Kirovske / Kirovs'ke / Kirovskoye Goncharovka (pre 1953) | |
Ensign: | Flag of the Russian Aerospace Forces.svg |
Ensign Size: | 90px |
Location: | Kirovske, Crimea |
Country: | Ukraine |
Type: | Air Base |
Pushpin Map: | Crimea#Ukraine |
Pushpin Map Caption: | Location within Crimea##Location within Ukraine |
Pushpin Label: | Kirovske |
Operator: | Russian Aerospace Forces |
Used: | 1950 - present |
Icao: | URFJ |
Elevation: | 53m (174feet) |
R1-Number: | 10/28 |
R1-Length: | 3000m (10,000feet) |
R1-Surface: | Concrete |
Kirovske (in US intelligence, Kirovskoye)[1] (Russian: Кировское; Ukrainian: Кіровське ) is a Russian Aerospace Forces base located in Kirovske Raion, near the town of Kirovske, Crimea, Ukraine.
The base is home to a detachment of the 929th State Flight Test Centre named for V. P. Chkalov.[2]
Kirovske was the primary anti-submarine warfare (ASW) test and development center for Soviet Naval Aviation, and it worked closely with the flight test center at Akhtubinsk.[3]
An interceptor regiment, the 136 IAP (136th Fighter Aviation Regiment) at Kirovske operated the Sukhoi Su-9 (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.[4] Other aircraft such as the Mikoyan-Gurevich MiG-15 (ASCC: Fresco) and Sukhoi Su-7 (ASCC: Fitter) were known to be present at Kirovske in the 1970s.[5]
The base was used by the 326th Fighter Aviation Regiment between 1950 and 1979.[6]