HEAVY ROCKET ARTILLERY - T.R.A.

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• Document Creation Date: December 23, 2016
• Document Release Date: August 8, 2013
• Sequence Number: 1
• Publication Date: February 28, 1963
• Content Type: REPORT

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INFORMATION REPORT INFORMATION REPORT
CENTRAL INTELLIGENCE AGENCY
This material contains information affecting the National Defense of the United States within the meaning of the Espionage Laws, Title
18, U.S.C. Secs. 793 and 794, the transmission or revelation of which in any manner to an unauthorized person is prohibited by law.
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Rea7y Rop.4A Artillery (Tyathelaya Reaktivnaya
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Miscellaneous
1.. The Soviet Army does not receive finished rockets from industry .
but separate components of rounds; in other words, T.R.A.
finished form is assetbled at the firing position, (ognevaya pozits4a-
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2. Free rockets are sometimes called projectiles (snaryad). Guided
missiles are sometimes called articles (izdeliye). ?
3. Bases and arsenals of the Soviet Army
First type - arsenals of artillery ammunition
Second type - central artillery ammunition bases (uneategorized)
Third type - central artillery ammunition bases of category 1.
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Fourth type - central artillery bases of category 2. (of depot
character) .
Fifth type - central artillery ammunition bases of the T.R.A.
? (storage of components)
Sixth type-- central artillery bases for powder.
Seventh type - central cetegorized ammunition bases
Eighth type - central assembIy4bases of the T.R.A. (assetbly
of warheads, separate chambers, but not of the
complete rocket). .
4. There is a free rocket called the? Luna - oharacteristics are not
known. Range - up to 60 kms. .
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5. .The rocket chanters reach the troops separately in individual,
dispatched contairfers. .The containers for the chambers of the ."3R1"
and "3R3" are made of wooden lathes, and each chamber has a separate.
container. The solid fuel charges (shashka) are stored separately,
wrapped in foil (but not in hermetic. packaging). They reach the
assembly point in. this form in wooden boxes.* The watheads
packed in transpdrt containers.
6.. The oxidizer for the "3R7" is handled, and will be handledlin
special ciAterns and in trucks with the inscription "Nitrogen mixture
'27-11". ".he basic fuel travels in special cisterns with the marking
"Product 130". The starting fuel is transported in barrels or in
special cisterns with the inscription "Samin-Poisonous-Piflammdble"
on the container. (The barrels are painted green.)
7. * The solid fuel charges in wooden boxes: for the "3R1" travel
singly, for the "3R2" and "3R3", 4 charges in one box.
8. The diameter of the boxes (containers) of the rear chaMberslis
larger than those for the front 'chambers - because of the diameter
Of the stabilizers, for the "3R1" and "3R2"; the ."3R3". P
9. Both chanters of the "3R7" are arranged in one box (container).
10. A special workshop is set up or the assembly an. fueling of .
"3R7"..rockets% Forty-eight rockets are assembled in a shift hours).
An intermittent conveyor is used. Fueled rockets are stored for up
to 6 months. The precision of fueling is plus or minus .1%. The
weight tolerance is plus or minus .5 kgs.
11. One unit of fire for "3R7" is 4 salvoes.
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13. The height of trajectory of a "3R1" is 9 kms and of "3R2",
22 kms.
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14. There are T.R.A. brigades* In a brigade there are 3 battalions,
in a battalion, 3 batteries. In" 3R1", '3E2", and "3R3".batteries
there are 2 launcher mounts Custanovka), and in a "3R7" battery there
are 4 launcher mounts.
Fire-power of a salvo of a T.R.A..battalion
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3 batteries with 2 launcher mounts, a total of 6 rockets
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37a2".iV... 3 batteries with 2 launcher mounts, a total of 6 rockets
And "3R3" in a battalion salvo.
"3R7".
3 batteries with 4 launcher mounts in each battery (with:
6 launchers on each launcher mount), a total of 72 rockets
in the salvo of a battalion.
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5 minutes for-one firing
20-30 minutes for one firing
10-15 minutes for one salvo
16* Atomic artillery weapons
Characteristics of the
Atomic,Artillery Weapons
Artillery Systems
310 mm. cannon 420 mm. mor4r
rifled smooth-bore
Maximum range
2. Weight of the system
id firing position
3. Rate of fire
4. .11x.I. equivalent
5. Means of traction
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6. Speed of movement 30 kms. per hour 30 kms. per hour
7. Dispersion ?
(Va. - range probable 1/500
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8. Time to transfer from
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9. Time for preparation
to open fire
8-10 minutes
1/500
1/1500
8-10 minutes
15-20 minutes 15-20 minutes
There is not yet a 1 kilo-ton weapOn in the Soviet Army:
A battalion (2 batteries) has eisther 14 cannons of 310 mm. caliber
. ? or .4'.mortars of 1420 min.
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