SSM RAIL-TO-ROAD TRANSSHIPMENT POINT IDENTIFIED BAOJI SSM RTP, CHINA

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• Publication Date: June 7, 1982
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RAIL-TO-ROAD TRANSSHIPMENT POINT IDENTIFIED
BAOJI SSM RTP. CHINA
1. (S/D) SIGNIFICANCE: AN SSM RAIL-TO-ROAD TRANSSHIPMENT
POINT (RTP) HAS BEEN NEWLY IDENTIFIED 9 KM EAST OF BAOJI IN
CENTRAL CHINA. THE BAOJI SSM RTP POSSIBLY SERVES THE
TAIBAI STRATEGIC STORAGE FACILITY A
SUSPECTED MISSILE FACILITY.
2. (S/D) REMARKS: THE BAOJI RTP CONTAINS A HIGH-BAY
TRANSLOADINC BUILDING SIMILAR IN SIZE AND CONFIGURATION TO
ONES CONSTRUCTED AT THE LUOYANG SSM RTP AND
AT THE FENGZHOU GUIDED MISSILE ENGINE PLANT (BE
THIS SPECIALIZED BUILDING IS USED TO
TRANSLOAD MISSILES AND OTHER ITEMS OF GROUND SUPPORT
EQUIPMENT (GSE) TO AND FROM RAILCARS AND ROAD VEHICLES.
THE BAOJI TRANSLOADING BUILDING HAS A RAIL AND ROAD
ENTRANCE AT BOTH ENDS OF THE BUILDING. IT PROBABLY
CONTAINS AN OVERHEAD TRAVELING CRANE TO ASSIST IN
TRANSFERRING THE EQUIPMENT. THE BAOJI RTP ALSO CONTAINS 17
WAREHOUSES, THREE OPEN STORAGE YARDS AND A HOUSING AREA.
THE HOUSING AREA CONTAINS SIX BARRACKS, THREE MESSHALLS, AN
ADMINISTRATION BUILDING, AND SEVEN SUPPORT BUILDINGS. TWO
RAIL SPURS ENTER THE RTP AND BOTH HAVE CONCRETE SIDE AND
END LOADING DOCKS.
(S/D) THE RTP WAS INITIALLY UNDER CONSTRUCTION IN
MID-1968: NO CONSTRUCTION WAS OBSERVED IN NOVEMBER 1966.
THE MISSILE AND GSE TRANSLOADING BUILDING WAS CONSTRUCTED
BETWEEN DECEMBER 1.970 AND JULY 1972, AFTER THE REST OF THE
FACILITY HAD BEEN COMPLETED AND WAS IN OPERATION. IMAGERY
OF THE RTP HAS BEEN INFREQUENT AND MOSTLY OF LOW AND MEDIUM
RESOLUTION. UNTIL 1979 NO MISSILE GSE WAS DISCERNIBLE. ON
A PROBABLE TYPE A MISSILE RAILCAR WAS
nRSER`7En PROTRUDING FROM THE TRANSLOADING BUILDING.
TWO PROBABLE TYPE A RAILCARS WERE OBSEKVEL, Ublt
OUTSIDE EACH END OF THE BUILDING. NO OTHER MISSILE
RAILCARS OR GSE HAS BEEN DISCERNIBLE. SINCE 1968 LARGE
AMOUNTS OF CONSTRUCTION MATERIALS AND FIVE TO TEN GENERAL
PURPOSE VEHICLES HAVE BEEN OBSERVED IN OPEN STORAGE AREAS
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OF THE RTP. TWO LARGE CRAWLER CRANES WERE ALSO PRESENT.
(S/D) NO OTHER STRATEGIC MISSILE DEPLOYMENT, EITHER LAUNCH
SITES OR MISSILE BASES, HAS BEEN IDENTIFIED IN THIS REGION
OF CHINA. THE NEAREST IDENTIFIED MISSILE DEPLOYMENT IS AT
OVER
ING SSM LAUNCH SITE 2
,
LUONING (LUON
400 KM FROM THIS RTP. HOWEVER, THE TAIBAI STRATEGIC
STORAGE FACILITY, AN UNDERGROUND STORAGE FACILITY, IS
LOCATED 60 KM SOUTH OF THE BAOJI SSM RTP. AN IMPROVED
ROAD, MOSTLY PAVED, CONNECTS THE TWO INSTALLATIONS. THE
TAIBAI FACILITY HAS SOME CHARACTERISTICS THAT INDICATE IT
IS FOR STORING MISSILES OR MISSILE GSE. IT CONTAINS FIVE
AST
DRIVE-IN CAVES, EACH OF WHICH HAVE CLAMSHELL SHAPED BL
DOORS, AND A SET OF RAIL GUIDES WHICH EXTEND FROM THE
ENTRANCE. TO DATE, NO MISSILE GSE HAS BEEN DISCERNED AT
TAIBAI.
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