SOVIET NAVAL SHIPS AND ARMS SHIPMENTS AT ADEN SOUTH YEMEN APRIL 1978--APRIL 1979

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• Publication Date: July 1, 1979
• Content Type: REPORT

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NATIONAL PHOTOGRAPHIC
INTERPRETATION CENTER
PHOTOGRAPHIC
INTERPRETATION
REPORT
SOVIET NAVAL SHIPS AND
ARMS SHIPMENTS AT ADEN
SOUTH YEMEN
APRIL 1978 APRIL 1979
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SOVIET NAVAL SHIPS AND ARMS SHIPMENTS AT
ADEN, SOUTH YEMEN, APRIL 1978-APRIL 1979 (TSR)
1. This report is a summary of Soviet naval ships and arms shipments ob- 25X1
served at Aden Port Facilities, South Yemen , from April 1978 through 25X1
April 1979. The report contains a location map, six annotated photographs, and two tables.
2. ~A complete listing of Soviet naval combatant and merchant ships observed
at Aden (Figure 1) is provided in Table 1. Table 2 lists significant arms transfers and new
equipment observed in South Yemen. Some observations from these tables are discussed
briefly.
3. 0 Soviet arms are delivered to South Yemen by merchant ship, then by barge 25X1
and land transport to designated facilities for checkout/assembly.
4. a Soviet Leninsky Komsomol-class merchant ship with 25X1
two probable FITTER fuselage shipping containers and two probable FITTER wing ship-
ping containers (Figure 2) was at the port; the FITTER wing shipping 25X1
containers had been transferred to a barge (Figure 3) which was ' in the
inner harbor at Aden International Airfiel nine 25X1
FITTER fuselage shipping containers and four FITTER wing shipping containers were
observed (Figure 4) after being transported 2.2 nautical miles by MAZ-537 prime mover(s)
from the barge. an assembled 25X1
FITTER C/D aircraft (Figure 5), the first observed in South Yemen.
5. STYX missile shipping containers were also observed for the first time in 25X1
South Yemen at Aden International Airfield Two months 25X1
earlier at Aden International Airfield, ZSU-23/4 self-propelled antiaircraft guns were ob-
served for the first time. Other equipment newly identified in South Yemen since April
1978 has included BTR-60P, BTR-60PB, and the BRDM-2 antitank guided-missile
(ATGM) armored personnel carriers; BM-21 rocket launchers; and possible M-1977 rocket
launchers.
Since early this ye
when two Osa II guided-missile boats, three Polnocny
ar, the South Yemen Navy has grown significantly as
amphibious landing ships (LST), one T-58 fleet minesweeper (MSF), one T-43 MSF, and
one P-6 fast patrol boat were at the Aden naval facility (Figure 6).
7. Soviet combatants have been seen regularly at Aden Port Facilities. On
an unusually large Soviet naval presence was observed when
one J-class cruise-missile attack submarine (SSG), one Krivak-I guided-missile frigate
(FFG), one Don submarine tender (AS), one Alligator LST, and one Vytegrales space
vehicle recovery ship (ASVR) were moored in the roadstead (Figure 7).
