Joseph Grigorievich Akopyan Biography

Monday, March 17, 90 years, the founder of the modern air defense system, Joseph Akopyan Sunday, August 29, year, 90 years, celebrates Joseph Grigorievich Akopyan, the founder of the modern air defense system and the author of the whole direction in the defense industry. Once he created the first head of the self-self-confidence of missiles in the country, this was a breakthrough in Russian military science.

Among his inventions were there civilians in the field of medicine, but what does the brilliant designer work on now? The pilot notices a mark of an enemy aircraft on the locator and presses the Start button. The rest will do the rest of the rocket itself. The fighter evades a possible attack, at this time the rocket he released holds a course on a target that can be in dozens or even hundreds of kilometers.

The rocket seemed to cling to the enemy with teeth, sees its maneuvers and instantly changes the trajectory. The finale of this fight is predictable. This person taught to see, think and react the rocket. Joseph Grigoryevich Akopyan created the first head of self -confidence in our country. The product weighing 34 kilograms is the main part of the Kube anti-aircraft missile system.

For this work, Joseph Akopyan received the Lenin Prize: “It is semi -active. There were no transistors then. There were diodes. And it is made on small electronic lamps.

It was given very hard. " Not everyone believed that Akopyan and his colleagues would succeed, but if intelligence reported that the Americans are working on a homing head, then it was necessary to do their own, only better. And soon a new era came in air defense. Briefly it can be described as follows: one rocket - one goal - the principle: shot and forgot. It was very different that Akopyan saw a little boy during the Germans raids on Moscow: “Soundman, such ears, then the spotlights, only after that began to shoot from anti -aircraft guns, 11 thousand shells went to bring down one plane.” This was one of the most striking children's memories, but he could not even think that most of his life, 70 years, would be devoted to the air defense that he would create a whole direction in the defense of our country.

There were also failures. With the beginning of perestroika from the design bureaus, they demanded to make civilian products. Then it was called "conversion." They don’t know how to work badly here, so they made several unique medical diagnostic devices. Bilirubin is a pigment with which hepatitis is diagnosed. They designed, made ready -made samples, but to establish mass production and sell is not the work of the design bureau.

In x it turned out to be nobody. Akopyan is sorry for the effort. And so, you look, and I would not have to buy MRI devices abroad now. Nevertheless, dozens of countries purchased the missiles of its design. Joseph Akopyan, designer, doctor of technical sciences: “This is a defensive weapon. These heads cannot be destroyed by New York or Washington. ” Such people are not customary to ask about creative plans.

But answering the question about fashion for drones, Joseph Akopyan spoke a little about the near future of the air defense: “We need to create a system that could work simultaneously for dozens of goals. Among these drones, drones are easiest to knock down. ” Akopyan is used to looking into the future: they will send a swarm of drones, controlled missiles and mines on the attack.

Therefore, in the protection of our borders, there should be an anti-aircraft missile complex, similar to a Kalashnikov assault rifle. Only instead of bullets, dozens of missiles that Joseph Akopyan have already taught to see and think.