitary enterprise
IndustryAutomotive, Arms industry
FoundedRailway workshops: 1896 (1896)[1]
Military production: 1942[2]
Headquarters,
ProductsMilitary vehicles, Self-propelled artillery, Multiple rocket launchers, tractors, excavators, metal castings, washing machines, other metal products
ParentUralvagonzavod
Websitetransmash-omsk.ru

Omsktransmash (Russian: Омский завод транспортного машиностроения, lit.'Omsk transport machine factory') is a wholly state-owned engineering company based in the city of Omsk, Russia. The company was best known in the West during the Cold War period for its production of armoured vehicles such as the T-80 tank.[3] The design bureau of the company, KBTM, was also responsible for the BTR-T amphibious APC, TOS-1 multiple rocket launcher and 2S19 "Msta-S" self-propelled howitzer.[citation needed]