JONAVA MRBM COMPLEX, USSR FIXED FIELD SITE

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• Collection: NGA Records (Formerly NIMA)
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• Document Creation Date: December 28, 2016
• Document Release Date: December 6, 2004
• Sequence Number: 43
• Publication Date: April 1, 1965
• Content Type: REPORT

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JONAVA MRBM COMPLEX, USSR
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JONAVA MRBM COMPLEX, USSR
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Launch Area No 1 (TDI name: Karmelava \1R13\1 Launch Site) -- Type II 5-I-57-15N 24-0G-OOR
Launch Area No 2 (TDI name: Jonava MR13M Launch Site) -- Type II 55-01-00:N 24-14-15F
Jonava lixcd Field 11RII1I Site ("1'111 name: haisiadory.: SSII Nixed Field Position) 5t-59-30y 21-29-001
This report supplements NPIC/R-160/63,
1/ which discusses the Jonava MRBM Complex,
which previously consisted of 2 Type II MRBM
launch areas.
The Jonava Fixed Field MRBM Site (Figure
1) is located in a sloping, heavily wooded area
at an approximate elevation of 265 feet, 7.7
nautical miles (nm) north of Kaisiadorys in
the Lithuanian SSR. Jonava MRBMLa.unch Area
No 1 is 13.4 nm to the west-southwest and Launch
Area No 2 is 8.7 nm to the west-northwest.
The rail yards at Kaunas, Jonava, or Kaisia-
dorys could serve as rail-to-road transfer points
for the complex. Launch Areas No 1 and 2 and
the field site are connected to each other and
to these points by primary and secondary,
probably all-weather roads.
The fixed field site can be negated
land was first
observed at which
time it consisted of apoorly defined roa pattern
and 4 clearings. The site was again observed
and
showed no appreciable change except for a
sharper definition of the road pattern and clear-
ings. When next covered
the site was identified as a
fixed field site. he road pattern and 4 clear-
ings had been improved, probably by removal
of vegetation and bulldozing. Each of the clear-
ings now had a definite circular area in the
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center and also contained an unidentified object.
They were now considered launch positions. In
addition, a possible structure and several uni-
dentified objects were observed in small clear-
ings associated with the site. The site wa25X1 D
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interpretation could not be made. The
site was last covered
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were apparent. The snow precluded %leter25X1 D
mination of objects in the launch positions, or
associated clearings.
The site (Figure 2) is situated on an
irregular road pattern which branches oft from
the local road pattern. The 4 launch positions
form a trapezoidal pattern and are separated
into 2 pairs of launch positions, 690 and 780
feet apart. The launch positions are irregular
in shape but each has a small, circular area
in the center approximately 60 feet indiameter.
The azimuth of the launch positions is approxi-
mately 235 degrees, which closely approximates
the azimuths of Launch Areas No 1 and 2, which
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small possible structures, approximately 40 by
20 and 30 by 20 feet, are located in a clearing
1,025 feet northwest of the center of the site.
A series of clearings is located along a road
4,160 feet southeast of the site and is directly
connected to the site. Several unidentified ob-
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jects have been observed in these clearings at parking vehicles or erecting tents as the launch
various times but none corresponding to the site does not have any associated large clear-
period of greatest activity at the site, which ings. No security fencing is evident around
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