SOVIET MOBILE MISSILE SUMMARY (SANITIZED)

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• Collection: NGA Records (Formerly NIMA)
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP80T00250A000100080001-6
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• Document Page Count: 22
• Document Creation Date: December 28, 2016
• Document Release Date: August 12, 2010
• Sequence Number: 1
• Publication Date: October 1, 1979
• Content Type: REPORT

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Soviet Mobile Missile Summary
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SOVIET MOBILE MISSILE SUMMARY
22 MAY-16 SEPTEMBER 1979 (TSR)
1. (TSR) This report updates information in a previous report' on SS-20 field training activity,
mobile missile equipment, and construction progress observed at deployed SS-20 mobile IRBM bases; the
report also summarizes significant mobile missile activity seen at two offensive missile test centers, three
production facilities, a research /training facility, and at several command and control facilities in the
USSR (Figure 1). Seven field-deployed training exercises were observed, and two new mobile bases were
identified. Two new missile load simulators, construction of a new three-bay garage, and apparent modifi-
cations to the electronics area were seen at Kapustin Yar. At Plesetsk, a drive-through
structure had been erected. A minimum number of 41 single-bay garages were fabricated, and a minimum
number of 47 garages were shipped from Bryansk. Modifications of command post bunkers were under-
way at the Yurya and Verkhnyaya Saida complexes, and a helix antenna has been added at Chita Strategic
Rocket Forces (SRF) Army Command Post Bunker Hard.
Included in this report are a location map, annotated photographs, and tables.
2. (TSR) Olovyannaya Mobile IRBM Base I (Figure 2) was confirmed as a mobile base
This new base is approximately 200 kilometers (km) east of Drovyanaya SSM Com-
plex and was in the early stage of construction. The Olovyannaya base is the easternmost of the SS-20
bases. An operations area was under construction 500 meters east of the dismantled SS-7 triple silos at
former Olovyannaya SSM Launcher Position 1. Nine single-bay and three three-bay garage foundations
are also present. No additional construction of support buildings was underway. The terrain in the
Olovyannaya region is largely barren, with scattered areas of vegetation cover.
3. (TSR) Smorgon Mobile IRBM Base 2, the fourth base in the Postavy Division,
the base consisted of foundations for four single-bay garages
and for one three-bay garage (Figure 3) in the old SS-5 IRBM launch area. The foundation for an 11-hay
garage was seen in the support area. Several new revetments are in the SSM training area, approximately 3
km south of the base. Preliminary construction, which included temporary support barracks for construc-
tion personnel
a total of 20 bases and one probable base had been located and
identified (Table 1): of these, 13 were either complete or in the late stage of construction. The SS-20
mobile IRBM bases are now distributed in the following geographic regions-seven bases are in the
western USSR (Belorussia), four are in the Ural Mountain region, three are in west Siberia, and six are in
east Siberia.
5. (TSR) The first observed SS-20 field training at a mobile IRBM base in the western USSR was
On that date, six probable SS-20 vehicles were deployed
in a heavily wooded area 1 km west of Postavy Mobile IRBM Base.
The vehicles were aligned along a loop road at a former SS-4 fixed-field site. No activity had been seen at
the fixed-field site for several years.
The dense tree canopy in the area
precluded the identification of additional vehicles. No SS-20
transporter-erector-launchers (TELs) could be identified, and the exercise may have been a command,
control, and communications exercise. In addition, the identification of new SS-20-size revetments approx-
imately 15 nm southwest of the base suggests that SS-20 missile launch equipment is also involved in field
training exercises at Postavy.
6. (TSR) Three separate SS-20 field training exercises were observed at Drovyanaya SSM Complex during
the first week in August. SS-20 vehicles were observed in two areas near Drovyanaya
Rail-to-Road Transfer Point (RTP). The first SS-20 launch unit containing at least two SS-20 TELs with missile
canisters and seven additional vehicles was in a revetted area 1 km south of the RTP. The second SS-20 unit was
in newly constructed revetments 1 km north of the RTP. At least seven' vehicles were present
Drovyanaya Revetment Area I were occupied
Area I was empty, and SS-20 equipment was observed in ten
Revetment Area 1.
probable SS-20 activity occurred in this same area
each day.
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1 Polotsk Mobile IRBM Base 1
2 Postavy Mobile IRBM Base
3 Smorgon Mobile IRBM Base 1
4 Smorgon Mobile IRBM Base 2
5 Minsk Motor Vehicle and
Guided Missile Support Plant
6 Kozhanovichl Mobile IRBM Base
7 Konkovichi Mobile I RBM Base
8 Mozyr Mobile IRBM Base/Training Facility
9 Rechitsa Probable Mobile I RBM Base
10 Bryansk Guided Missile Support Equipment Plant 11
11 Serpukhov SSM Engineering Research/Training Facility
12 Plesetsk Missile/Space Test Center SSM
13 Yurya Mobile IRBM Base 1
14 Yurya Mobile IRBM Base 2
15 Volgograd Steel and Machinery Plant
Krasnyy Barricade 221
17 Verkhnyaya Salda Mobile I RBM Base 1
18 Verkhnyaya Saida Mobile IRBM Base 2
19 Novosibirsk Mobile IRBM Base 1
20 Novosibirsk Mobile IRBM Base 2
21 Novosibirsk Mobile IRBM Base 3
22 Drovyanaya Mobile I RBM Base 1
23 Drovyanaya Mobile IRBM Base 2
24 Drovyanaya Mobile IRBM Base 3
25 Drovyanaya Mobile IRBM Base 4
26 Drovyanaya Mobile IRBM Base 5
27 Olovyannaya Mobile I RBM Base 1
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