Dolgoprudniy Design Bureau of Automatics

JSC «Dolgoprudnenskoye Design Bureau of Automatics» (АО «ДКБА», also rendered JSK «DDBA») is a Russian joint-stock company whose stated activity is the development and creation of airships, balloons and special-purpose systems. According to its own website, it is the only state enterprise in Russia engaged in the development and creation of airships and balloons, and it lists among its main activity areas research and the creation of advanced aeronautical complexes — including airships, free and tethered balloons — as well as structural film and fabric-film materials, ground handling systems and onboard power transmission systems for communications relay, radar picket and training tasks. The company also states that it retains leading positions in the development and manufacture of soft structures, and it offers services such as electroplating, cutting and sewing of technical items, welding and milling.

The available evidence does not provide a founding date or a chronological corporate history. The company's own website presents it under the name Joint-Stock Company «Dolgoprudnenskoye Design Bureau of Automatics» (АО «ДКБА»), with the English rendering JSK «DDBA», and describes its activity as the development and creation of airships, balloons and special-purpose systems. It states that it is the only state enterprise in Russia engaged in the development and creation of airships and balloons, and lists its main activity areas as research and the creation of advanced aeronautical complexes (airships, free and tethered balloons), structural film and fabric-film materials, ground handling systems and onboard power transmission systems for communications relay, radar picket and training tasks. It further states that it retains leading positions in the development and manufacture of soft structures, and that its production units are specialized by technological principle and equipped with special technological equipment. The site also lists projects including the DP-29 airship, the «Peresvet» and «MAKS» aerostat complexes, the «VAL» high-altitude aerostat laboratory and a software and hardware monitoring complex, and lists services including electroplating, cutting and sewing of technical items, welding and milling.

States it is the only state enterprise in Russia engaged in the development and creation of airships and balloons, and that it retains leading positions in the development and manufacture of soft structures.

• Airship DP-29

• Aerostat complex «Peresvet»

• Aerostat complex «MAKS»

• High-altitude aerostat laboratory «VAL»

• Software and hardware monitoring complex

1. 1ДКБА - АО «ДКБА» - JSK «DDBA»dkba.ru
2. 2Что есть ДКБА? - АО «ДКБА» - JSK «DDBA»dkba.ru
3. 3О нас - АО «ДКБА» - JSK «DDBA»dkba.ru
4. 4Документы - АО «ДКБА» - JSK «DDBA»dkba.ru