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{{Short description|Military airport in Chernihiv Oblast, Ukraine}}

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| name = Pryluky

| nativename name = Pryluky

| nativename = Прилуки

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| operator = [[Ukrainian Air Force]]

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| location = Pryluky

| elevation-f = 449

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'''Pryluky''' (also given as '''Priluki'''{{Lang-uk|Прилуки}}) is an air base in [[Chernihiv Oblast]], [[Ukraine]] located 6 km west of [[Pryluky]]. This airfield was Ukraine's primary [[Tupolev Tu-160]] bomber base (with [[Uzyn (air base)|Uzyn]] havinghosting the nation's [[Tupolev Tu-95]] fleet). There are revetments for 20 large aircraft.

==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]]s from 1950, [[Tupolev Tu-16|Tu-16]] aircraft beginning in 1955, then acquired the [[Tupolev Tu-22M|Tupolev Tu-22M4]] in 1984 and the [[Tu-160]] from 1987 until 2000.<ref name=DA>{{cite web| title = Dal'nyaya Aviatsiya | publisher = Aviabaza KPOI | url = http://airbase.ru/squad/russia/da/ }}</ref> It also flew the [[Tupolev Tu-134|Tu-134]]UBL trainer.<ref name=DA/>

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 PrilukiPryluky airbase is abandoned. Almost all equipment has been dismantled, including radar and lighting equipment. At the request of the United States, earthen revetments, bomb shelters, two fuel and lubricant depots, and other facilities at the air base were also destroyed. A [[Tupolev Tu-16]] monument still remains.

==References==

{{Reflist}}

<references />

[[Category:Soviet military air bases in the Ukrainian Soviet Socialist Republic]]

[[Category:Soviet Long Range Aviation bases]]

[[Category:Ukrainian airbases]]

[[Category:Ukrainian Long Range Aviation]]

[[Ukraine Long Range Aviation]]

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