PROBABLE MISSILE FACILITIES AT CHINESE AIRFIELDS

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• Publication Date: November 1, 1967
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PHOTOGRAPHIC INTERPRETATION REPORT
PROBABLE MISSILE FACILITIES
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 INTRODUCTION
Four installation patterns have been observed at
various Chinese Communist airfields. Most of the air-
fields are comparatively new. One pattern is found
only at airfields along the northern and western borders.
The other three patterns are found mainly in the southern
portion of the country, However, a few are on the east
coast (Figure 1).
The first pattern identified was the probable air-to-
air missile (AAM) facility observed at Wu-hu Airfield.
Although the facility contains revetted buildings similar
to regular ammunition storage facilities, the location of
the facility is not typical of revetted ammunition .storage
facilities found at Chinese airfields. Ammunition storage
facilities are normally isolated some distance from the
airfield while the probable AAM facility is located im-
mediately off the parallel taxiway. This location is similar
to that of the AAM facilities observed at USSR airfields.
Another variant from the normal ammunition storage
facility is the presence of a building with adrive-through
capability. The location of the facility, the presence of a
building with adrive-through capability, and its construc-
tion timing,. coinciding with the arrival of Fishbed at the
airfield, lead to its identification.
The location of the probable AAM facilities at the
other airfields does not correspond to that at Wu-hu Air-
field. The AAM facilities are not adjacent to the taxiway
but are located off an aircraft dispersal area. Each fa-
cility has at least one building with adrive-through cap-
ability and associated buildings, all of which correspond
closely in size to buildings found in the Soviet AAM fa-
cilities and in a section of the Shuang-cheng-tzu air-to-
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surface missile (ASM} facility.
'The airfields at which these facilities are observed
are located in the southern and ~ eastern portions of the
country, a logical location for AAM-equipped interceptors.
According to the DIA Sino-Soviet Bloc Aircraft Technical
Characteristics And Performance Handbook, the Fresco,
Farmer, and Fishbed all have a missile armament capability.
The second pattern to be identified is tentatively
categorized as a suspect air-to-surface missile (ASM}
facility. It was first observed at Ha-mi Airfield. For
some time, this installation was not identified. A DIA
cable (Cite DIAAP-4B1 953/b6} identifies two of the build-
ings, the T-shaped drive-through building and its small
associated building, as a possible AAM facility. A sim-
ilar pattern was later observed at other airfields along
the northern and western borders of China. Its signature
consists of five buildings usually situated near a hangar
area. The timing of construction was compared with that
of the probable AAM facilities located in the south and
east regions of China and found to be approximately the
same. This fact, plus the differences in signatures of
the two facilities and their location at the airfield and
within the country, indicate that they serve a different
function, POL storage was considered since some Chi-
nese Communist POL facilities have a building with a
drive-through capability. However, this was eliminated
since no storage facilities or pipelines could be identi-
fied. Electronics facilities were also discarded since
no antennas were observed, A comparison was made
with facilities at Shuang-cheng-tzu (SCT}. The highboy
portion of the T-shaped, drive-through building was found
to be almost identical in size to the drive-through check-
out building at Launch Complex C. Also within the SCT
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ASM area is a step-down building, which,- although larger,
is similar to one of the five buildings forming the signature
discussed above, leading to the tentative title of suspect
ASM facility.
The ASM is usually associated with the Kennel, Kipper,
Kangaroo, or Kitchen, which are carried by the Badger,
Bear, and Blinder. While China has only two Badger and
a few Bull which could be utilized to carry this type of
ASM, they do have Beagle, Bat, and fighter aircraft which
could be utilized to carry an ASM of the size and weight
NPIC is not aware of whether or not the Chinese
Communists have the capability of producing such an ASM.
The third pattern is titled "probable missile-associa-
ted facility." It was first observed adjacent to several,
but not all, of the probable AAM facilities. It was later
observed at other airfields where no AAM facility has as
yet been observed. The location of the facility adjacent
to the probable AAM facility and its similarity to a sec-
tion of the Akhtubinsk/Vladimirovka Airfield Missile Fab-
rication Complex and buildings in the suspect ASMfacilities
lead to this identification.
The fourth pattern is mare vague, and there is no
definite signature. The location of each facility and sim-
ilarities to the first three patterns lead to a tentative
identification as a suspect missile facility.
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An installation pattern that has tentatively been iden-
tified as asuspect-air-to-surface missile (ASM) facility
has been observed at Wu-sha-ta-la (Figure 2), Chang-chi
(Figure 3), Ha-mi (Figure 4), Ho-tien (Figure 5), Wu-mao-
chieh (Figure 6), and Lin-tao (Figure 7) Airfields.
Each facility includes five buildings as its signature:
A T-shaped, high bay, drive-through building with a small
building in the immediate vicinity, a second T-shaped
building, a long building with either a monitor roof or a
long row of vents, and a stepdown building similar, al-
though smaller, to the step-down building in the Shuang-
cheng-tzu Airfield ASM area (Figure 8).
The buildings are usually situated near a hangar area,
approximately one nautical mile (nm) from a runway. The
high bay section of the T-shaped, drive-through building is
approximately the size of the 60-by-30 foot drive-through
checkout building in the checkout area of Launch Complex
C, identified as acruise-missile facility, a[ Shuang-cheng-
tzu Missile Test Center. The drive-through building in
the checkout area is a duplicate of the one in a checkout
area off the road to the launch sites at the Lien-shan
Cruise Missile Complex.
