COMMUNICATIONS FACILITIES AVAILABLE TO DEPLOYED SOVIET SA-5 SAM COMPLEXES

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• Publication Date: January 1, 1968
• Content Type: REPORT

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INTRODUCTION
This report has been prepared in response
to NSA Requirements NSA/P0432/R119-66 and
NSA/SOC/R47-66. One of these requested an ex-
amination o hotography for com-
munications common to Soviet SA-5 complexes.
The other requested a search of the Tallinn
area to identify the Tallinn Air Defense Zone
(ADZ) Headquarters and any associated air-
warning radar and communications facilities.
In the Tallinn area the indications are
that the Tallinn SA-5 Complex and the Tallinn
ADZ Headquarters are complementary and in-
terconnected components of the general air de-
fense situation. For this reason these 2 require-
ments are joined.
All known deployed SA-5 complexes (Fig-
ure 1) were examined for communications sys-
of this
limited
eluded.
report. Certain
search of later
hoto raphy through
I the cutoff date
items derived from a
missions are also in-
A summary of information concerning iden-
tified antennas is presented in Table 1.
GENERAL DISCUSSION
The major effort of this study was an at-
tempt to identify communications facilities avail-
able to Soviet SA-5 complexes. Although this
effort was successful to a degree, it must be
stated that something less than a complete pic-
ture of communications service available between
SA-5 complexes and higher echelons has emerged.
Two SA-5 complexes, Cherepovets and Tallinn,
do tend to give some insight, with respect to
such communications links, in that cable scars
can be traced from the SA-5 launch areas and
associated BACK NET/SIDE NET radar fa-
cilities to the vicinity of the communications
components serving conventional air-warning
facilities, or in the case of Tallinn, the ADZ
Headquarters. To this extent, therefore, it ap-
pears that the SA-5 complexes are a component
of the general air defense system and utilize
communications serving the same facilities that
are attendant to the air defense command of
the area as a whole. This conclusion is demon-
strated in this analysis of the Tallinn area.
Figures 2, 4, and 5 of this report show a
transmitting facility and a receiving facility which
are apparently connected by cables not only
to the Tallinn SA-5 Complex, but also to a
conventional air-warning radar facility (Figure 3).
A building area which is collocated with the
conventional radar facility has been identified
as the Tallinn ADZ Headquarters. It would
appear that the Tallinn SA-5 Complex, its as-
sociated BACK NET/SIDE NET site, the con-
ventional air-warning radar facility, the Tal-
linn ADZ Headquarters, and its associated re-
ceiving and transmitting facilities are all com-
ponents of the same general air defense system.
The probable commanding element in this sys-
tem would be the Tallinn ADZ Headquarters,
and the communications, conventional air-warn-
ing radar, and SA-5 complex are subordinate
elements in this system.
There are noticeable similarities between
the Cherepovets Air Defense Headquarters and
the Tallinn ADZ Headquarters. Both of these
facilities have available HF communications and
air-warning facilities, and are located near an
SA-5 launch complex.
TALLINN AIR DEFENSE ZONE
HEADQUARTERS AND AIR-WARNING
RADAR FACILITY
The Tallinn Air Defense Zone Headquarters
(Figures 2 and 3) is 6.5 nm south-southwest of
Tallinn at 59-21-55N 24-38-20E. The associated
air-warning radar facility was occupied by BAR
LOCK and ROCK CAKE/STONE CAKE radars
on mounds (see inset of Figure 3) on Mission
4036 and attended by 7 vans/trucks.
The ADZ Headquarters consists of 2 large
operations buildings and 7 smaller support build-
ings. A support/ training area is located just
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south of the Headquarters and contains a prob-
able microwave tower approximately 125 feet
high and a lattice tower of undetermined pur-
pose approximately 105 feet high.
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ADZ HEADQUARTERS COMMUNICATIONS
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SAM COMPLEX B28-5
ADZ Headquarters Communications Facilities
which, based on the identification of buried
cabling, are determined to be available to the
Tallinn SA-5 Complex (Figure 2).
The transmitting facility (Figure 4) is 9.5 nm
southeast of the launch complex at 59-18N 024-
36E and contains 6 mast-mounted probable VHF
antennas and 26 horizontal dipole antennas(Table
1). It is secured and supported by 2 control
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A buried cable which connects the SA-5
complex to its associated BACK NET/SIDE
NET radar facility continues on in a south-
easterly direction and can be traced to within
approximately 2 nm of this transmitting fa-
cility.
