NEW PROBABLE SA-2 HANDLING EQUIPMENT AT SOVIET SAM SITES USSR

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: NGA Records (Formerly NIMA)
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP78T05162A000300010065-7
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: T
• Document Page Count: 6
• Document Creation Date: December 28, 2016
• Document Release Date: August 9, 2011
• Sequence Number: 65
• Publication Date: November 1, 1973
• Content Type: REPORT

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PHOTOGRAPHIC
INTERPRETATION
REPORT
NATIONAL PHOTOGRAPHIC
INTERPRETATION CENTER
NEW PROBABLE SA-2 HANDLING
EQUIPMENT AT SOVIET SAM SITES
USSR
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NOVEMBER 1973
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1. A new piece of missile handling equipment, a transporter/ trailer probably for the SA-2,
has been seen on satellite photography at three SA-2 sites in the Soviet Union. Two of the sites
have similar hardened drive-in bunkers.
NEW PROBABLE SA-2 HANDLING EQUIPMENT AT SOVIET SAM SITES
2. This report contains three photographs, three location maps, and a provisional drawing of
the transporter/trailer.
3. A new piece of missile handling equipment has been identified on photography
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at Krasnovodsk SAM Site A28-2I lin the Baku Air Defense
District (ADD). The piece of equipment is a wheeled transporter/ trailer probably used to carry the
SA-2 missile.
4. The transporter/ trailer was also observed at Alma-Ata SAM Site A03-2
on photography Three transporters/ trailers have been
present at Sary-Shagan SAM Site E06-2
Both SAM sites are in the Tashkent ADD.
5. The specific function of the transporter/ trailer and its possible relationship to the hardened
drive-in bunker at Krasnovodsk and at Alma-Ata is unknown.
6. The wheeled transporter/trailer identified at Krasnovodsk SAM Site A28-2 (Figure 1) had
2). The transporter/ trailer was adjacent to the site's newly constructed and separately secured hardened
drive-in bunker.
an overall length of approximately 35 feet
7. At Alma-Ata SAM Site A03-2 the completed hardened drive-in bunker was also separately
fenced with the transporter/ trailer parked inside the fenced area (Figure 3).
8. At Sary-Shagan SAM Site E06-2 the three transporters/trailers were parked approximately
500 feet south-southeast of the central guidance area (Figure 4). No hardened drive-in bunker was
present at this site.
9. The presence of the transporters/trailers can be negated at Krasnovodsk in June 1973
, at Alma-Ata in August 1973F, and at Sary-Shagan in May 1972
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