Died General Director of the Tula Instrument Design Bureau named after Academician Arkady Shipunov Dmitry Konoplev.
Tula KBP developed and produced anti-tank missile systems “Kornet”, “Kvartet” and “Metis”; air defense systems Pantsir-S1, Kashtan-M, Tunguska-M1; missile system “Hermes-A”, small arms and ammunition.
It is reported that Konoplev died during a xeonotherapy procedure that he took to get rid of his ailments.
By a strange coincidence, since the beginning of the war in Ukraine, a wave of deaths has covered either retired generals of the special services or managers of leading Russian companies.
In the Ukrainian telegram channels there were reports of an explosion on the Russian flagship of the Black Sea Fleet, the cruiser Moskva, caused by a Hit by a Ukrainian missile.