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| | nativename = Прилуки | nativename-a = | nativename-r = | image | image-width | caption | IATA | ICAO | type | owner | operator | city-served | location | elevation-f | elevation-m | coordinates | pushpin_map = Ukraine Chernihiv Oblast#Ukraine
| pushpin_map_caption = Shown within Chernihiv Oblast | metric-elev = ▼ | | pushpin_label_position =
| | ▲| metric- | r1-surface = [[Concrete]] ({{convert|80|m|ft|abbr=on|disp=or}} wide)▼ | | | | | | r2-length-f = 8200 | r2-length-m = 2500 ▲| | stat-year = | stat1-header = | stat1-data | stat2-header = | stat2-data | footnotes | pushpin_relief = yes | module ={{Infobox mapframe |wikidata=yes |marker=airport |zoom=11|frame-height=260 | stroke-width=1 |coord={{WikidataCoord|display=i}}}} }} '''Pryluky''' ( ==History== In April 1946, the [[184th Guards Heavy Bomber Aviation Regiment]] (184 GvTBAP) arrived at Priluky, after being renamed from 9th Guards Long-Range Regiment.<ref>Piotr Butowski, International Air Power Review, Summer 2004, 81.</ref> It flew [[Tupolev Tu-4|Tu-4s]] Pryluky accepted the USSR's first [[Tu-160]] (Blackjack) in April 1987, building its fleet up to 19 by 1994. By the mid 1990s, the Pryluky Regiment had lost its value as a combat unit. The 184th GvTBAP's 19 "Blackjacks" were effectively grounded because of a lack of technical support, spare parts and fuel. At this point in time, Ukraine considered the Tu-160s more of a bargaining chip in their economic negotiations with Russia. Certainly, they were of very limited value to Ukraine from a military standpoint, but discussions with Russia concerning their return bogged down. Between October 1999 and February 2000 Ukraine turned over 8 Tu-160 bombers to [[Russia]] to pay off energy debts; these are now at Russia's [[Engels-2 (air base)|Engels-2]] air base. The last of Ukraine's strategic bombers, a Tu-160, was destroyed by agreement with the United States in February 2001. As of 2012, the ==References== {{Reflist}}
[[Category:Soviet military air bases in the Ukrainian Soviet Socialist Republic]] [[Category:Soviet Long Range Aviation bases]] [[Category:Ukrainian {{Chernihiv-geo-stub}} |