Myasishchev

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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 2003, its workforce is estimated at approx­imately one thousand.

Contents 1 Products 1.1 Civil 1.2 Military 2 External links

[edit] Products

[edit] Civil

• M-101 Gzhel/Duet and Duet business aircraft
• M-112 and M-150 cargo-passenger aircraft
• M-500 agricultural aircraft

[edit] Military

• M-4 'Bison', a strategic bomber.
• M-50 'Bounder', supersonic bomber
• 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, a high-altitude research and reconnaissance aircraft.

[edit] External links

• Official site, in English and Russian.
• globalsecurity.org
• Encyclopædia Astronautix
• Myasishchev history