COMMUNICATIONS FACILITIES AT THE KAPUSTIN YAR SAM TEST RANGE AND THE EMBA MISSILE TEST CENTER

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: NGA Records (Formerly NIMA)
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP78T04759A009100010143-9
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: T
• Document Page Count: 4
• Document Creation Date: December 28, 2016
• Document Release Date: October 22, 2003
• Sequence Number: 143
• Publication Date: December 5, 1969
• Content Type: MF

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MEMORANDUM FOR: Chief, P04~SOC, NSA
SUBJECT: Communications Facilities at the Kapustin Yar SAM Test
Range and the Emba Missile Test Center
REFERENCE: NSA Requirement NSA~SOC~R-55-70
(NPIC Project 250582)
:L. This memorandwn is a partial response to an NSA requirement
concerning communications at Soviet Missile Test Centers, This portion
describes the microwave and other communications facilities at the
Kapustin Yar SAM Test Range and the Emba Missile Test Center. The SSM
communications facilities at the Kapustin Yar~Vladimirovka Missile Test
Center and the Tyuratam Missile Test Center will be published at a
later date.
2, Three types of communications systems are deployed at the
Kapustin Yar SAM Test Range: landline or cable-connected communica-
tions, R-400 microwave, and troposcatter dishes.
a. Tracking facilities 1 through 10, the precision tracking
radar facility, the electronics test facility, and the SAM range communi-
cations facility are interconnected by land cables. The SAM range
communications facility links these landline cable-connected facilities
with the downrange SAM facilities via the R-400 microwave and troposcatter
systems.
parabolic reflectors mounted on a mast approximately
100 feet) high. Eight facilities at the SAM range have
one microwave mast each. The only change involving the microwave system
since has been at tracking facility 10, where there is only
one of two previously reported microwave masts.
b. The R-400 microwave system utilizes one or two
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c. Four SAM facilities contain the 10-meter 0 open-mesh, 2 5X1 D
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two (60-foot) diameter troposcatter dishes were observed
at the R & D launch area at the SAM rangehead. One dish is oriented on
a the other on a 335-degree azimuth. No receiving
station has been identified with either dish. The size of the two
dishes suggests that the receiving station may be outside of the SAM range.
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SUBJECT: Communications Facilities at the Kapustin Yar SAM Test Range
and the Emba Missile Test Center
3, Attachment 1 is a line drawing of the Kapustin Yar SAM Range
showing the locations of the communications systems, Attachment 2 lists
the facilities and the type of communication systems identified,
a, Tracking facilities 2 and 3 at Emba do not contain microwave
antennas, Line drawings of interferometers under construction at tracking
facilities ~+ and 5 are shown in Attachments 3 and ~+, Photography of
tracking facilities 6 and 7 in the past year has not been of sufficient
interpretability to determine whether the dual-mounted antennas at each
facility link the two together or serve some other facility.
b, Other communications systems at the Emba Nlissile Test Center
(excluding high frequency) include under round cables, open wire telephone,
and VHF radio, DIA. report Soviet Tactical Missile Range,
August lg6g (TOP SECRET , provides a complete description
and Line drawing of communications facilities at the Emba Missile Test
Center.
6, For further information, please contact
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Chief, Imagery Exploitation Group
NPIC
NPIC,
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