BALAKLAVA MISSILE TEST CENTER, USSR (BE NAME: BALAKLAVA COASTAL DEFENSE TEST SITE, CRUISE MISSILE)

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CENTRAL INTELLIGENCE AGENCY
Directorate of Intelligence
Imagery Analysis Service
Balaklava Coastal Defense Test Site, Cruise Missile*
GEOGRAPHIC COORDINATES
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Based on the results of this study, action is being initiated to change the
name of this installation to Balaklava Missile Test Center.
ABSTRACT
Photographic analysis indicates that the facility known as the Balaklava
Coastal Defense Test Site, Cruise Missile has been involved for a.number of
years in research and development of both naval ballistic and cruise missile
weapon systems. The role of Balaklava in cruise missile testing has been gen-
erally accepted for some time, but its involvement in ballistic missile testing
is published for the first time in this report.
The installation presently consists of seven separate areas, of which four
are believed to support ballistic missile testing. These four are a probable
ballistic missile pop-up test facility, a liquid propellant service area, a bun-
kered missile storage area, and a primary monitoring and control facility. In
addition, there are a cruise missile launch area and base support facility, as
well as a missile assembly and handling facility which probably supports both
ballistic and cruise missile testing operations. Most of the cruise missile
facilities at the center were present when the area was first photographed in
1956, whereas all of the ballistic missile facilities have been built since 1959.
The facility which we believe is probably for underwater pop-up tests of
submarine launched ballistic missiles is generally similar to the US pop-up
missile test facilities at San Clemente Island in California. The equipment to
support such tests may have been present at Balaklava as early as 1960, and was
certainly there by the end of 1961. The early testing possibly involved the
SS-N-5. Although there is no direct photographic confirmation of this, the
SS-N-5 is the only underwater launched ballistic missile known to have been
under development at that time. In 1964, preparations were begun for a second
series of tests. These included an expansion of the ballistic missile support
facilities and the installation of new testing equipment in the probable pop-up
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test facility. Sightings of SS-N-6 equipment have been made on several occasions
at Balaklava beginning in 1966. On this basis, we believe that the second series
of tests was associated with the SS-N-6 missile program. Activities observed in
the area in late 1969 suggest either development of a third ballistic missile
system or extensive modification to an existing system.
Considering the size and extent of its facilities, the Balaklava instal-
lation may be the primary short-range cruise missile test center in the USSR.
Samlet cruise missiles have been identified there since.1964. In addition,,
two new cruise missiles have been observed at the test center and its associated
open storage area since April 1966.
INTRODUCTION
The Balaklava Missile Test Center is located 6 nautical miles (nm) south
of Sevastopol, USSR. It is situated along the edge of a high cliff overlooking
the Black Sea (Figure I). Security consists of a triple fencing around five
of the seven areas at the installation.
The SS-N-6 submarine launched ballistic missile and the Samlet coastal de-
fense cruise missile are the only two known weapons systems identified at. the
center to date. There are indications, however, that possibly two other ballistic
missile systems and two other cruise missile systems have been tested there.
This report is based on a review of all photographic coverage of the Balaklava
facilities from July 1956 through November 1969. The analysis is limited some-
what,by the fact that there was very little large-scale coverage of Balaklava
prior to 1968.
NOTE: This report has been published as an interim Basic Imagery Interpretation
Report with the concurrence of the National Photographic Interpretation
Center.
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The probable ballistic missile'facilities at Balaklava consist of a
probable ballistic missile pop-up test facility, a liquid propellant service
area, a bunkered missile storage area, a primary monitoring and control
facility, and a missile assembly and handling facility which probably sup-
ports both ballistic and cruise missile testing operations.
Probable Pop-Up Test Facility
The probable ballistic missile pop-up test facility, located in a
small cove below the Balaklava cliffs, consists of two sets of four large
stabilizer buoys of unusual configuration (see Figure 2). The buoys are
positioned approximately 1,700 feet from the shoreline, in water about
100 feet deep. This facility is probably used to test the ascent of a
missile launched underwater to that point where it has cleared the water
and the first stage engines would ignite.
Several smaller circular buoys of two sizes are also located in the
area and at least two of these have been noted inside the western set of
stabilizer buoys. These small buoys probably provide a close-in mooring
capability for support vessels. They may also serve to suspend underwater
high speed cameras and acoustic detection equipment or provide a support
base for special wave measurement instruments.
Probable Pop-Up Test Equipment
The stabilizer buoys, the possible ballistic missile launch device,
and certain other equipment used at Balaklava were apparently constructed
at Nosenko Shipyard 444 at Nikolayevsk. This equipment has also been seen
at various times at the Balaklava Submarine Base and Ship Repair Yard
(hereafter referred to as Balaklava Submarine Base) which appears to pro-
vide general support to the Balaklava Missile Test Center.
