ALBAWABA - Reports confirmed that the chief designer of the Iskander-M missile system, Oleg Mamalyga, died at the age of 92.
According to the company involved in the production of the Iskander-M missile system, Oleg Mamalyga died in Russia.
The High-Precision Systems holding company of the Rostec state corporation posted on Telegram confirming the death of the chief designer of the Iskander-M missile system.
The statement reads: "He devoted his entire working life to work at the Kolomna Machine-Building Design Bureau. Mamalyga took part in the development of weapons and military equipment, including the first Soviet ATGMs."
According to Russian sources, Mamalyga was one the people who joined the development of the Shmel and Malyutka ATGMs, the Tochka tactical missile system, and the Oka, Oka-U, and Iskander-M operational-tactical complexes.
About Oleg Mamalyga:
Oleg Mamalyga comes from a military family as his mother died during the evacuation in 1941, and his father fought in the entire Great Patriotic War.
The Russian man graduated from school with a gold medal then he studied at the Leningrad Voenmekh without exams as a rocket engineer.
In 1957, he was assigned to the Special Design Bureau in Kolomna.
