PROBABLE LONG RANGE SAM MISSILE TRANSPORTER USSR

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: NGA Records (Formerly NIMA)
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• Document Creation Date: December 28, 2016
• Document Release Date: May 29, 2003
• Sequence Number: 18
• Publication Date: April 1, 1967
• Content Type: REPORT

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PHOTOGRAPHIC INTERPRETATION REPORT
PROBABLE
USSR
MISSILE TRANSPORTER
LONG RANGE SAM
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The purpose of this report is to provide
photographic and mensural data for a piece of
ground support equipment associated with the
Probable Long Range SAM (PLRS) system. The
ground photography used in this report was
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The 2 pieces of equipment were observed
in the Krasnaya Presnya railyard in Moskva,
was not shown in the May Day Parade of 1966.
At the time of the initial sighting
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the 2 pieces of equipment as trans-
porter trailers (probable missile) pulled by 2
ZIL-157 tractor-trucks. 1/
The equipment photographed in the railyard
consists of a ZIL-157V truck-tractor, which is
utilized with the SA-1 and SA-2 systems, and a
stepdown semitrailer with single-wheel tandem
axles. The use of a tandem axle semitrailer is
indicative of a heavier load than that of the
single-axled SA-1 and SA-2 missile trans-
porters.
The semitrailer has an overall length of
eet high to the top
of the canvas-covered trailer load. The over-
of the truck-tractor and semitrailer
Subsequent overhead photographic coverage
of the PLRS complexes at Tallinn and Liepaja in
Figures 3 and
4) revealed missile transporters. The trans-
porters at Tallinn had a series of highlights
perpendicular to the long axis of the semitrailer
which are probably tubular framework used to
support the canvas cover. The highlight effect
seen at Tallinn might have been caused by canvas
gathered on the tubular supports. The tubular-
type of canvas support has been seen associated
with the SA-2 missile transporter.
The equipment at Tallinn and Liepaja also
consists of a ZIL-157 truck-tractor and a
semitrailer, having an overall length of 50
feet and a It could not be
determined from the overhead photography
whether the trailer had single-wheeled tandem
axles, but it did appear to be of stepdown con-
figuration. Based on the similarities in con-
figuration, equipment, and mensural data, the
equipment I is most
likely the missile transporter forthe PLRS sys-
tem. Figure 5 provides a schematic diagram of
the truck-tractor and semitrailer, with mensu-
ral data obtained from the ground photography.
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FIGURE 3. TALLINN PROBABLE LONG RANGE SAM LAUNCH COMPLEX.
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