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Table 1
Soviet Naval Ships Observed at the Port of
Aden, South Yemen, April 1978 -Aril 1979
This table in its entirety is classifie
Date Ships Observed*
1 Sofiyaad Soviet
1Ailademil Tupolev mership
2 Iraqi Polnocny"C'
LSMs
1 Riga FF
1 Mayak A 61
1 A01
1 Leninskiy Komsomol With 5 buses & numerous vehs/
mership pieces of equipment
1 Ropucha LST
1 Leninskiy Komsomol
mership
2 Kommunist-class merships
1 Ropucha LST
1 Leninskiy Komsomol
mership
1 Leninskiy Komsomol
mership
1 Alligator LST
2Natya MSTs
1 Ropucha LST
1 Kashin DDG
1 Ropucha LST
1 Alligator LST
1 Cuban passenger
cargo ship (Africa)
1 Leninskiy Gvardiya-
class mership
1 Ropucha LST
1 Alligator LST
1 Poltava-class mership
1 Kommunist-class mership With 7 van trucks & 12 prob
vehs as deck cargo
1 Ropucha LST
1 Alligator LST
With 3 cargo trucks & 2 unid
vehs as deck cargo
1 Poltava-class mership
1 Geroi Panfiloutsy-class
mership
1 Kommunist-class mership With prob trucks & vehs/
pieces of equipment as deck cargo
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Table 1. (Continued )
1 Geroi Panfiloutsy-class
mership
1 Kommunist-class mership
1 Kushnarenko-class
mership
1 Alligator LST
1 Vytegrales ASVR
1 Petya-II FFL
1 Alligator LST
1 Vytegrales ASVR
1 Alligator LST
1 Vytegrales ASVR
1 Leninskiy Komsomol-class
mership
1 Alligator LST
1 Vytegrales ASVR
1 Kapitan Kushnarenko-
class mership
1 Kapitan Kushnarenko
class mership
1 Leninskiy Komsomol-class 10 poss aircraft shipping
mership containers & 8 small aircraft
shipping containers as deck cargo
1 Alligator LST
1 Vytegrales ASVR
1 Leninskiy Komsomol-class 2 prob FITTER fuselage shipping
mership containers & 2 prob FITTER wing
shipping containers as deck cargo
1 Alligator LST
7 Vytegrales ASVR
1 Leninskiy Komsomol-class 2 FITTER fuselage shipping
mership containers & 2 FITTER wing shipping
containers as deck cargo
1 Alligator LST
1 Vytegrales ASVR
1 Leninskiy Komsomol-class 2 FITTER fuselage shipping
mership containers & 2 FITTER wing shipping
containers as deck cargo
1 Alligator LST
1 Vytegrales ASVR
1 Geroi Panfiloutsy-class
mership
1 Alligator LST
1 Vytegrales ASVR
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Table 1. (Continued)
1 Leninskiy Komsomol-class 3 vehs/pieces of equipment as
mership deck cargo
1 Leninskiy Komsomol-class
mership
1 Alligator LST
1 Leninskiy Komsomol-class
mership
1 Alligator LST
1 Vytegrales ASVR
1 J-class SSG
1 Krivak-I FFG
1 Don AS
1 Alligator LST
1 Vytegrales ASVR
1 RopuchaLST
1 Leninskiy Komsomol-class
mership
1 Alligator LST
1 Vytegrales ASVR
1 Leninskiy Gvardiya-class
mership
ligator LST
1 Vytegrales ASVR
1 Alligator LST
1 Vytegrales ASVR
1 Leninskiy Gvardiya-class
mership
2 BTR-60PB, 2 BTR-60P, 1 prob
BTR-60, 4 cargo trucks, & 2
vehs/pieces of equipment as
deck cargo
1 Alligator LST
1 Vytegrales ASVR
1 Leninskiy Komsomol-class
mership
1 Alligator LST
1 Vytegrales ASVR
1 Leninskiy Komsomol-class
mership
1 Leninskiy Gvardiya-class
mership
1 Cuban mership
1 Alligator LST
1 Vytegrales ASVR
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Table 1. (Continued)
1 Alligator LST
1 Vytegrales ASVR
1 Sosnogorsk-class
mership
1 Prob Soviet mership
1 Alligator LST
1 Vytegrales ASVR
1 Pyat Soviet
1 Komsomol-class mership
1 Ropucha LST
1 Alligator LST
1 Vytegrales ASVR
1 Sosnogorsk-class
mership
1 Alligator LST
1 Vytegrales ASVR
1 Sosnogorsk-class
mership
