LOCATION: Moscow
ACTIVITIES: Designed Bear and Blackjack bombers
[Thomas B. Cochran, et. al., SOVIET NUCLEAR WEAPONS, Nuclear
Weapons Databook Volume IV (New York: Harper & Row Publishers, 1989),
p. 237.]
HEAVY BOMBER FLIGHT TEST CENTERS
Zhukovskiy
LOCATION: near Moscow
HEAVY BOMBER PRODUCTION FACILITIES
Kazan Aircraft Production Combine
LOCATION: Kazan
ACTIVITIES: Produced Blackjack bombers.
KAZAN DEVELOPMENTS: 10/28/97: KAZAN PLANT TO DELIVER SIX BLACKJACK
BOMBERS Vasiliy Aleksandrov, general director of the Tupolev holding company,
said on 28 October 1998 that the Russian Defense Ministry had secured the
funds to buy six Tu-160 (Blackjack) bombers from the Kazan Aviation Production
Company (KAPO).[1] Five of the Tu-160s, finished in 1994, were ready
for immediate delivery, and one was in the final stages of assembly.[2]
Sources: [1] Interfax, 28 October 1997, in "Russian
Defense Ministry to Buy 6 Bombers from Tupolev," FBIS-UMA-97-301. [2] NTV, 17 May 1994, in "Russian Air
Force to get new Blackjack strategic bombers," Jamestown Foundation
Monitor, 29 October 1997. {Entered 7/17/98 FW}
Kuybyshev Aircraft Plant
LOCATION: Samara
ACTIVITIES: Produced Bear H bombers (production is
halted).
[Thomas B. Cochran, et. al., SOVIET NUCLEAR WEAPONS, Nuclear
Weapons Databook Volume IV (New York: Harper & Row Publishers, 1989),
p. 77.]
HEAVY BOMBER REPAIR FACILITIES
Ryazan
ACTIVITIES: Repair of Bison and Bear bombers.
HEAVY BOMBER CONVERSION OR ELIMINATION FACILITIES
Engels
BASE COMMANDER: Vladimir Kurganikov
[Leonid Kostrov, "Guillotine Being Tried Out At Engels: American
Satellites Will Track the Dissection of Russian Aircraft From Orbit," SEGODNYA,
7/5/95, p. 3.]
Delivery Vehicle Facilities
