Kirovske (in US intelligence, ''Kirovskoye'') is a

Russian Air Force "Air March" , mascot = , anniversaries = 12 August , equipment = , equipment_label = , battles = , decorations = , batt ...

base located in Kirovske Raion, near the town of Kirovske,

Crimea Crimea, crh, Къырым, Qırım, grc, Κιμμερία / Ταυρική, translit=Kimmería / Taurikḗ ( ) is a peninsula in Ukraine, on the northern coast of the Black Sea, that has been occupied by Russia since 2014. It has a p ...

, Ukraine. The base is home to a detachment of the 929th State Flight Test Centre named for V. P. Chkalov. Kirovske was the primary

anti-submarine warfare Anti-submarine warfare (ASW, or in older form A/S) is a branch of underwater warfare that uses surface warships, aircraft, submarines, or other platforms, to find, track, and deter, damage, or destroy enemy submarines. Such operations are typi ...

(ASW) test and development center for

Soviet Naval Aviation Soviet Naval Aviation (AV-MF, for ''Авиация военно-морского флота'' in Russian, or ''Aviatsiya voyenno-morskogo flota'', literally "aviation of the military maritime fleet") was the naval aviation arm of the Soviet Na ...

, and it worked closely with the flight test center at

Akhtubinsk Akhtubinsk (russian: Ахту́бинск; kk, Ақтөбе, ''Aqtóbe'') is a town and the administrative center of Akhtubinsky District in Astrakhan Oblast, Russia, located on the left bank of the Akhtuba River (a tributary of the Volga), nor ...

.NEW BEAR VARIANT AKHTUBINSK FLIGHT TEST CENTER, USSR
June 25, 1982, CREST: CIA-RDP82T00709R000101760001-2, Central Intelligence Agency, Washington, DC. An interceptor regiment, the 136 IAP (136th Fighter Aviation Regiment) at Kirovske operated the

Sukhoi Su-9 The Sukhoi Su-9 ( NATO reporting name: Fishpot) was a single-engine, all-weather, missile-armed interceptor aircraft developed by the Soviet Union. Development The Su-9 emerged from aerodynamic studies by TsAGI, the Soviet aerodynamic center, ...

(ASCC: Fishpot) in the 1960s and 1970s. These were last seen at Kirovske in August 1979 before the runway was closed for expansion in the early 1980s.PHASEOUT OF FISHPOT IN APVO STRANYY AIRFIELDS USSR
February 1981, CREST: CIA-RDP81T00380R000100980001-5, Central Intelligence Agency, Washington, DC. Other aircraft such as the

Mikoyan-Gurevich MiG-15 The Mikoyan-Gurevich MiG-15 (russian: Микоя́н и Гуре́вич МиГ-15; USAF/DoD designation: Type 14; NATO reporting name: Fagot) is a jet fighter aircraft developed by Mikoyan-Gurevich for the Soviet Union. The MiG-15 was one o ...

(ASCC: Fresco) and

Sukhoi Su-7 The Sukhoi Su-7 ( NATO designation name: Fitter-A) is a swept wing, supersonic fighter aircraft developed by the Soviet Union in 1955. Originally, it was designed as a tactical, low-level dogfighter, but was not successful in this role. On th ...

(ASCC: Fitter) were known to be present at Kirovske in the 1970s. The base was used by the 326th Fighter Aviation Regiment between 1950 and 1979.

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