UNIDENTIFIED SURFACE-TO-AIR MISSILE LAUNCH EXERCISE USSR

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• Document Creation Date: December 28, 2016
• Document Release Date: November 21, 2006
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• Publication Date: November 12, 1965
• Content Type: REPORT

12 November 19 65
UNIDENTIFIED SURFACE-TO-AIR MISSILE LAUNCH EXERCISE
USSR
3. LOCATION:
OBSERVATION OF AN UNKNOWN SURFACE-TO-AIR
MISSILE AND ITS ASSOCIATED GUIDANCE/TRACK-
I G RADAR.
AN UNIDENTIFIED SURFACE-TO-AIR MISSILE
AND ASSOCIATED MISSILE GUIDANCE/TRACKING
RADAR WERE REVEALED IN THE FILM, "ROCKETS
IN DEFENSE OF PEACE", WHICH WAS TELECAST ON
MOSCOW TV ON 9 MAY 65, FOLLOWING THE MOSCOW
PARADE OF THAT DATE.
ANALYSIS OF KNOWN SOVIET MISSILE RANGES RE-
VEALS THAT THE FIRING SEQUENCE SHOWN IN THE
FILM PROBABLY OCCURRED AT LAUNCH PAD B-1,
LAUNCH COMPLEX BY SARY-SHAGAN ANTIMISSILE
TEST CENTER.
4. MISSILE CHARACTERISTICS: PRELIMINARY ANALYSIS OF THE LAUNCH SEQUENCE
ALLOWS DEFINITION OF SOME CHARACTERISTICS OF
THE UNIDENTIFIED SURFACE-TO-AIR MISSILE
SHOWN ON A RAIL-TYPE LAUNCHER:
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5. FIRE WHEEL CHARACTERISTICS:
THE MISSILE DISPLAYS A ROCKET-POWERED BOOSTER
AND PROBABLY USES A TANDEM BOOSTER/SUSTAINER
COMBINATION WITH SEPARABLE-BOOSTER.
THE BOOSTER'S FINS ARE RECTANGULAR, SIMILAR
TO THOSE OF THE GOA'S BOOSTER.
TEE SUSTAINER FINS APPEAR TO BE RELATIVELY
LARGE DELTA-CONFIGURED SURFACES.
A TRAINABLE LAUNCH RAIL APPEARED TO LAUNCH
THE MISSILE AT AN ELEVATION OF 50-60 DEGREES.
FIRE WHEEL IS AN S-BAND FIRE CONTROL RADAR.
RING BRACE WHICH IS ROUGHLY HALF THE DIAMETER
OF THE REFLECTOR.
IN DIAMETER AND IS USUALLY MOUNTED NEAR THE
END OF A TWO-AXLE TRAILER. IT HAS 8 FULL
BRACES AND 8 HALF RADIAL BRACES, THE LATTER
GOING FROM THE EDGE OF THE REFLECTOR TO A
THE PARABOLIC DISH IS APPROXIMATE
6. FILMED RADAR CHARACTERISTICS: THE RADAR SHOWN IN THE FILM SEQUENCE CONSISTS
OF 2 FIRE WHEEL DISHES, PEDESTAL-MOUNTED ON
A ]PLATFORM, AND A THIRD UNIDENTIFIED SMALLER
DISH, ESTIMATED TO BE APPROXIMATELY ONE-HALF
These notes have been prepared for briefing purposes only and should not be used for detailed analytical work.
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only for the reporting period as indicated by the date of issue.
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THE SIZE OF EACH OF THE LARGER DISHES AND
MOUNTED AT THEIR SIDE. THE PEDESTAL IS
TYPICAL OF THAT OF A SINGLE STEERABLE
DISH MOUNTING., WITH PROVISION ON TOP FOR
3 DISHES. THE CONFIGURATION OF THE ENTIRE
SET IS THAT OF AN UNIDENTIFIED GUIDANCE/
TRACKING RADAR.
BASED 0 HIS RADAR IS
IDENTIFIED AS PROBABLY LOCATED ADJOINING
THE NW CORNER OF THE UNDERGROUND CONTROL
CENTER NEAR LAUNCH PADS B-1 AND B-2.
7. FILMED RADAR CAPABILITIES: THIS EQUIPMENT APPEARS TO HAVE A 360 DEGREE
TRACKING CAPABILITY. IN THE FILM SEQUENCE,
THE RADAR WAS SHOWN MOVING FROM A STOWED TO
A TRACKING POSITION DURING THE MISSILE LAUNCH,
WITH THE BORESIGHT GENERALLY ORIENTED TOWARD
THE LAUNCH PAD. AT LEAST THE 2 LARGE FIRE
WHEELS MOVED IN THE SAME PLANE DURING THE
ENTIRE SEQUENCE. THE SMALLER UNIDENTIFIED
DISH IS OBSCURED BY THE LARGER DISHES DURING
THE MAJORITY OF THE FILM SEQUENCE.
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only for the reporting period as indicated by the date of issue
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8. ADDITIONAL OBSERVATIONS: A SUSPECT SECOND UNIDENTIFIED GUIDANCE
TRACKING RADAR IS OBSERVED ONI
CONTROL CENTER. THIS WAS NOT OBSERVED
IN THE SOVIET FILM. IT IS POSITIONED
ON A PLATFORM AND PEDESTAL SIMILAR TO
THAT PREVIOUSLY DESCRIBED. DETAILS OF THE
DISH CANNOT BE OBSERVED.
IN THE FILM SEQUENCE, A SEMI-CIRCULAR WALL,
PARTIALLY EMCOMPASSING THE LAUNCH POSI-
TION, IS OBSERVED. THIS IS SIMILAR TO
THE WALLS WHICH PARTIALLY EMCOMPASS LAUNCH
PADS B-1 AND B-2 AT LAUNCH COMPLEX B.
These notes have been prepared for briefing purposes only and should not be used for detailed analytical work.
Their use should be restricted to the particular briefing board(s
only for the reporting period as indicated by the date of issue.
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PREPARED BY: CSD/Research Branch
Director, NPIC
Chief, CSD REF BB Unit
DIA.
Chief,
RB/CSD/NPIC
PAG, (Attn:
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Files/SBS/RB CSD
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These notes have been prepared for briefing purposes only and should not be used for detailed analytical work.
Their use should be restricted to the particular briefing board(
only for the reporting period as indicated by the dote of issue.
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