Alexander Bereznyak

Alexander Yakovlevich Beresnjak (Russian Александр Яковлевич Березняк; * 3 Dezemberjul / December 16 1912greg in Bojarkino in Kolomna, .. † 7 July 1974 in Dubna ) was a Soviet rocket designer. He was from March 1957 to chief engineer of the construction office MKB Raduga ( МКБ Радуга ), an offshoot of the OKB -155 Mikoyan -Gurevich, in Dubna.

Life

Since 1931 Beresnjak worked in the aviation industry, in 1938 he graduated from Moscow State Aviation Institute (MAI ). He worked in the design office of Viktor Fyodorovich Bolchowitinow. Together with Alexei Isayev he developed from 1941, the rocket plane Bolchowitinow BI -1. Since 1946, he was deputy chief designer of the occupied with German specialists OKB- 2 under the direction of Heinz Rössing. Until 1949 he was responsible for the testing of rocket-propelled aircraft OKB- 2346. In 1951 he was commissioned to develop the aviation ministry cruise missiles. In 1957 he was chief engineer of his own experimental design offices.

Aircraft

• Bolchowitinow BI-1
• OKB -2 346P, simplified version of the 346 for Gleiterprobungen
• OKB- 2346
• Built OKB -2 486im OKB -2 by Siegfried Günter Deltaflügler developed based on the 346, just a wind tunnel model

Resulting During his leadership at MKB Raduga missile

• AS-1 Kennel: Anti- ship missile, 1955
• AS -2 Kipper: Anti- ship missile, 1961
• AS-3 Kangaroo: cruise missiles, 1959
• Raduga Ch- 22: cruise missiles, 1962
• AS -5 Kelt: cruise missiles, 1962
• Raduga Ch -26: Anti- ship missile, 1973
• AS -7 Kerry: Air - to-ground missile, 1968
• AS -9 Kyle: anti-radar missile, 1973
• AS -10 Karen (Ch -25 ): Air - to-ground missile, 1976
• AS -11 Kilter: anti-radar missile, 1984