REPLACEMENT OF REPORT

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: NGA Records (Formerly NIMA)
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP82T00709R000200620001-7
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: S
• Document Page Count: 9
• Document Creation Date: December 28, 2016
• Document Release Date: June 7, 2010
• Sequence Number: 1
• Publication Date: March 1, 1982
• Content Type: MEMO

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MEMORANDUM FOR: Recipients of Z-14534/82, IAR-0015/82
Special-Purpose Railcars at Sary-Shagan
Airfield, USSR (S)
Imagery Analysis Report
Dated March 1982
SUBJECT Replacement of Report
Please replace the above-mentioned report with the
attached report.
WNINTEL
Z-14534/82-1
SECRET IAR-0015/82-1
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SPECIAL-PURPOSE RAILCARS AT SARY-SHAGAN AIRFIELD, USSR (S)
1. (S/D) This re ort rovides an imagery-derived analysis of special-purpose (SP) railcars at
Sary-Shagan Airfield USSR (Figure 1). These railcars have also been seen at 25X1
Smolensk Guided Missile and Aircraft Component Plant 475 Akhtubinsk Flight .5X1
Test Center and Saratov Airframe Plant 292 The railcars, previ- 25X1
ously identified as CODLING wing shipping containers, have recently been observed transporting
the modified KELT (AS-5) air-to-surface missile (ASM). This report, covering the period from
January 1973 through 1982, includes a location map and five annotated photographs.
2. (S/D) An analysis of April 1981 imagery of Sary-Shagan Airfield has shown that the SP
railcar is a 13- by 3-meter gondola car with a distinctive two-section, removable cover. This cover
has awedge-shaped forward section which joins a beveled aft section at approximately the
railcar's midpoint (Figure 2).
3. (S/D six SP railcars were in a storage/support area at Sary-Shagan 25X1
Airfield (Figure 3). On imagery the six SP railcars each containing one modified KELT 25X1
(Figure 4), were observed with their covers removed these SP railcars were empty, 25X1
and six additional modified KELTs were in the stora a su ort area; their covers were on the
offloading ramp adjacent to the railcars (Figure 5).~neither the railcars nor their covers 25X1
were present. However, the six modified KELTs remained in the storage/support area. SP railcars
were first observed at Sar -Shagan in mid-1979. Periodic observations of the railcars continued
With each observation of the railcars, a corresponding number of 25X1
modified KELTs were eventually seen. No more than seven of these railcars have been seen at any
one time at Sary-Shagan.
4. (S/D) The association of SP railcars with CODLING wings was made at Saratov Airframe
Plant 292, where CODLINGS were assembled four railcars were in 25X1
the transshipment area at Saratov. One of these railcars was uncovered and empty, and its cover
was on the offloading ramp next to a pair of CODLING wings (Figure 6), which appeared to have
been removed from the railcar by an adjacent crane. SP railcars have not been observed at
Saratov since May 1977, and production of the CODLING ended during the summer of 1980,
indicating that thE~ SP railcar is no longer transporting CODLING wings.
5. (S/D) SP railcars have been observed at Smolensk Guided Missile and Aircraft Compo-
nent Plant 475 since at least January 1973. CODLING components (including wings) and KELTs
have been produced at Smolensk. Also, SP railcars have been observed periodically at the ASM
storage and support complexes of Akhtubinsk Flight Test Center since June 1979.
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FIGURE 1. LOCATIONS OF FACILITIES ASSOCIATED WITH SPECIAL-PURPOSE RAILCARS IN THE USSRI
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