The receiving facility (Figure 5) which is
cable connected to the transmitting facility is
north of that facility at 59-20N 024-38E. It
contains 6 mast-mounted probable VHF an-
tennas and 6 horizontal dipole antennas (Table
1). The facility is secured and is supported by
2 control buildings, 2 utility buildings, and 5
communications vans.
A THICK EIGHT HF/DF facility (Fig-
ure 2) is southwest of the ADZ Headquarters
at 59-10-50N 024-37-45E.
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FIGURE 10. COMMUNICATIONS FACILITY POSSIBLY ASSOCI-
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the proximity of the Cherepovets SA-5 Complex
(Figure 6). Communications Facility 1 (Figure
7) is 2.6 nm west-northwest of the launch com-
complex at 59-07N 038-04E. It contains 4 mast-
mounted probable VHF antennas, and 3 hor-
izontal dipole antennas. The facility is secured
and is supported by a control building, 3 utility
buildings, and 4 communications vans.
Communications Facility 2 (Figure 8) is
4.6 nm west-northwest of the launch complex
at 59-07N 038-01E. The facility contains a
microwave tower and a horizontal dipole an-
tenna. The microwave tower is not identifiable
by type, but it resembles a MERCURY PLATE
installation. This facility is supported by a con-
trol building, 3 utility buildings, and 4 com-
munications vans.
CHEREPOVETS AIR DEFENSE
HEADQUARTERS AND AIR-WARNING
RADAR FACILITIES
The Cherepovets Air Defense Headquarters
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FIGURE 11. COMMUNICATIONS FACILITY POSSIBLY ASSOCI-
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and 2 Air-Warning Radar Facilities (Figures 6
and 8) are all within the same fenced area 4.0
nm south-southeast of Cherepovets at 59-07-35N
038-02-OOE.
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radars attended by 7 vans/trucks parked in a
large revetment. The other radar facility con-
tains the BACK NET/SIDE NET radars in
support of the Cherepovets SA-5 Complex.
The Air Defense Headquarters Facility con-
sists of 1 earth-mounded building, 1 operations
building, and 12 support buildings. A communi-
cations cable scar leads from the Headquarters
Facility to Communications Facility 1, described
above, and thence can be traced part of the way
to the SA-5 launch complex. Another communi-
cations cable trench leads from the Headquarters
Facility to Communications Facility 2, described
above.
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Table 1. Summary of Identified Antennas at Deployed SA-5 Complexes
Communications Facilities
Available to the SA-5
Complexes
Tallinn Transmitting Facility
(Figure 4)
Tallinn Receiving Facility
(Figure 5)
Cherepovets Communications
Facility 1, (Figure 7)
Cherepovets Communications
Facility 2, (Figure 8)
1 Horizontal dipole
2 Horizontal dipole
3 Horizontal dipole
4 Horizontal dipole
5 Horizontal dipole
6 Horizontal dipole
7 Horizontal dipole
8 Horizontal dipole
9 Horizontal dipole
10 horizontal dipole
11 Horizontal dipole
12 Horizontal dipole
13 Horizontal dipole
14 Horizontal dipole
15 Horizontal dipole
16 Horizontal dipole
17 Horizontal dipole
18 Horizontal dipole
19 Horizontal dipole
20 Horizontal dipole
21 Horizontal dipole
22 Horizontal dipole
23 Horizontal dipole
24 Horizontal dipole
25 Horizontal dipole
26 Horizontal dipole
None 6 Possible mast-
mounted VI IF
1 Horizontal dipole
2 Horizontal dipole
3 Horizontal dipole
4 Horizontal dipole
5 Horizontal dipole
6 Horizontal dipole
None 6 Possible mast-
mounted VHF
1 Horizontal dipole
2 Horizontal dipole
3 Iorizontal dipole
None 4 Possible mast-
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COMMUNICATIONS FACILITY POSSIBLY
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D34-5
A microwave tower is 2.5 nm west of the
Leningrad SAM Complex D34-5 (Figure 9).
The tower (Figure 10) is approximately 190
feet high and is secured. No cable trace or
similar direct connection could be identified
between the microwave tower and the launch
complex.
COMMUNICATIONS FACILITY POSSIBLY
AVAILABLE TO LENINGRAD SAM COMPLEX
D25-5
A microwave tower is 2.6 nm northwest of
the Leningrad SAM Complex D25-5 (Figure 9).
The tower (Figure 11) is approximately 110 feet
high and is secured. A possible landline can be
traced part of the way from the launch complex
toward the microwave tower.
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