The procurement, announced by JSC Surgut Airport, was flagged by Siberia.Realities and reported by Radio Liberty and The Insider. The documentation specifies a system for two paired machine guns, fitted with a thermal imaging sight, a monitor for remote operation and an external uninterruptible power supply.
Other enterprises have posted similar tenders. The Ust-Luga department of the North-Western Basin branch of FSUE Rosmorport, which is responsible for security at the Ust-Luga port in the Leningrad Region, plans to buy three machine-gun turrets with thermal imagers and monitors for 8.9 million rubles.
According to The Moscow Times, the port has repeatedly come under drone attack, most recently on 1 September. It is Russia's largest port on the Baltic Sea: in 2025 it exported 700,000 barrels of oil per day.
PJSC Kolymaenergo has bought a turret for a Degtyaryov hand-held machine gun. It will be fired by members of mobile fire groups. The installation is intended for a facility in the village of Sinegorye in the Yagodninsky District of the Magadan Region; the Kolyma hydroelectric power station is located at the same address.
In November, the Angarsk Electrolysis Chemical Combine, part of Rosatom, also announced a tender for a turret installation. The facilities listed have not yet been attacked, The Moscow Times notes.
In late May 2026, RBC, citing a source, reported that Russian businesses had been permitted to buy weapons to defend against drones. The list included electronic warfare systems, drone interceptors, turrets and artillery.
In August 2026, President Vladimir Putin signed a decree allowing critical infrastructure facilities to be transferred to the state if their owners failed to protect them from drones and other threats or failed to restore them after a strike. The document covers fuel and energy and industrial enterprises, as well as utilities, transport and logistics infrastructure. The authorities said the form of ownership would not change.
In October, Alexander Shokhin, head of the Russian Union of Industrialists and Entrepreneurs, complained that it was impossible to cover all large enterprises with air defence because they occupy too much area.