HOOK VARIANT AT SOVIET AVIATION AIRFIELDS IN THE USSR AND EAST EUROPE

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• Collection: NGA Records (Formerly NIMA)
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP80T00913A000300200001-4
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: T
• Document Page Count: 6
• Document Creation Date: December 28, 2016
• Document Release Date: May 18, 2010
• Sequence Number: 1
• Publication Date: May 1, 1980
• Content Type: REPORT

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imagery analysis report
HOOK Variant at Soviet Aviation Airfields in the
USSR and East Europe
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HOOK VARIANT AT SOVIET AVIATION AIRFIELDS
IN THE USSR AND EAST EUROPEF-1
SUMMARY
helicopter emporarily designated the HOOK ~Variant y by NPIC). This variant 1 has been hidenttiiffi d
on KEYHOLE imagery at 11 Soviet avi
ti
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on airfields in the USSR
slovakia. Special-purpose (SP) HOOK helico
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nw
c
p
ers are housed at each of the airfields
ere
the
HOOK Variant has been identified. This association with the SP HOOK suggests that the HOOK
Variant may be used for command post functions.]
2. E?wo location maps, a table, and a photograph are included in this report.
DISCUSSION
3. ~ Figures 1 and 2 show the locations of the 11 Soviet aviation airfields in the USSR
and East Europe where the HOOK Variant has been identified, and Table I lists the airfields by
military district or country.
a blade antenna dorsally mounted on the tail boom, a
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horizontal stabilizer. Other distinguishing features, observable on hand-held photography (inset,
Figure 3) include a spikelike protuberance farther back on the tail boom and four ventrally
mounted blade antennas.
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East urope, and Mongolia (S), Aug 78 (TOP SFCRFT u
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FIGURE 1. LOCATIONS OF SOVIET AVIATION AIRFIELDS IN THE USSR HOUSING THE HOOK VARIANT HELICOPTER
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FIGURE 2. LOCATIONS OF SOVIET AVIATION AIRFIELDS IN EAST EUROPE HOUSING THE HOOK VARIANT HELICOPTER
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Soviet Aviation Airfields in the USSR and East Europe
Housing the HOOK Variant Helicopter
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Military District
or
Country
Belorussian
Far East
Transbaikal
Airfield
Name
Minsk/Slepyanka
Belogorsk
Chita Airfield
Northwest
Ulan-Ude/Mukhino
Tbilisi/Novo
Alekseyevka
26th
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23d
23d
34th
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