ADDITIONAL PROBABLE CSS-3 ICBM LAUNCH SITES LUSHI, CHINA(SANITIZED)

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• Publication Date: October 29, 1982
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ADDITIONAL PROBABLE CSS-3 ICBM LAUNCH SITES
1? (SWN) SIGNIFICANCE: THE IDENTIFICATION OF TWO ADDITIONAL
PROBABLE CSS-3 LAUNCH SITES AND TWO MORE SUPPORT AREAS
INDICATES THAT THE NEW ICBM DEPLOYMENT AREA UNDER CONSTRUCTION.
AROUND LUSHI WILL BE A COMPLETE LAUNCH REGIMENT.
2. (SWN) REMARKS: TWO NEW PROBABLE CSS-3 ICBM ROLLOUT,
ERECT-TO-LAUNCH SITES, ONE SSM CAVE/TUNNEL SUPPORT FACILITY,
AND CENTRALIZED CONSTRUCTION SUPPORT FACILITIES HAVE BEEN
IDENTIFIED WEST OF LUSHI IN CENTRAL CHINA. THESE PROBABLE
LAUNCH SITES AND SUPPORT FACILITIES ARE IN ADDITION TO THOSE
PREVIOUSLY FOUND EAST OF THE CITY (SEE NPIC IAC 403 FOR.
ALTOGETHER, THE FACILITIES AROUND LUSHI NOW
UNDER CONSTRUCTION COMPRISE A NEW REGIMENT-SIZED LAUNCH GROUP
OF THE SUNDIAN (LUANCHUAN) MISSILE. LAUNCH COMPLEX SSM
(SWN) THE FOLLOWING DESCRIPTIONS OF THE NEWLY IDENTIFIED SSM
FACILITIES WEST OF LUSHI ARE NECESSARILY GENERAL BECAUSE OF THE
LOW RESOLUTION OF AVAILABLE IMAGERY, TERRAIN MASKING, AND
ACTIVE CAMOUFLAGE AT SOME OF THE FACILITIES.
(SWN) LUSHI PROBABLE SSM LAUNCH SITE 4 IS 6.4 25X1
KM NORTHWEST OF LUSHI. IT CONSISTS OF THREE CAVES UNDER
CONSTRUCTION IN A STREAM VALLEY AND THREE GROUPS OF
CONSTRUCTION WORKERS HOUSING BUILDINGS ALONG THE SITE SERVICE
ROAD, APPROXIMATELY 900 METERS SOUTHEAST OF THE CAVES.
(SWN) LUSHI PROBABLE SSM LAUNCH SITE 5 IS 20.4 25X1
KM NORTH-NORTHWEST OF LUSHI. IT CONTAINS TWO CAVES WHICH HAVE
CAMOUFLAGE NETS SUSPENDED OVER THE ENTRANCE AND ONE OTHER
POSSIBLE CAVE.' AN ASSOCIATED GROUP OF CONSTRUCTION WORKERS
HOUSING BUILDINGS IS APPROXIMATELY 450 METERS TO THE SOIJTI-I.
(SWN) LUSHI SSM CAVE/TUNNEL SUPPORT FACILITY WEST
7 IS 19.7 KM NORTHWEST OF LUSI-II. IT CONTAINS TWO 7c X1
CAVES ON OPPOSITE SIDES OF A MOUNTAIN RIDGE, APPRUXIMATLLI 4UU
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METERS APART. A CAMOUFLAGE NET WAS SUSPENDED OVER EACH CAVE
ENTRANCE. FOUR GROUPS OF CONSTRUCTION WORKERS HOUSING
BUILDINGS ARE ALONG THE SERVICE ROAD.
(SWN) LUSHI SSM CONSTRUCTION SUPPORT FACILITY
IS 1.8 KM SOUTHWEST OF LUSHI. IT CONSISTS OF SIX
GEOGRAPHICALLY SEPARATE AREAS INCLUDING WORKERS HOUSING AREAS,
A VEHICLE PARK, OPEN STORAGE YARDS FOR CONSTRUCTION MATERIALS,
AND A NEW POSSIBLE REGIMENT HEADQUARTERS SUPPORT AREA. THE
POSSIBLE REGIMENT HEADQUARTERS SUPPORT AREA IS A NEW GRADED
AREA WHICH HAS BEEN WALL SECURED. THE FOUNDATIONS FOR A
MULTISTORY ADMINISTRATION BUILDING WERE OBSERVED UNDER
CONSTRUCTION THERE
(SWN) NO CONSTRUCTION WAS OBSERVED AT THESE AREAS ON IMAGERY
ALTHOUGH IT IS TOO EARLY TO DETERMINE THE
COMPLETE OUTLINE OF FACILITIES IN THE NEW LUSHI SSM LAUNCH
GROUP AND SOME AREAS AROUND LUSHI HAVE NOT BEEN IMAGED SINCE
1980, THE LAYOUT OF LUSHI APPEARS TO BE SIMILAR TO THE LAUNCH
GROUP AT DELINGHA IN WESTERN CHINA (SEE NPIC BIIR SUBSECTION
IE, TYPE IIIB LAUNCH SITES, CHINA, RCA-01/0012/81, Z-14506/82,
SWN). AT LUSHI, FOUR PROBABLE LAUNCH SITES (SITES 1, 3, 4,
AND 5) HAVE BEEN IDENTIFIED POSSIBLE NEI ONE LAUNCH SITE
(POSSIBLE SSM LAUNCH SITE 2, HAS BEEN REPORTED.
HOWEVER, POSSIBLE LAUNCH SIT, Z APPEAR E ANOTHER SSM
CAVE/TUNNEL SUPPORT FACILITY.
(SWN) CONSIDERING THESE CHANGES AND INCLUDING THE NEWLY
DISCOVERED FACILITIES IN THE LUSHI DEPLOYMENT AREA, NPIC
CURRENTLY HOLDS 20 ICBM LAUNCH SITES IN CHINA AS COMPLETE OR
UNDER CONSTRUCTION. THEY INCLUDE: TWO TYPE IV LAUNCH SITES
FOR THE CSS-4 AND TWO TYPE IIIA AND 16 TYPE IIIB LAUNCH SITES
FOR THE CSS-3. OF THE 16 TYPE IIIB LAUNCH SITES, FOUR ARE
QUALIFIED AS PROBABLE AND TWO ARE CONSIDERED POSSIBLE. BOTH
POSSIBLE TYPE IIIB SITES ARE AT TONGDAO., AND THE FOUR PROBABLE
SITES ARE THOSE AT LUSHI.
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OORDINATES 34-06-30N 111-00-30E
COORDINATES 34-13-S5N 110-59-53E
OORDINATES 34-13-22N 110-58-25E
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