PROBABLE AIR-TO-AIR
MISSILE FACILITIES
A second installation pattern is identified as a prob-
able air-to-air missile (AAM} facility. It is observed at
Wu-hu 1/, Tien-yang (Figure 9), Ning-ming (Figure 10),
Kuei-yang/Lei-Chuang (Figure 11 ), Mo-tou (Figure 12),
and Meng-tzu West (Figure 13) Airfields.
Each facility contains one or two drive-through build-
ings and associated storage buildings. The sizes of the
buildings correspond closely to the buildings in the USSR
AAM facilities and at the Shuang-cheng-tzu ASM facility.
This installation pattern, with the exception of Wu-hu, is
always situated off an aircrafr dispersal area at the end
of the airfield. They are also similar to the probable AAM
A possible AAM facility is identified at Ching-Chiang
Airfield (Figure 14). This installation was previously
identified as an ammunition storage area. However, two
of the buildings present in ~ now have adrive-through
capability. Also, an additional aircraft dispersal area
has been constructed at the same end of the airfield. In
addition to the two drive-through buildings, the facility
contains 15 associated buildings.
A second possible AAM facility is located at Hsu-
pu Airfield (Figure 15). Although no drive-through build-
ing has been identified, the number and sizes of the build-
ings correspond to those at the Ning-ming probable AAM
facility. This is the first possible AAM facility not as-
sociated with an aircraft dispersal area.
ASSOCIATED FACILITIES ~
A probable missile-associated facility is observed
near the probable AAM facility at Tien-yang (Figure 9)
and Ning-ming (Figure 10) Airfields and at Kuei-lin/Li- ('
Chia-tsun Airfield (Figure 16). A possible missile-as- ~~
sociated facility is observed at Hsu-pu (Figure 15) and
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Each facility contains five buildings: Along building
with a monitor roof, an L-shaped building, and three as-
sociated buildings. These buildings are similar to those
associated with the T-shaped, drive-through. building in
the suspect ASM facilities and to buildings in a section
of the Akhtubinsk/Vladimirovka Airfield Missile Fabri-
cation Complex (Figure 18) where an ASM has been ob-
served, However, the buildings in [he USSR are approx-
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A fourth pattern, although vague, has been identified
as a suspect missile facility. It is observed at Meng-tzu
West Airfield (Figure 13), in addition to the probable
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AAM facility at this site, and at Yen-cheng (Figure 19),
Lei-yang (Figure 20), and Pei-tun (Figure 21) Airfields.
Each facility contains at least four buildings with j^
some similarities to the above facilities. At two air-
fields, these facilities are located off the parallel taxiway T
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similar to the Wu-hu probable AAM facility. At the third
airfield, it is located off an aircraft dispersal area, ^~
and at the fourth it is isolated from the field. ~
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FIGURE 3. CHANG-CHI AIRFIELD, CHINA
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FIGURE b. WU MAD-CHIEH AIRF7EL.0, CHINA,Q
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FIGURE 7. LIN-TAO AIRFfELD, CHINA.
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FIGURE i8. AKHTUBINSK/VL ADIMIROVKA AIRFIELD, USSR,
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AIRFIELO COORDINATES ELEVATION RUNWAY DIMENSIONS AIRCRAFT DRIVE-THROUGH
(Ft) AND ORIENTATION BUILDING (Ff)
BARANDVICHI
SHUANG-CHENG-TZU ASM j~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~j 1100 90 x 35 100 X 25
'Possible drive-through
AIRFIELD COORDINATES ELEVATION RUNWAY DIMENSIONS AIRCRAFT
(Fd AND ORIENTATION
HA-MI 42 SIN - 93 38E 2,700 7,750 x 160 WNW/ESE Tronsporr
HO-TIEN 3703N - 7951E 3,500 9,240x 165 WNW/ESE Tronspon
CHANG-CHI .43 SbN - 87 ObE 3,000 8,790 z 165 NW/ES Tran span Hel copier
LIN-TAO 35 18N -103 b0E 5,000 8,550 z 185 NNE/SSW Small Swept-wing
WU-SHA-TA-LA 42 ION - 87 12E 3,000 10,880 x 170 WNW/ESE Badger
WU-MAO-CHIEH 4039N -109 03E 3,000 8,000 z 160 E/W Small 8rra ighr-wing
SCT CH ECKOUTSILE ~jjjjjjj/~jjjjj~jjjjj/~jj/~jjj~
WU-HU 31 24N - 118 23E
TIEN-YENG 2344N-10658E
NING-MING 22 O7N - 107 07E
KUEI-YANG/LEI-CHUANG 2625N-10632E
MO-TOU
MENG-iZU WEST
32 ISN - 120 30E
23 24N - 103 19E
CHING-CHIANG 28 02N - 115 31E
HSU-PU 27 56N - 110 40E
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7,140 x 200 ENE/WSW F ishbed, Former
7,350 z 160 NW/SE None
575 7,210 z 155 ENE/WSW Small Swept-Wing
4,035 8,225 x 175 NNW/3SE Small
p 7,220 z 155 NW/SE Small Swept-Wing
4,300 8,250 x 175 NW/SE Fishbed, Farmer
12,150 z 275 NE/SW Former, Fagot/Fresco
500 7,210 z 155 NE/SW Small
T-SHAPED DRIVE-THROUGH
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