SS-16/-20 EQUIPMENT AT POSTAVY MOBILE IRBM BASE AND POSTAVY SSM TRAINING FACILITY, USSR

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• Publication Date: July 26, 1979
• Content Type: REPORT

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National ,Top Secret RUFF 26 JULY 1979
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i Center IMAGERY INFORMATION REPORT
SS-16/-20 EQUIPMENT AT POSTAVY MOBILE IRBM BASE AND
POSTAVY SSM TRAINING FACILITY, USSR
has revealed significant 25X1
details of SS-16/-20 equipment at Postavy Mobile IRBM Base (Figure 1), USSR, and
Postavy SSM Training Facility, which is approximately 2.5 nautical miles southwest of
the mobile base.
was identified for the first time at the Postav mobile 25X1
. Although it was observed earlie 2__5X1
r could not be identified because of the obliquity and 25X1
interpretability of that imagery the canister has been on the launch pad 25X1
beside the SS-4 erector for nearly a month, suggesting that the canister is probably empty.
Analysis of he previously identified SS-16/-20 transporter- 25X1
erector-launcher (TEL)/resupply vehicles at the SSM training facility (Figure 3) indicates
that the two vehicles are distinctly different. One of the vehicles is a confirmed SS-20 TEL
vehicle carrying load simulator similar to the one observed at Kapustin Yar 25X1
Missile/Space Test Center .This six-axle vehicle measures 25X1
long and, including the load simulator, 4.0 meters high. The other, partially canvas-
covered, six-axle vehicle remains unidentified. That vehicle, measuring 17.0 meters long
and 3.0 meters high including a rectangular lattice-type load simulator, is 2 meters longer
than any previously observed SS-20 vehicle. Although the function of the vehicle cannot be
determined at this time, there are two possibilities. The unidentified vehicle may be a
piece of SS-16/-20 equipment which has not been seen previously, or it could be an SS-20
resupply vehicle (longer than previously estimated). An SS-16/-20 electronics-associated
MAZ-543 missile support vehicle was also observed, in an adjacent area (Figure 4).
All of this equipment, as well as a barleycorn-type resolution target (Figure 5), 25X1
has been at the SSM training facility during the same timeframe, indicating that this
equipment could be related to a possible Soviet reconnaissance test.
nPostavy is in Belorussia in the western USSR. 25X1
GEOGRAPHIC COORDINATES
55-09-37N 026-54-37E (Mobile IRBM Base)
55-07-21N 026-53-05E (SSM Training Facility)
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