1 Alligator LST
1 Vytegrales ASVR
1 Sosnogorsk-class
mership
1 Alligator LST
1 Vytegrales ASVR
1 Sosnogorsk-class
mership
1 Alligator LST
1 Sosnogorsk-class
mership
1 Alligator LST
1 Kazbek AO
1 Alligator LST
1 Vytegrales ASVR
1 Alligator LST
1 Vytegrales ASVR
1 Krivak-I FFG
1 Alligator LST
1 Vytegrales ASVR
1 Alligator LST
1 Kazbek AO
1 Vytegrales ASVR
1 Alligator LST
1 Vytegrales ASVR
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Table 1. (Continued)
1 Ropucha LST
1 Alligator LST
1 Vytegrales ASVR
1 Prob Akademik Tupolev- With 20 trucks as deck cargo
class RO-RO
1 Ropucha LST
1 Alligator LST
1 Vytegrales ASVR
1 Prob Akademik Tupolev- With 20 trucks as deck cargo
class RO-RO
1 Ropucha LST
1 Alligator LST
1 Ropucha LST
1 Alligator LST
1 Kazbek AO
1 Murom-class Soviet
1 Geroi Panfiloutsy-class
mership
1 Ropucha LST
1 Alligator LST
1 Murom-class
1 Vyburg-class mership
1 Ropucha LST
1 Alligator LST
1 Murom-class Soviet
1 Alligator LST
1 Murom-class Soviet
1 Alligator LST
1 Murom-class Sovie
1 Alligator LST
1 Murom-class Sovie
1 Alligator LST
1 Murom-class Soviet
1 Sosnogorsk-class
mership
1 Alligator LST
1 Ropucha LST
1 Leninskiy Gvardiya-class
mership
1 Soviet A606
1 Unid Soviet mership
1 East German mership
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Table 1. (Continued)
1 Leninskiy Komsomol With deck cargo of one 2-spot GCA
mership veh, 1 oxygen manufacturing
veh, 8 searchlight trucks,
2 UAZ-452 inner marker beacon
transmitters, 4 prob R-800
series radio van trucks,
12 buses, & 10 vehs
1 Petya-II FFL
1 Romanian Pyat
1 Komsomol-class mership
1 Kommunist-class mership
1 Leninskiy Komsomol-class
mership
1 Ropucha LST
1 Poss Soviet mership
1 Ropucha LST
1 Kapitan Kushnarenko-
class mership
1 Ropucha LST
1 Kapitan Kushnarenko-
class mership
1 Kapitan Kushnarenko-
class mership
1 Unid prob Soviet mership
1 Kapitan Kushnarenko-
class mership
2 Unid prob Soviet merships
1 Maksimgorkiy passenger
ship
1 Vytegrales ASVR
1 Ropucha LST
1 Kapitan Kusitanarenko-
class mership
1 Slavyansk mership
1 Kapitan Kushnarenko- With prob trucks on deck
class mership
1 Krivak-II FFG
1 Petya-ll FFL
1 Ropucha LST
Bow doors open & trucks lined
up on pier
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Table 1. (Continued)
1 Krivak-II FFG
1 Petya-11 FFL
1 Petya-II FFL
1 Ropucha LST
`Key to abbreviations:
A0--Oiler FF Frigate
AG!-Intelligence collecter FFL-Light frigate
AGOR-Oceanographic research ship LSM-Medium amphibious assault landing ship
DDG---Guided-missile destroyer MST-Fleet minesweeper
RO-RO---Rol/-on roll-off ship
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Table 2
Significant Arms Shipments and Equipment Observed
at Aden, South Yemen, April 1978 -April 1979
First ident of prob FITTER fuselage & wing shipping containers on deck of
a Leninskiy Komsomol-class merchant ship
STYX missile shipping containers were ident for the first time at Aden Inter-
national Airfield
First observation of Soviet MAY antisubmarine warfare (ASW) aircraft at Aden
International Airfield
1 two-spot GCA veh, 1 oxygen manufacturing veh, 8 searchlight trucks,
2 UAZ-452 inner marker beacon transmitters, 4 prob R-800 series radio
van trucks, 12 buses, & 10 miscellaneous vehs on the deck of a Leninskiy
Komsomol-class merchant ship
First ident of 4 poss M-1977 rocket launchers at Aden Ammo Storage
& Test Area
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