EMBA MISSILE TEST RANGE , USSR

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: NGA Records (Formerly NIMA)
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP78T04743A000300030010-8
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: T
• Document Page Count: 1
• Document Creation Date: December 28, 2016
• Document Release Date: June 29, 2004
• Sequence Number: 10
• Publication Date: January 24, 1963
• Content Type: MF

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MEMORANDUM FOR: Chief, Offensive Systems Divieiaa, Q6i
FRt*d z Chief, CIA/PID (VIC)
SUBJECT s Rsaba. Missile Teat Range, U
R CE:. a Requirement OSI/289/62
b) CIA/PID Project c 1298.62
ATT TIONz
1. This remosaad~a is a partial answer to your requirement. dated 17 December
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The instrumented range layout resembles that associated with the surface-to.
surface missile launch facilities at both Kapustin Yar Missile Test Raange, USSR
and Shuang-Cheng-Tzu Missile Test Range, China. Also in the vicinity and asepciated
with the missile mange is a rail-served support area, an open storage area with
seven rail spurs,, barracks areas, and a new airfield (48-44R 58-02E) approximatdy
8,000 feet long, with 15 or 20 aircraft present.
2. Further analysis of the area 18 mm SSW of Rsba, USSR, reported. as a
possible missile associated area in OAK 9015, Part II, page 19, reveals that,this
activity is a surface-to-surface missile test. range. It contains one secured
road.-served launch area and one possible launch area at 48-33N 58-04K, an instru-
mented range, a support and storage area, and a new airfield.
The launch area consists of to launch pads under construction approximately
1,000 feet apart, a probable checkout building and s unidentified scarring.
The possible launch area is secured and contains a circular road pattern. These
two areas are situated near the apex of a V-shaped instr uentation pattern
containing at least nine instrumentation sites and extending for rapproximately
35 mm in?a SSd direction.
Although this area was snow-covered on snail-scale photography.,
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no construction activity was observed. Extensive track activity ~ s observed op
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photography probably associated with initial construction. F
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photography the range appeared to be nearing completion and on
hotograpbry the four major down-range inatrunentation sites, wader construction in
appeared to be coqpleted.
3. The photo auaiyst ca this project is and he may be contactee 5 1
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