Radar Themes
In February 1951, to conduct top-secret work on the creation of anti-missile defense systems, Mints's team was transferred to the Third Main Directorate as an independent Radio Engineering Laboratory of the USSR Academy of Sciences (RALAN). The laboratory's main developments include technological equipment, warning systems, target designation, control and communications for the S-25 anti-aircraft missile system[5][4]
In 1954, work began on creating large ground-based radar stations for anti-missile defense. In 1957, the laboratory was transformed into the Radio Engineering Institute of the USSR Academy of Sciences (RTI USSR Academy of Sciences) as part of the Ministry of Medium Machine-Building. Aleksandr Mints was appointed director of RTI. Under the auspices of the Ministry of Medium Machine Building, the institute carried out work on accelerator topics (proton synchrotron, proton accelerator), and under the auspices of the Ministry of Radio Industry, on radar (radars for early warning and control systems, missile defense systems, air defense systems and missile defense systems).
In 1960, the development of the Dniester radar began, on the basis of which the SKKP radar nodes were later created in the Arctic, Latvian SSR, Kazakh SSR and Siberia. The institute was transferred to the Ministry of Radio Industry and moved to a new complex of buildings on 8 Marta Street, built on the territory previously occupied by the Faculty of Animal Husbandry of the Timiryazev Agricultural Academy.[6] The expansion allowed the institute to significantly replenish its staff. Many graduates from Moscow State University, MEPhI, MAI, and MPEI came, studying in such specialties as systems engineering, computational mathematics, and control theory. The average age of employees was no more than 35 years.[7]
In 1968, the Dnepr radar was developed, which implemented more advanced signal processing methods. On its basis, radar units of the early warning system were built on the Kola Peninsula, in Transcarpathia, Crimea, Latvian SSR, Kazakh SSR, and Siberia. Fundamentally new capabilities were incorporated into the Daugava radar, on the basis of which the high-potential Daryal radar was developed in the 1970s.[8]
Radar "Don-2N" under construction In the early 1990s, the multifunctional radar "Don-2N" developed by the institute, distinguished by increased energy, accuracy and resolution, was put on duty. It became the information core of the currently operating missile defense system of the central industrial region of Russia (A-135).
In subsequent years, the institute continued to increase its potential for creating powerful ultra-long-range radars, while simultaneously mastering the problems of new areas in the areas of communication systems, telecommunications, ground-space location, etc.
In 1985, RTI was named after Academician Aleksandr Mints
In 2000, RTI became part of the JSC "Concern "RTI Systems". As of 2011, the concern owns 83.27% of the institute's shares
As of 2014, JSC Mints Radiotechnical Institute is part of JSC Concern RTI Systems, the main shareholder of which is the holding company JSC RTI (CEO P. S. Laptayev). The shareholders of JSC RTI, in turn, are AFK Sistema (84.6%) and Bank of Moscow (15.4%).[9]
Due to Russia's invasion of Ukraine, the enterprise is under sanctions from all EU countries, the US, Ukraine and Japan.
