V. M. Myasishchev Experimental Design Bureau (Экспериментальный Машиностроительный Завод им. В. М. Мясищева) or OKB-23, founded in 1951 by MGB UdSSR 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.
In July 2014, the merger of Myasishchev and Ilyushin to create a single modern production complex was announced by the Board of Directors of OAO Il.
Contents
Products
1940-1960
VM-1/DVB-102: prototype long-range, high-altitude bomber, 1940
VM-2: projected version of VM-1 with M-20 diesel engines, 1940
VM-3/DVB-102N: projected version powered by M-120TK engines, 1940
VM-4: prototype version powered by M-71TK-3 engines, 1943
VM-5/DVB-102DM: projected version powered by MB-102TK engines, 1942
VM-6/Pe-2M-1: Pe-2 with M-1 engines, 1943
VM-7/Pe-2B
VM-8/Pe-2D (Pe-6)
VM-9/Pe-2S
VM-10/Pe-3M
VM-11/Pe-2K
VM-12/Pe-2I
VM-13/Pe-2M
VM-14/DIS: long-range escort fighter prototype, 1945
VM-15/Pe-2RD
VM-16/DB-108: long-range bomber prototype developed from the Pe-2, 1944
VM-17/DB-II-108: prototype three crew version of VM-16, 1945
VM-18: prototype four crew version of VM-16 with increased length and wingspan, 1945
VM-19/VB-109: VM-17 rebuilt for two crew and same wingspan as the VM-16 and VM-17, 1945
VM-20/Pe-2F
VM-21/Pe-2R
VM-22/DVB-202: projected four-engine strategic long-range, high-altitude bomber, 1944
VM-23/DVB-302: projected four-engine strategic long-range, high-altitude bomber, 1945
VM-24/RB-17: projected tactical jet bomber, 1945
M-25/M-4 "Bison": company designation for M-4
M-26 (I): M-4 powered by VD-7 engines, 1951
M-26 (II): projected four-engine military transport aircraft, 1960
M-27: projected two or four engine jet airliner, 1952
M-28/2M: four-engine high-altitude bomber, 1951
M-29/M-6P: projected airliner derived from the M-4, 1953
M-30 (I): projected high-altitude reconnaissance aircraft, 1953
M-30 (II): nuclear powered canard wing supersonic bomber, 1959
M-31: projected transonic strategic bomber, 1952
M-32: projected delta-wing supersonic strategic bomber, 1953
M-33: Yak-1000 development, 1951
M-34: transonic bomber, 1953
M-36: company designation for 3M
M-39: 3M powered by VD-7V turbojets, 1957
M-50 "Bounder" prototype supersonic bomber, 1954
M-51: unmanned M-50, 1956
M-52: supersonic strategic missile carrier developed from the M-50, 1956
M-53: projected SST, 1958
M-54: tailless delta-wing supersonic strategic missile carrier, 1959
M-55: various SST studies, 1958
M-56: canard or delta supersonic strategic missile carrier, 1956, very similar to XB-70
M-57: nuclear powered bomber project, 1959
M-58: tailless supersonic bomber, 1958
M-59: canard wing supersonic missile carrier, 1959
M-60: nuclear powered bomber project developed from the M-50, 1955
M-70: supersonic flying boat, 1955
1967-present
M-12: STOL/VTOL utility aircraft, 1968
M-13: military transport, 1968
M-17 "Mystic-A": high-altitude reconnaissance aircraft, 1970
M-18: supersonic bomber design, 1972; cancelled in favor of the Tupolev Tu-160
M-19: hypersonic air and space plane; various engine and fuel types, 1974
M-20: strategic multi-regime supersonic bomber, many aerodynamic configurations, 1968
M-25: supersonic attack aircraft, used its own shockwave as a weapon, 1969
M-35/VM-T: 2 M-4s converted to carry the space shuttle Buran, 1977
M-52 eight-engine heavy transport aircraft, 1979
M-55 "Mystic-B": high-altitude research and reconnaissance aircraft, 1985
M-60: widebody airliner projects; many variants, 1985–2003
M-61/M-17PV: development of M-17, 1984
M-62 Oryol: high-altitude remote-controlled drone, 1975
M-63: high-altitude aircraft, 1981
M-65/M-17P: M-17 development, 1986
M-67: high-altitude observation aircraft, 1987
M-70 Gzhel: single-engine business/executive transport aircraft, 1989; renamed to M-101
Spacecraft
Space Adventures C-21
Space Adventures M-55X
Buran program, cockpit
Cosmopolis XXI suborbital craft
Missiles
RSS-40 Buran, nuclear cruise missile project
M-44 aerospace vehicle project
Myasishchev Project 46 spaceplane project
Myasishchev Project 48 spaceplane project
M-48/VKA-23 spaceplane project