Myasishchev

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 2003, 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]

3.7.2014 and 25.7.2014 information from Board of Directors OAO Il about integration between Ilyushin and Myasishchev.^[2][3]

Products

Myasishchev M-50

Civil

• Myasishchev M-90 Air Ferry - very heavy multi-purpose transport project, not built.
• 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.
  • VM-T 'Atlant', modified to carry the space shuttle Buran
• M-17 "Mystic-A" high-altitude reconnaissance aircraft
• M-18 supersonic bomber design
• M-44 aerospace vehicle project
• M-48 spaceplane project
• M-50 "Bounder" supersonic bomber
• M-55 "Mystic-B" high-altitude research and reconnaissance aircraft
• M-60 nuclear powered bomber project
• M-103 experimental heavy bomber
• M-200 Master military trainer project, not built.
• Buran program, cockpit
• Cosmopolis XXI suborbital craft
• VKA-23 spaceplane project

Missiles

• RSS-40 Buran, nuclear cruise missile project

References

1. "Russian Companies Design Space Tour Plane" Space Travel, 31 August 2012. Retrieved: 6 September 2012.
2. http://www.ilyushin.org/press/news/ev3327/
3. http://www.ilyushin.org/press/news/ev3420/

External links

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