AIRFRAME PLANT GORBUNOV 22 KAZAN, USSR 5552N-4907E

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• Collection: NGA Records (Formerly NIMA)
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP78T05439A000400020024-3
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: T
• Document Page Count: 8
• Document Creation Date: December 28, 2016
• Document Release Date: August 14, 2012
• Sequence Number: 24
• Publication Date: July 2, 1964
• Content Type: REPORT

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AIRFRAME PLANT GORBUNOV 22
KAZAN, USSR
THE TU-22-(BLINDER) IS THE FOLLOW-ON DESIGN--
or- THE TU-16, (BADGER) MEDIUM BOMBER. THE BLINDER HAS SEVERAL-
MODELS, INCLUDING A CONVENTIONAL BOMBER VERSION, AN AM MISSILE
CARRIER-(WITH A STAND-OFF STRIKE AND POSSIBLE IN-FLIGHT REFUELING
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CAPABILITY) AND A RECONNkESSANCW VERSION. 'THE BLINDER HAS BEEN
OBSERVED AT BOTH LONG RANGE AND NAVAL AVIATION BASES_
IT IS t,3SUMED THAT ONE PROTOTYPE WAS DESIGNED AND FABRICATED
BY 1957, 2 ADDITIONAL PROTOTYPES WERE PROBABLY BUILT DURING 1958
AND ErHLY SERIES PRODUCTION WAS STARTED IN EARLY 1959 AT AIRFRAME
PLANT 22 IN KAZAN .
PRESENT PRODUCTION ESTATES ON BLINDER RANGE FROM 4-7 PER MONTH
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2. BLINDER' WAS FIRST OBSERVED ON PHOTOGRAPHYI
FEB -LT KAZAN AIRFRAMEBZANT 22 AND IDENTrFIED AS A NEW TYPE
BOMBER. EIGHT BLINDER WERE OBSERVED ON THE PARKING APRONS OF THE
THE NEW BSS SEEN AT KAZAN WERE IDENTIFIED WHEN THE AIRCRAFT
WAS FIRST DISPLAYED AT THE TUSHINO AIR SHOW IN JULY 1961.
4. TEN SUB3EiT KH MISSIONS WHICH COVERED THE AI'RAME PLANT WERE
NOT ABLE TO IDENTIFY BLINDER AIRCRAFT
7. THIS MISSION REVEALS 14+ BLINDER, 8 BADGER-,,AND THREE TRANSPORTS.
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MISSION 1007-2
FLIGHT TEST CMTTER
MOSCOW/RAMENSKOYE; USSR
5533N - 3807E
2. REVEALED THE FIRST IDENTIFICATION OF BLINDER AT THIS
AIRFTr . FIVE PROBABLE BLINDER WERE REPORTED.
ENTIFIED 6 POSSIBLE BLINDER.
THIS MISSION REVEALS 8 BLINDER.
RUNWAY SHOWN 8,200 BY 250 FT.
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BARONO r ICBI AIRFIELD
USSR
5306N - 2603E
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FIRST PEDTOGRAPHr OF TIS AIRFIELD WA3 ACCOMPLISHED BY TALENT
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BEVEALEDTO FIRST IDER'i'IFICATION OF BT T1 flER AT
THIS FIELD. FOUR PROBABLE AND TERRE POSSIBLE BSS ISRE OB-
SERVED.
Si~SEQL~T )ONIONS REVEALED THE FOLLOWING BLINDER COLT:
FIVE SUBSEQUENT T/FR )IIISSIONS COVERED
56 AND Ate 62
INSTAL LATIOB BEi J
21 POSSIBLE RT.TNnER
5 BLnMER ON PASS 25D
26 BLINDER ON PASS 34A
1 POSM. BLINDER
6 BLINDER
3 PROBABLE BUMMER
? 6 BLINDER
7 POSS RT.T711DER
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13 BT.IRDER
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TES )CSSIOB BEVSAY.S BZGRT MMUM, 24 BADGER, ,OBB MSDIUM
SRBAIGBT-- , AND 27 LARGE Two POSSIBLE LAMB ACID 13 SMALL
.6. RUNWAY L TE 10,000 BY 300 FT.
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MISSION 1007-2
TOP SECRET CHESS RUFF
GOMEL/PRIBYTKI AIRFIELD
USSR .
5218N - 3110E
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2: FIRST PHOTOGRAPHY OF THIS AIRFIELD WAS ACCOMPLISHED BY KH MISSION
AND WAS.SUBSEQJENTLY COVERED BY EIGHT ADDITIONAL KH
MISSIONS BETWEEN JUN 610 AND AUG 63.
3. REVEALED THE FIRST IDENTIFICATION OF BLINDER AT
THIS FIELD WHEN THIRTY-ONE BLINDER AIRCRAFT WERE REPORTE]i.
4.
REVEALED THIRTY-SIX BLINDER.
5. THIS MISSION REVEALS THIRTY-SIX BLINDER, ELEVEN BADGER, AND TWO
BULL AIRCRAFT.
;6. RUNWAY 9,800 BY 280 FT.
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BLINDER AIRCRAFT, USSR
KALININGRAD'PROVEREN AIRFIELD
54-46N 20.2SE .
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FLIGHT TEST ' CENTER
MOSCOW/RAMENSKOYE
BARANOVICHI AIRFIELD