The Bisnovat 5 (Бисноват 5) was a supersonic research aircraft designed in the USSR in the late 1940s, inspired by the German DFS 346 aircraft that was captured by Soviet troops towards the end of World War II.

Matus Ruvimovich Bisnovat (Russian: Матус Рувимович Бисноват, 23 October 1905, Nikopol – 8 November 1977) was a Soviet aircraft and missile designer. Bisnovat attended the Moscow Aviation Institute (MAI), graduating in 1931.

The SK-1, (Skorostnoye Krylo – high speed wing), was a research aircraft designed and built in the USSR from 1938. After working as an engineer under Tairov at the OKO in Kiev, Bisnovat was permitted to form his own OKB with the task of designing and building a high speed research aircraft, which emerged as the SK-1.

The SK aircraft was designed in the 26th department of TsAGI (designer Matus Ruvimovich Bisnovat) since 1938 as an experimental device designed to achieve maximum flight speeds of the order of 700–800 km/h.

Feb 22, 2017 · Bisnovat SK-1: So K-ool. This utterly slick thing was Matus Bisnovat’s OKB contribution to the plethora of stunning high-speed aircraft made around the world at the end of the 1930’s-early 1940’s.

Page details technical specifications, development, and operational history of the Bisnovat SK-2 (Skorostnoye Krylo) Single-Seat, Single-Engine Fighter Prototype including pictures.

A direct result of high-speed wing research conducted at the TsAGI (Central Aerodynamics and Hydrodynamics Institute) by a team headed by Matus Bisnovat, the SK-2 single-seat fighter was evolved from the SK (skorostnoye krylo, or high-speed wing) …

The Bisnovat (later Molniya then Vympel) R-40 (NATO reporting name AA-6 'Acrid') is a long-range air-to-air missile developed in the 1960s by the Soviet Union specifically for the MiG-25P interceptor, but can also be carried by the later MiG-31. It is one of the largest production air-to-air missiles ever developed.

Bisnovat was assigned the project to develop an all-Soviet equivalent to the 346 supersonic rocketplane being developed by the German Roessing team in OKB-2. Status : Cancelled 1949. Thrust : 19.60 kN (4,406 lbf).

The Central Institute of Power and Fluid Dynamics (TsAGI), headed by Matus Bisnovat, carried out research in the area involving the 1939-1940 high-speed monoplane Speedster SK/SK-1 ("Skorostnoye Krylo"), and this work was used to develop A combat-capable monoplane named after him - Bisnovat "SK-2".