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Satellite images show that Russia’s Motovilikha artillery plant in Perm has completed construction of new production facilities, OSINT defense analyst Daniele reported on X on September 7.
“Significant expansion of production space, which began at the end of 2024, was fully completed by August 2025,” the analyst noted.
Our work at @tochnyi continues to monitor the Russian war effort. Here, I share our latest findings on Perm Motovilikha Plant, responsible for producing various weapon systems, particularly artillery guns.
— Daniele 🇺🇦🇬🇧🏴 (@HartreeFock) September 7, 2025
A significant expansion of their workspaces, initiated in late 2024, was… pic.twitter.com/nOk93GYwkI
Motovilikha is the developer and Russia’s only producer of transport-loading vehicles for multiple launch rocket systems (MLRS) such as the Grad and Smerch, along with their modernized variants Tornado-G and Tornado-S.
The plant also manufactures and repairs self-propelled artillery systems, including the Nona-SVK and Vena, towed Msta-B howitzers, Nona-M1 mortars, and other artillery systems.
A year before Russia’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine, the plant had repaired more than 30 towed Msta-B howitzers and self-propelled Gvozdika systems, and shipped upgraded Tornado-G rocket launchers.
Official documents list the company as “Special Design Bureau” (JSC SKB), one of Russia’s largest producers of MLRS artillery systems.
The plant was declared bankrupt in March 2018 and faced serious financial troubles until 2023. With Moscow’s war against Ukraine fueling demand for weapons, the facility’s production assets were acquired that year by Remdizel, based in Naberezhnye Chelny, and later transferred to Technodinamika, a Rostec subsidiary.
Technodinamika has been under US sanctions since 2015 and was added to the EU sanctions list in December 2022 as a defense manufacturer supplying the Russian army for its war in Ukraine.
Today, the Perm facility is fully backed by state defense contracts and continues to invest in expanding its production capacity.
Earlier, the open-source intelligence project Oryx visually confirmed the first recorded loss of a Russian D-74 122mm howitzer, a rare artillery system dating back to the 1950s.
