ALCM DESIGNATIONS/NUMBER OF WARHEADS

US	USSR/RUSSIA	WARHEADS
AS-15A Kent	Kh-55	1

AS-15A ALCMs are launched from Tu-95 Bear H6 (up to 6 ALCMs) and Bear H16 (up to 10 ALCMs) heavy bombers.

HEAVY BOMBER BASES

9/90 START I MoU	12/94 START I MoU	5/95
Semipalatinsk  40 Tu-95 Bear H	0	0

All ALCMs and heavy bombers were transferred to Russia by December 1994.

TOTAL DEPLOYED BOMBERS & WARHEADS

9/90 START I MoU	12/94 START I MoU	5/95
40 Heavy Bombers  370 Warheads	0 Heavy Bombers  0 Warheads	0 Heavy Bombers  0 Warheads

DEVELOPMENT ARCHIVE:
3/23/95: US TEAM INSPECTS BOMBERS IN SEMIPALATINSK.
From 3/22-3/23/95 a US committee carried out an inspection at the Semipalatinsk airfield in accordance with START-I. The 7 TU-95s that are located on the airfield were also inspected. The status and a schedule of liquidation for the TU-95s will be decided later by the Russian Federation and the Republic of Kazakhstan.
[Ministry of Foreign Affairs RK Statement.]
 
2/94: LAST TU-95M TRANSFERRED TO RUSSIA
Colonel General Petr Deynekin, commander-in-chief of the Russian Air Force, says that the last four Russian Tu-95Ms on Kazakhstani territory have been removed to Russia, but that several obsolete Tu-95s, manufactured in 1955, would remain at the Semipalatinsk airfield. Senior Russian and Kazakhstani officials indicate that 40 Tu-95 strategic bombers and ALCMs were transferred to Russia in 2/94. Kazakhstan maintains that this action was taken by Russia without notification or the consent of Kazakhstan.
Sources:
[1] "All Strategic Bombers Out Of Kazakhstan; Talks On Those In Ukraine," RFE/RL News Briefs, Vol. 3, No. 9, 21-25 February 1994.]
[2] Additional information from personal communications with Kazakhstani and Russian Foreign Ministry officials in May 1994.
[3] "Nuclear Successor States Of The Former Soviet Union: Nuclear-Weapon And Sensitive Export Status Report," The Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, Washington, D.C. and Moscow, and The Monterey Institute of International Studies, Monterey, CA, Final Draft, 12 May 1994, p. 5.]

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