USSR: A SOVIET ICBM WAS SHOWN TO THE PUBLIC FOR THE FIRST TIME SATURDAY DURING THE ANNUAL "OCTOBER REVOLUTION" DISPLAY OF MILITARY EQUIPMENT IN MOSCOW.

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• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP78B05708A000100030006-4
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• Document Creation Date: December 23, 2016
• Document Release Date: March 5, 2014
• Sequence Number: 6
• Publication Date: November 8, 1964
• Content Type: REPORT

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8 November 1964
Carl Duckett Comm
USSR: A Soviet ICBM was shown to the public for the
first time Saturday during the annual "October Revolution"
display of military equipment in Moscow.
This missile is either the SS-7 or the SS-8 both of
which have a range of over 6,000 n.m. The missile is about
90 feet long and twelve feet in diameter at the base. It is
a two stage missile using liquid propellants. While this
missile can be moved by road, it can only be fired from a
prepared site.
Another missile paraded through Red Square for the first
time is the SS-5 IRBM. This 2,200nm range missile was being
deployed to Cuba during the 1962 crisis. The missile is
about 78 feet long and its main body diameter is nearly eight
feet. The SS-5 is a single stage missile using storable liquid
propellants and, like the ICBMs also shown must be fired from
prepared sites.
A naval missile shown in the parade appears to be similar
but shorter than the Sark naval missiles shown on previous
occasions. This could be an operational missile developed
from the earlier Sark and might equate to the underwater
launched SS-N-5 missiles now carried by a small number of
Soviet ballistic missile submarines.
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Also shown for the first time was a missile in a
cannister described in the Soviet commentary as an anti-
missile missile. The cannister is about 80 feet long and
nine feet in diameter. Four rocket nozzle covers could be
seen on the missile but there was little other indication of
the missile's configuration.
At the present time, this missile cannot be specifically
equated with any missile known to have been tested in the
USSR, although anti-missile missiles are being developed at
Sary Shagan.
Preliminary attache reports and Soviet commentary indicates
that a new surface-to-air missile was shown for the first time.
Photographs of this weapon are not yet available. It could be
the SA-3, believed designed to intercept low-flying aircraft.
A new tactical weapon -- a truck mounted rack containing
40 rocket tubes -- was also displayed. Each tube was about
five inches in diameter and five feet long.
Many of the weapons shown for the first time probably
were being readied for the parade before Khrushchev was
deposed. The new Kremlin leaders undoubtedly felt that this
display of Soviet might would buttress their statements that
Soviet weapons development would go forward under the new
regime.
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