Stabilizer Buoys. The first set of uniquely configured stabilizer
buoys was installed in the probable ballistic missile pop-up test facility
at Balaklava in August and September 1964. In August 1966, a single
stabilizer buoy of the same type was observed at Balaklava Submarine Base,
(Figure 3) and by June 1968 it had been installed at the probable pop-up
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facility. Three more buoys of this type were seen in varying stages of
construction at Nosenko Shipyard 444 between October 1966 and April 1968.
In August 1968, they were seen at the shipyard lashed together ready for
transport. In September 1968, three identical buoys had been installed
at the probable pop-up test facility, thereby completing the second set
of buoys.
Possible Launch Device. During the same general time that the last
set of stabilizer buoys was being constructed at Nosenko, two unidentified
floating structures were under construction on a quay in the shipyard.
One of these seemed slightly larger than the other and appeared to have a
cylindrical object positioned in its center. Considering the appearance
of these structures and the fact that similar structures were later seen
along with stabilizer buoys at Balaklava Submarine Base, we believe that
the structure with the cylindrical object in the center may be an under-
water launch device used for ballistic missile pop-up tests (Figures 3
and 4). The possible underwater launch device was present at Nosenko
Shipyard 444 until the summer of 1967. On it was floating 25X1
beside the quay and on it had been removed. A similar 25X1
structure, probably the same one, was seen at Balaklava Submarine Base for
the first time in April 1968, moored alongside a stabilizer buoy and two
of the floating structures without cylindrical objects (Figure 3).
Other Floating Equipment. The floating structures without the cylin-
drical object are probably used in support of underwater launch activities,
although their role is not known. Three of these structures have been
observed to date -- one at Nosenko Shipyard 444 and two others at the
Balaklava Submarine Base. The structure seen at Nosenko Shipyard 444 was
completed and in the water in June 1968. By August 1968 it had been re-
moved from the shipyard at Nikolayev, but as recently as June 1969 was
not evident in the Balaklava area. The two structures observed at the
submarine base were probably associated with earlier underwater test pro-
grams since one was probably present there in July 1964 and could not be
negated. The second one first appeared in August 1966, but was not pre-
sent in July 1965.
Shipborne Support Elements
Various types of vessels have been seen near the probable ballistic
missile pop-up test facility on many occasions. The T-43 Class MSF
(minesweeper) and small tugboats have been seen most often. In March
1968 a W-Class submarine was moored beside a large floating crane adjacent
to the test area. A similar submarine and crane were later seen at the
Balaklava Submarine Base located 3 nm east of the missile test center.
In June 1962 an unidentified surface vessel was seen tethered to an
unidentified object in the center of the stabilizer buoys (Figure 5). The
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unidentified object could have been part of the probable pop-up test
facility, perhaps a launch device, and the presence of the vessel suggests
that a test was probably in progress.
Shore Based Instrumentation and Monitoring Facilities
A probable launch control or instrumentation facility consisting of
two buildings is located on the shoreline directly opposite the probable
ballistic missile pop-up test facility (Figure'6). At least one and probably
two large underwater cables extend from one of the buildings into the water,
toward the probable pop-up test facility.
Along the cliff edge directly above the probable launch control or
instrumentation facility is the primary monitoring and control facility,
Instrumentation Site 6. This facility consists of a: control building with
a possible instrumentation component on its roof, as well as a probable
instrumentation building and small unidentified probable instrumentation
device which are cable-connected to the main control building. Three small
probable optical devices are mounted on the ground in front of the main
control building. Just west of the building is a large open storage or
instrumentation area containing varying amounts of van-mounted telemetry
antennas, support vans, and unidentified pieces of equipment.
In addition to Instrumentation Site 6, there are five other instru-
mentation sites along the cliff edge which are probably associated with
missile pop-up tests (see Figure I). Instrumentation Sites 3 and 9 are
nearly identical; each contains two enclosed optical devices, one unidentified
possible optical component, one probable camera mount, a Shipwheel radar
position and several supporting vans, and generator units. Instrumentation
Sites 5, 7, and 8 each consist of a small probable optical device.
Similarity to U.S. Navy Test Facilities
Identification of the probable ballistic missile pop-up test facility
at Balaklava is based mainly on its general similarity to the San Clemente
Island Range of the United States Navy Underseas Warfare Center. The San
Clemente Island Range conducted the initial pop-up tests for the Polaris
missile between 1957 and 1964.
The probable pop-up facilities at Balaklava differ in some respects
from those at San Clemente, but the types of facilities and their general
arrangement are similar at the two locations. Like Balaklava, the San
Clemente operations area is located in relatively shallow water below a
high bluff. The surface components used for Polaris pop-up testing con-
sisted of some ten large stabilizer buoys, tethered together, which supported
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a large net. The net served to catch the dummy missile when it fell back
toward the water following a pop-up test. Numerous smaller buoys were
used to suspend instrumentation units near the pop-up device. A floating
crane and other surface vessels were also present from time to time.
