"OKB-23" redirects here. For related design bureaus and manufacturing plants see NPO Mashinostroyeniya and Khrunichev State Research and Production Space Center.
Khrunichev State Research and Production Space Center
V. M. Myasishchev Experimental Design Bureau (Экспериментальный Машиностроительный Завод им. В. М. Мясищева) or OKB-23, founded in 1951 by Vladimir Myasishchev) was one of the chief Soviet aerospace design bureaus until its dissolution in 1960. Vladimir Myasishchev went on to head TsAGI. In 1967, Myasishchev left TsAGI and recreated his bureau, which still exists to this day. The bureau prefix was "M." As of 2015[update], its workforce is estimated at approximately one thousand. Myasishchev and NPO Molniya intend to use the V-MT or M-55 as launch vehicle for sub-orbital spaceflight.[1]
Products[]
Myasishchev M-50
Civil[]
- M-101 Gzhel/Duet and Duet business aircraft
- M-112 and M-150 cargo-passenger aircraft
- M-500 agricultural aircraft
- Space Adventures C-21
- Space Adventures M-55X
Military[]
- M-4 "Bison", a strategic bomber.
- M-18, supersonic bomber design
- M-50 "Bounder", supersonic bomber
- M-60, nuclear powered bomber project
- M-103 experimental heavy bomber
- Buran program, cockpit
- Cosmopolis XXI suborbital craft
- VKA-23, a spaceplane.
- VM-T 'Atlant', modified to carry the space shuttle Buran
- M-55 "Mystic", a high-altitude research and reconnaissance aircraft.
Missiles[]
- RSS-40 Buran, nuclear cruise missile project
References[]
- ↑ "Russian Companies Design Space Tour Plane" Space Travel, 31 August 2012. Retrieved: 6 September 2012.
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