REQUEST FOR DESCRIPTION AND MENSURATION OF SELECTED SITES AT TTMTC

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: NGA Records (Formerly NIMA)
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP78T05439A000400370053-3
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: T
• Document Page Count: 19
• Document Creation Date: December 28, 2016
• Document Release Date: September 26, 2000
• Sequence Number: 53
• Publication Date: March 5, 1965
• Content Type: MF

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This memorandum is in response to your requirement which
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r quests description and mensuration of selected sites at the Tyuratam
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ssile Test Center (TTMTC).
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~~' 2. For a, b, and c under specific requirements, a short textual
description and a line drawing of eaeh.launch site has been included.
The description is a brief history of the site, the type if applicable,
and association with other sites. The line drawings furnish further
descriptive details as 'well as pertinent dimensions. Ditching for
~possiti].e cable connections to other sites is also shown.
.3. Additional information on the launch sites listed in the
requirement can be found in the following NPIC reports on Complex G:
NPIC/R-85/3, NPIC/R-288/63, NPTC/R-33+/63?
5. .The search for additional single-silos at Tyuratam was conducted
w~.th negative results with the following exception: The function of launch
s~te B-3 Because of poor quality and
i sufficient cOVer dur~.ng the construction period of this site and evidence
o an excavation during its construction, the possibility of one or more
ated at this site. The search was conducted on Mission
the most recent cloud-free cover of TTMTC.
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This project is considered to be complete..
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Colonel, USA
Assistant for Photographic Analysis, NPIC
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fI)istribution:
Enclosure:
? _ Dzscription of~`3aunch sites
line drawings
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18-CIA/PID (w/enc),
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25-DIAXX-3C ~w/enc~~
24-DTAXX-3A w/enc)
22-OPNAV 922Y
23-Army/sPAD
21-AFNIE-EA
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served single silo launch site under construction~
Construction at this site was first observed on ',,
and can be negated on photography of Mission
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At this Type III C launch site is an excavation containing a silo
measuring 55 by 45 feet, with an aperture of about- diameter. The site
access road approaches"the silo from the north but turns to form a roughly
circular loop dust at .the northwest corner of the silo excavation. Just
inside the security ~'~nce is a building measuring 150 by.~0 ~eet~ and dust
east. of ~e silo is one other building measuring tS0 by 35 feed Other than
these bni.ldings, the o ly other significa3it items irisible within the security
~ence~'are several di piles and en exca~tetion which measures 120 by 55 feet.
A ground scar leads ~-this launch situ to launch site~`I.
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Launch Site B 2.is located at 45-59N/63-33E and contains a~road served
Pringle silo launch site under construction. This type I1L,~C launch site was `
' ':first seen'in photography of and can be negated on Mission ~
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