BOR-5

BOR-5
BOR-5 No. 502 at the Central Air Force Museum in Russia
General information
Type	Unmanned 1:8 scale re-entry test vehicle
National origin	Soviet Union
Number built	5
History
First flight	5 June 1984

The BOR-5 (Russian: БОР-5, «Беспилотный Орбитальный Ракетоплан 5», romanized: Bespilotnyi Orbital'nyi Raketoplan 5, lit. 'Unpiloted Orbital Rocketplane 5') is a 1:8 sized test flight vehicle, used to study the main aerodynamic, thermal, acoustic and stability characteristics of the Buran. It follows upon the BOR-4 reentry test vehicle.

It was put into a suborbital trajectory by a K65M-RB5 rocket launched from Kapustin Yar, near Volga, towards Lake Balkhash.^[1]