SAM LAUNCH FACILITIES SHUANG-CHENG-TZU MISSILE TEST CENTER, CHINA

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• Collection: NGA Records (Formerly NIMA)
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP78T05929A000500030017-5
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• Document Creation Date: January 4, 2017
• Sequence Number: 17
• Publication Date: January 26, 1965
• Content Type: REPORT

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SAM LAUNCH FACILITIES
SHUANG-CHENG-TZU MISSILE TEST CENTER, CHINA
1. THE SAM LAUNCH FACILITIES OF THE SHUANG-CHENG-TZU MISSILE TEST
CENTER WERE FIRST OBSERVED ON AT THAT TIME
THE FACILITIES APPEARED TO BE COMPLETED AND WERE COMPOSED OF TWO
FAN-SHAPED SA-2 SAM LAUNCH SITES, SAM INSTRUMENTATION, AND A HOUSING
AND SUPPORT AREA. THE LAUNCH SITES Tn1ERE ORIENTED TO THE EAST ON AN
AZIMUTH OF ABOUT 90 DEGREES.
2. THE SAM INSTRUMENTATION CONSISTS OF THE INSTRUMENTATION CONTROL
CENTER, LOCATED ADJACENT TO THE SAM HOUSING AND SUPPORT AREA
APPROXIMATELY 1.25 NM WEST OF LAUNCH SITE B, AND FOUR DOWNRANGE
INSTRUMENTATION SITES. EACH DOWNRANGE SITE CONSISTS OF AN INSTRU-
MENTATION BUILDING WITH A RAISED OBSERVATION PLATFORM HAVING AT
LEAST THREE MOUNTINGS FOR EQUIPMENT, .A VEHICLE SHED, A POSSIBLE
GENERATOR BUILDING, A BURIED WATER TANK, A SECURITY GATEHOUSE, AND
TWO UNIDENTIFIED STRUCTURES. ALL FIVE SITES ARE CONNECTED BY
GROUND SCARS WHICH FORM AN INSTRUMENTATION PATTERN VERY SIMILAR TO
THAT AT THE SAM LAUNCH COMPLEX OF THE KAPUSTIN YAR MISSILE TEST
CENTER, ALTHOUGH THERE IS A GREATER DISTANCE BETWEEN SITES AT SCTMTC.
THE SAM INSTRUMENTATION CONTROL CENTER CONSISTS OF TWO BUILDINGS, A
RANGE INSTRUMENTATION DOME, AND A PARKING APRON.
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3. COVERAGE HAS BEEN PROVIDED BY OVER 20 KH AND FO
4. DURING THE PERIOD OF AUGUST - OCTOBER 1964, CONSIDERABLE ACTIVITY
WAS NOTED AT THE SAM LAUNCH SITES. LAUNCHERS AND OTHER UNIDENTIFIED
EQUIPMENT WERE OBSERVED ON SEVERAL OF THE LAUNCH POSITIONS, IN THE
REVETTED HOLD AREAS, AND IN THE GUIDANCE AREAS OF BOTH SITES DURING
THIS PERIOD.
5. THIS MISSION REVEALS A NEW PROBABLE SAM INSTRUMENTATION SITE UNDER
CONSTRUCTION APPROXIMATELY 9 NM NOP,THEAST OF SITE 3. THE POSITIONING
OF THIS SITE IS SIMILAR TO THAT OF SITE 11 AT THE KYMTC. CONSTRUCTION
ACTIVITY, A ROW OF PROBABLE VEHICLES, AND TRACK ACTIVITY BETWEEN SITE
3 .AND THE NEW PROBABLE SITE ARE OBSERVED. �
VEHICLE TRACKS WERE VISIBLE BETWEEN SITE 3 AND THE
PRESENT SITE OF CONSTRUCTION; THEY WERE NOT PRESENT FIVE DAYS EARLIER
NO SIGNIFICANT CHANGES ARE NOTED AT THE TWO SAM LAUNCH SITES ALTHOUGH
EQUIPMENT~VEHICLES ARE OBSERVED AT EACH SITE. THE AREA OF EARTH
SCARRING NORTH OF SITE B, FIRST OBSERVED ON
REMAINS UNCHANGED.
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