Several instrumentation sites were placed above the operations area on the
bluff, in position to monitor the tests.
Missile Handling and Support Facilities
Facilities providing logistic support to the probable ballistic
missile test program consist of a liquid propellant service area, a missile
assembly and handling facility, and a bunkered missile storage area. A
large base support facility, constructed primarily to support the cruise
missile program, was subsequently enlarged and probably also provides some
support for the probable ballistic missile program.
The present liquid propellant service area has been constructed
adjacent to the original propellant facility at Balaklava. The area now
consists of two large service aprons like those at Nenoksa Missile Test
Center and Severodvinsk Naval Missile Support Facility, two identical
oxidizer storage sheds, and two buried probable fuel tanks. Each of the
service aprons is individually secured and a lightning arrestor is located
near each oxidizer storage shed. The area also contains two small prob-
able propellant sheds and a probable water storage tank which remain from
the original facility, but are probably no longer in use (Figure 7).
At various times, SS-N-6 missile equipment has been observed on photo-
graphy on both the loop service road and the east service apron of the
liquid propellant service area. Propellant transporters, KRAZ-214 propel-
lant servicing vehicles, and several unidentified transporter semitrailers
have also been observed here.
The missile assembly and handling facility is separately secured and
consists of three large and one small drive-through buildings, one drive-
into building, and six other buildings. An SS-N-6 missile dolly was seen
here in June 1969. A small mobile crane and several unidentified vans
have been seen here intermittently since August 1966.
The missile storage area is separately secured and consists of
three bunkered drive-through missile storage buildings, one small bunkered
missile component storage building, one security building, and a power
plant (Figure I). It is not clear from their appearance alone whether
the storage bunkers are associated with either cruise missiles or ballistic
missiles. However, their construction timing (detailed in a later para-
graph) and location near the liquid propellant service area, where only
ballistic missile equipment has been seen, suggest that their primary
role is in support of ballistic missile testing.
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Chronological Development
Original Facilities. The support facilities for the probable ballistic
missile test program at Balaklava were first observed under construction in
February 1960. Construction had probably started sometime in 1959. None
of the probable ballistic missile test facilities were present on the only
previous photographic coverage of the area in July 1956.
In February 1960, the primary monitoring and control building was
under construction and the missile assembly and handling facility was
being expanded. The original propellant service area and three drive-
through bunkered missile storage buildings were being constructed.
The first set of four stabilizer buoys was observed in position in.
December 1961. They were not present in February 1960.
The time of construction of the original probable ballistic missile
test facilities indicates that Balaklava may have been involved with the
initial pop-up testing of the SS-N-5, which was the only underwater launched
ballistic missile known to have been under development at that time.
Expansion of Facilities. During the 1963-66 time period, the probable
ballistic missile test facilities at Balaklava underwent a major expansion.
It now seems likely that the expansion was associated with testing of the
SS-N-6 submarine launched ballistic missile.
By mid-1963 Instrumentation Sites 3, 5, 8, 9 and part of Site 7 were
under construction; they appeared complete in mid-1964. During August
and September 1964, a second set of four stabilizer buoys was emplaced
just west of the original buoys. The new buoys were distinctly different
in appearance from the original ones. Each new stabilizer buoy consisted
of four tanks lashed together, whereas the original stabilizer buoys were
rectangular in shape and probably consisted of a platform supported by
several tanks (Figure 3). Dismantling of the original set of buoys had
started in December 1964, but was not complete until June 1967.
Expansion of the liquid propellant service area was begun in 1965.
The area could have been partially operational late in 1965 and was prob-
ably complete by June 1966.
In April 1966, construction was noted at the primary monitoring and
control facility and the missile assembly and handling facility. By
August 1966, the monitoring and control building had been nearly doubled
in size and two small buildings had been constructed near it. The small
drive-in building at the missile assembly and handling facility was also
completed at that time. In August 1966 a canvas-covered SS-N-6 and an
SS-N-6 missile dolly were seen in the liquid propellant service area for
the first time.
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During 1967 Instrumentation Sites 3 and 9 appeared to have been con-
nected by a cable ditch to the primary monitoring and control facility.
In 1968 two unidentified transporter semitrailers, one canvas covered
and without a prime mover, were seen on intermittent occasions at the
propellant service area (Figure 7). Although the semitrailers appeared
slightly different, due to the canvas covering, they were probably the
same. In June 1968, emplacement of another set of stabilizer buoys was
started at the same location where the original buoys had been placed.
By September all four buoys were in place.
