NEW HELICOPTER ATTACK HELIPORT, SINO-SOVIET BORDER KHADA BULAK STATION AIRFIELD, USSR(SANITIZED)

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• Collection: NGA Records (Formerly NIMA)
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP90T00784R000200390001-1
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• Document Creation Date: December 28, 2016
• Document Release Date: March 1, 2011
• Sequence Number: 1
• Publication Date: October 21, 1982
• Content Type: REPORT

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NEW HELICOPTER ATTACK HELIPORT, SINO-SOVIET BORDER
KHADA B AK STATION AIRFIELD, USSR
1. (SWN) SIGNIFICANCE: THIS IS THE THIRD REGIMENTAL-SIZE
HELIPORT IDENTIFIED IN THE TRANSBAYKAL MILITARY DISTRICT
(MD) SINCE DECEMBER 1981 AND BRINGS THE TOTAL IN THIS MD TO
SIX.
2. (SWN) REMARKS: A HELICOPTER ATTACK HELIPORT WAS IDENTIFIED
IN LATE STAGES OF CONSTRUCTION AT KHADA BULAK STATION
AIRFIELD ON IMAGERY THE HELIPORT WAS 25X1
NOT PRESENT UT WAS IN AN ALMOST SIMILAR 25X1
STAGE OF CONSTRUCTION THIS CONSTRUCTION 25X1
CONSISTS OF A CONCRETE RUNWAY, A LARGE CONCRETE
PARKING/LANDING APRON, NINE CONCRETE HARDSTANDS, AND 78
HELICOPTER PIERCED-STEEL-PLANKING (PSP) HARDSTANDS. THE PSP
HARDSTANDS ARE DIVIDED AMONG THREE SQUADRON-SIZED AREAS. A
NORTHWEST AREA CONSISTS OF 26 SMALL AND TWO LARGE
HARDSTANDS; A SOUTHEAST AREA CONSISTS OF 22 SMALL AND THREE
LARGE HARDSTANDS; AND A NORTHEAST AREA CONSISTS OF 23 SMALL
HARDSTANDS, TWO LARGE HARDSTANDS, AND A FIRING-IN BUTT. AN
ADDITIONAL NINF CONCRETE HARDSTANDS ARE ON A TAXIWAY
PARALLEL TO THE RUNWAY.
(SWN) AT LEAST 15 SUPPORT BUILDINGS IN VARIOUS STAGES OF
CONSTRUCTION, SEVERAL STACKS OF BUILDING MATERIALS, AND
EXTENSIVE TRENCHING WERE OBSERVED IN A SUPPORT AREA AT THE
NORTHWESTERN END OF THE HELIPORT.
(SWN) KHADA BULAK STATION AIRFIELD WAS FORMERLY A
GRADED-EARTH DISPERSAL AIRFIELD AND IS APPROXIMATELY 45 NM
NORTHWEST OF THE USSR/MONGOLIA/CHINA BORDER.
3. (S)
COORDINATES 50-38-05N 116-22-21E
These notes have been prepared for briefing purposes only and should not be used for detailed ana-
lytical work. Their use should be restricted to the particular briefing board(s) they were prepared for
and must be considered valid only for the reporting period as indicated by the date of issue.
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