AMM/SAM LAUNCH COMPLEX TALLINN, USSR

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: NGA Records (Formerly NIMA)
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP78T05929A000100010004-5
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: T
• Document Page Count: 4
• Document Creation Date: December 28, 2016
• Document Release Date: November 17, 2011
• Sequence Number: 4
• Publication Date: August 13, 1964
• Content Type: REPORT

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13 August 1964
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ANM/sAM LAUNCH COMPLEX
TALLINN, USSR
REVEALED A NEW AMM/SAM LAUNCH COMPLEX UNDER
CONSTRUCTION 13.3 NM WSW OF TALLINN,'ON THE SITE OF THE FORMER
VAANA AIRFIELD. THIS CCflV1PLEX WAS NOT PRESENT ON THE LAST COVERAGE,
REPORTED THE NEW COMM OF APPROXI-
MATELY 550 ACRES CONTAINED FIVE LAUNCH SITES WITH A TOTAL OF
THIRTY LAUNCH PADS, AN UNIDENTIFIED FACILITY AND A SMALL SUPPORT
AREA CONTAINING FOUR BUILDINGS. THE FIVE LAUNCH SITES, ALL ROAD
CONNECTED AND IN VARIOUS STAGES OF CONSTRUCTION, CONSISTS OF SIX
REVETTED LAUNCH PADS ARRANGED IN A CIRCULAR PATTERN WITH A DIA-
METER OF ABOUT 870 FT. THE PADS WHICH MEASURE 195 X 80 FT ARE
UNEVENLY SPACED AROUND THE CIRCLE AND ARE SERVICED BY LOOP ROADS.
DARK OBJECTS WERE POSITIONED ON SOME OF THE LAUNCH PADS.
AN UNIDENTIFIED FACILITY CONSISTING OF FIVE 195 X 80 FT PADS/
HARDSTANDS IS LOCATED 2,890 FT EAST OF THE LAUNCH SITES. EARTHERN
WALLS PARALLEL THE LONG AXIS OF THE PADS/HARDSTANDS. A DIMENSIONALLY
SIMILAR UNIDENTIFIED FACILITY HAS BEEN OBSERVED AT THE LENINGRAD
NW PROBABLE AMM COMPLEX.
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LAUNCH COMPLEX A AT SARY SHAGAN ANTIMISSILE TEST CENTER, SITE
3 PAD 5 IS SIMILAR TO THE TALLINN LAUNCH PADS. ALSO AN UNIDENTIFIED
INSTALLATION IN VERY EARLY STAGES OF CONSTRUCTION AND SIMILAR TO
THE TALLINN INSTALLATION WAS IDENTIFIED 8 NM EAST OF CHEREPOVETS,
ON
2. THIS MISSION REVEALS CONSTRUCTION CONTINUES. REVETMENT WALLS HAVE
BEEN CONSTRUCTED AT FIVE LAUNCH POSITIONS. ALL OF THE LAUNCH POSI-
TIONS ARE NOW PARTIALLY ENCLOSED BY REVETMENT WALLS. A DARK CIR-
ULAR OBJECT APPROXIMATELY IN DIAMETER IS VISABLE ON 25 OF
THE LAUNCH POSITIONS ON THE END NEAREST THE UNIDENTIFIED FACILITY.
AT ONE OF THE LAUNCH POSITIONS THERE ARE TWO DARK CIRCULAR OBJECTS
POSITIONED AT EACH END OF THE PAD APPROXIMATELY 155 FT. APART. A
SIMILAR PAIR OF OBJECTS POSITIONED APPROXIMATELY 150 FT. APART HAVE
BEEN IDENTIFIED AT SSATC LAUNCH COMPLEX A, SITE 3, PAD 5 ON KH
PHOTOGRAPHY OF JUL 64. A PARALLEL TRACE IS NOW OBSERVED ALONG THE
NORTH FENCE LINE AND IS PROBABLY A SECOND SECURITY FENCE UNDER
"ONSTRUCTION. NO CHANGES SINCE ARE OB-
3ERVED AT THE UNIDENTIFIED FACILITY.
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AMM/SAM LAUNCH COMPLEX
TALLINN, USSR
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