SS-18 ICBM DISPERSAL TRAINING EXERCISE DOMBAROVSKIY POSSIBLE DISPERSAL TRAINING AREA 1, USSR (SANITIZED)

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• Publication Date: October 24, 1983
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NPIC/IEG (10/83)
SS-18 ICBM DISPERSAL TRAINING EXERCISE
DOMBAROVSKIY POSSIBLE DISPERSAL TRAINING AREA 1, USSR (SWN)
1. SIGNIFICANCE: A LARGE-SCALE DISPERSAL TRAINING EXERCISE
INVOLVING MAJOR PIECES OF SS-18 EQUIPMENT WAS OBSERVED AT
DOMBAROVSKIY. (SWN)
2. REMARKS: A LARGE-SCALE SS-18 25X1
DISPERSAL TRAINING EXERCISE WAS IN PROGRESS AT DOMBAROVSKIY
DISPERSAL TRAINING AREA (DTA) 1. NO ACTIVITY WAS OBSERVED IN
AND THE EXERCISE WAS CONCLUDED Oryi
THIS DTA CONTAINS 32 REVETMENTS AND IS 2 NM 25X1
NORTH-NORTHEAST OF THE DOMBAROVSKIY ICBM RAIL-TO-ROAD TRANSFER
POINT (RTP; THE EXERCISE INVOLVED AN SS-18 25X1
CAN/CAP TRANSPORTER, A NEWLY IDENTIFIED PROBABLE SS-18 LOWER
CANISTER SUPPORT FRAMEWORK, APPROXIMATELY 50 VEHICLES, AND
NUMEROUS TENTS. THIS WAS THE FIRST IDENTIFICATION OF A CAN/CAP
TRANSPORTER IN A FIELD TRAINING AREA. THE POSITIONING OF THE
TRANSPORTER WITH THE CANISTER SUPPORT FRAMEWORK SUGGESTS THAT A
ROLL TRANSFER OF AN SS-18 LOWER CANISTER SECTION WAS CONDUCTED.
A FRAMEWORK OF THIS TYPE COULD BE USED TO STORE CANISTERS FOR
RESUPPLY. ALTHOUGH NO CANISTER SECTIONS WERE IDENTIFIED DURING
THE EXERCISE, THE USE OF LARGE TENTS, CANVAS SHELTERS, AND OTHER
CC$D METHODS PREVENTED THE POSITIVE IDENTIFICATION OF MOST
VEHICLES AND EQUIPMENT INVOLVED. (SWN)
, AN SS-18 CAN/CAP TRANSPORTER WAS IN A DRIVE-IN 25X1
REVETMENT AND SEVERAL SUPPORT VEHICLES WERE IN AN OPERATIONS
SUPPORT AREA (GRAPHIC 1). IN ADDITION, SS-18 GROUND SUPPORT
EQUIPMENT AND AN UNUSUALLY HIGH COUNT OF SUPPORT VEHICLES WERE
IN THE RTP. (SWN)
THE CAN/CAP TRANSPORTER HAD BEEN REMOVED FROM THE 25X1
DRIVE-IN REVETMENT AND THE SS-18 LOWER CANISTER SUPPORT
FRAMEWORK WAS ALIGNED AT GRADE LEVEL NEXT TO THE CLOSED END OF
THE REVETMENT (GRAPHIC 2). ALSO, SIX REVETMENTS WERE OCCUPIED,
AND AT LEAST 30 SUPPORT VEHICLES/EQUIPMENT WERE DISPERSED
THROUGHOUT THE AREA. A LARGE CANVAS/NET COVERING WAS ERECTED
OVER FOUR POSSIBLE MULTISYSTEM PROPELLANT TRANSPORTERS (MSPT) IN
THE OPERATIONS SUPPORT AREA. IN ADDITION, TEN TENTS WERE
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PRESENT. TWO OF
THESE WERE AT LEAST 30 METERS IN
LENGT
H. AT
THE RTP
MOST OF
THE GROUND SUPPORT EOUIPM
ENT AND
AT LE
AST HALF
,
OF THE SUPPORT V
EHICLES SEEN
HAD DEP
ARTED
THE 25X1
AREA. ( SWN )
P
ARTIAL COVERAGE OF THE DTA REVEALE
D THA
T THE
25X1
EXERCISE WAS CONTINUING. (SWN)
1
1 OF THE 32 REVETMENTS IN THE DTA
WERE
OCCUPIED. A CAN
VAS-COVERED POSSIBLE CAN/CAP TRANS
PORTE
R WAS IN
THE SAM
E REVETME
NT OCCUPIED BY A CAN/CAP TRANSPORT
ER
25X1
GRAPHIC
3). THE PROBABLE LOWER CANISTER
SUPPO
RT
25X1
FRAMEWO
RK HAD BE
EN COVERED WITH A CANVAS-COVERED S
HELTE
R. ALSO,
A CANVA
S-COVERED
POSSIBLE TYPE V WARHEAD TRANSPORT
ER WA
S IN ONE
OF THE
IN CONV
SECOND
SUPPORT
OTHER REV
OY, WERE
LARGE CAN
VEHICLES
ETMENTS AND AT LEAST 40 SUPPORT VE
IN THE AREA. IN THE OPERATIONS SU
VAS/NET COVERING WAS OVER TWO POSS
. IN ADDITION, A HIP HELICOPTER W
HICLE
PPORT
IBLE M
AS
S, SOME
AREA, A
SPT AND
APPROXI
COMMUNI
MATELY 30
CATIONS U
0 METERS FROM THE DTA, AND A PROBA
NIT CONSISTING OF TWO VAN-TYPE TRU
BLE F
CKS W
IELD
AS NEARBY
(NOT ON
OR OTHE
THIS IS
DOMBARO
GRAPHIC)
R SUPPORT
THE SECO
VSKIY THA
. AT THE RTP, NO SS-18 GROUND SUP
VEHICLES WERE OBSERVED. (SWN)
ND LARGE DISPERSAL TRAINING EXERCI
T INVOLVED MAJOR PIECES OF SS-18 E
PORT
SE OB
QUIPM
EQUIPMENT
SERVED AT
ENT. IN
MARCH 1
982, SIX
MSPT AND AT LEAST 80 VEHICLES/EQUI
PMENT
WERE IN
DTA'4
, WHICH IS 15 NM NORTH OF THE
RTP.
SIMILAR
25X1
25X1
AND AT
ZHANGIZTO
BE DTAI (SWN)j
25X1
25X1
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