Dombarovsky (air base)

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Dombarovsky
Yasnaya
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Yasny, Orenburg Oblast in Russia
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Dombarovsky
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Dombarovsky
Dombarovsky (Russia)
Coordinates 51°02′56″N59°51′12″E / 51.04889°N 59.85333°E / 51.04889; 59.85333
TypeAir Base
Site information
Owner Ministry of Defence
Operator Strategic Rocket Forces
Site history
In use1953-present
Airfield information
Identifiers ICAO: XWTD
Elevation265 metres (869 ft) AMSL
Runways
Direction Length and surface
  Concrete
Helipads
NumberLength and surface
04/22210 metres (689 ft) Concrete

Dombarovsky (also given as Dombarovskiy and Tagilom) is a military airbase 5 kilometres (3.1 mi) northwest of the village of Dombarovsky, near Yasny in Russia's Orenburg Oblast. Operated by the Soviet Air Defence Forces and later by the Russian Air Force, it hosted fighter interceptor squadrons and hosts an ICBM base (which has been adapted for commercial satellite launches) with a supporting helicopter base.

Contents

The site is divided into three sites:

Interceptor base

The facility featured three revetment compounds.

The 412th Fighter Aviation Regiment (412 IAP PVO) flew from the base from August 1949 with the La-11, MiG-15, and MiG-17 to 1962. [3] By the 1970s it was flying the Sukhoi Su-9 (Fishpot) aircraft. [4] The regiment replaced it in 1978 with the Mikoyan-Gurevich MiG-23M (Flogger-B). [4] From 1953-60 it reported to the 101st Fighter Aviation Division PVO, and then to the 19th Air Defence Corps of the 4th Independent Air Defence Army. It disbanded in 1993.

Other reporting of the 763rd Fighter Aviation Regiment (763 IAP) flying MiG-23 aircraft in 1991 [5] appears to be incorrect. The 763rd Fighter Aviation Regiment was, it appears from more recent data, flying from Yugorsk-2.

ICBM base

Dombarovsky is also the home of the 13th Dombarovsky Red Banner Division, 31st Missile Army of the Strategic Rocket Forces. The base was built during the mid-60s along with the majority of the Soviet ICBM bases.

The first base commander was Major-General Dmitri Chaplygin. [6] Up to 10 units of Strategic Rocket Forces were based in the area, each with anywhere from 6 to 10 operational silos. At the peak of operations, Dombarovsky maintained a total of 64 silos on full alert. By 2002, according to the Russian press, the number had dropped to 52. The missiles deployed in the region were primarily the RS-20 type and its sub-variants.

On 22 December 2004, the Rocket Forces conducted from the base a test launch of an R-36M2 to the Kamchatka Peninsula. [7]

Commercial launches

With the conversion of the R-36M ICBM for use as a satellite launch vehicle, the Dnepr system, Dombarovsky has launched a number of commercial payloads. These civilian launches are operated by the Russian Air Force[ citation needed ] on behalf of the launcher's operator, Russian/Ukrainian consortium Kosmotras. Kosmotras calls the facility Yasny launch base, and has constructed additional facilities necessary for commercial satellite launch operations, including clean room integration facilities. [8]

LaunchDate (UTC)VehiclePayloadLaunch padResultRemarks / References
112 July 2006 Dnepr Genesis I DombarovskySuccess Bigelow Aerospace payload, in a 550 km, 64.5 degree inclination orbit [ citation needed ]
228 June 2007 Dnepr Genesis II DombarovskySuccess Bigelow Aerospace payload, orbit nearly identical to Genesis I [ citation needed ]
31 October 2008 Dnepr THEOS DombarovskySuccessLaunched for GISTDA [ citation needed ]
415 June 2010 Dnepr Prisma, Picard, BPA-1 DombarovskySuccess [9]
517 August 2011 Dnepr DombarovskySuccess [10]
622 August 2013 Dnepr KOMPSat-5 DombarovskySuccess South Korea's satellite in LEO orbit [11]
721 November 2013 Dnepr
DombarovskySuccess32 satellites, most of them cubesats [12] [13]
819 June 2014 Dnepr DombarovskySuccess37 satellites [14]
96 November 2014 Dnepr DombarovskySuccess Japanese satellites [15]
1025 March 2015 Dnepr KOMPSat-3A DombarovskySuccess South Korea's satellite in LEO orbit [16]

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