Timing of SS-N-6 Program. Based on the expansion of the probable
ballistic missile test facilities at Balaklava in the 1963-66 period and
the sightings of SS-N-6 equipment there beginning in 1966, Balaklava is
believed to have conducted pop-up tests of the SS-N-6 missile. Initial
pop-up tests of the liquid-fueled SS-N-6 may have begun as early as the
fall of 1965 when the liquid propellant service area was expanded.
Actual test firings of the SS-N-6 were conducted at Kapustin Yar
Missile Test Center. Construction of the launch area for the SS-N-6 at
Kapustin Yar began in early 1965 and was probably completed in the fall of
1965. The first reported firing of the SS-N-6 from Kapustin Yar, however,
did not occur until September 1966. Final evaluation of the SS-N-6 probably
occurred at the White Sea Test Range, beginning in August 1967.
Possible New Test Program. Some of the activities observed during 1968
suggest that a new test program, perhaps involving a new underwater launched
ballistic missile system, may already have begun at Balaklava. This evidence
includes the installation of the third set of stabilizer buoys, the presence
of an unidentified semitrailer and transporter at the liquid propellant
service area, and the presence of the possible launch device at Balaklava
Submarine Base. If the transporter semitrailers at the liquid propellant
service area are in fact valid indicators, they suggest that any new
ballistic missile undergoing tests at Balaklava is at least partially liquid
fueled. It is possible that some of the activities at Balaklava may be
related to the June 1969 firing of a new naval ballistic missile from Nenoksa
Missile Test Center.
Cruise Missile Facilities
The cruise missile test facilities at Balaklava consist of a launch
area with two uniquely configured launch pads, part of the large missile
assembly and handling facility which also serves the ballistic missile pro-
gram, and the base support facility which contains a large administration
and support area and an open storage area. Originally, the Balaklava
facility was considered to be an operational cruise missile launch site, but
since April 1968 photographic analysis has indicated that it conducts cruise
missile testing.
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CANVAS-COVERED SAMLET
ON TRANSPORTER?
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The Balaklava.cruise missile launch area is separately secured. It
contains two elliptical, unrevetted concrete pads which are periodically
mottled with disruptive paint (Figure 8). Their size, appearance, approach-
ways, and proximity to one another are all dissimilar to an operational Samlet
cruise missile launch area. No missiles have ever been seen in the launch area.
Immediately to the rear of the launch pads are a probable guidance area
and several small unoccupied possible optical instrumentation positions. A
large drive-through, bunkered missile handling building and one small drive-
through, separately secured checkout building are also associated with the
launch area.
Support and Instrumentation Facilities
The missile assembly and handling facility is separately secured and con-
sists of two large drive-through buildings which were originally constructed
to support the cruise missile program. The facility has been doubled in size
since 1960, when the ballistic missile program was probably introduced at
Balaklava (Figure 8). The base support facility is separately secured and
located west of the primary monitoring and control facility. It consists of
four multistory administration-type buildings, several barracks, numerous
workshops, a large motor pool, an open storage area, a military personnel
obstacle course, and numerous athletic fields.
Instrumentation Site I was apparently constructed for a limited series
of tests. It consists of several van-mounted unidentified antennas positioned
on five pads near the edge of the cliff. It was built in 1963 and appeared
to be abandoned in early 1967. Its location suggests that its function may
have been to monitor a vehicle launched from a surface vessel.
Instrumentation Sites 2, 4, and 7 were present prior to the advent of
the ballistic missile program and are probably associated with cruise missile
activities (Figure I). A Sheet Bend/Square Head radar van has been seen at
various times at Instrumentation Site 2. Instrumentation Site 4 probably
consisted of an optical instrumentation component, but the site has not been
seen active from 1960 to the present. Instrumentation Site 7 consists of
two small buildings, at least one of which possibly houses optical equipment,
and a small hardstand which is periodically occupied by an unidentified van.
This site may monitor both cruise missile and ballistic missile activity.
The cruise missiles observed at Balaklava have all been located in the
open storage area of the base support facility (see Figure 9). To date, three
different types of cruise missiles have been observed there. Two Samlet
missiles, one canvas-covered Samlet on a transporter, and an associated tower-
mounted radar have been observed at various times since 1964. In addition, a
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small swept-wing probable cruise missile, resembling the Samlet, and a
delta-wing probable cruise missi le have been observed on several occasions
beginning in April 1966. The following is a summary of the cruise missiles
observed on large-scale photography in the open storage area:
Date
Samlet Missiles
Swept-Wing Missiles
Delta-Wing Missiles
Apr
64
3
None discernible
None discernible
Apr
66
3
3
1
Sep
66
3
3
I
Mar
67
3
I
1
Jun
67
3
I
1*
Aug
67
3
I
1*
Dec
67
3
0
1*
Mar
68
3
0'
1 *
Aug
68
3
0
1*
Sep
68
3
1
1*
Mar
69
3
1
1*
Apr
69
3
I
1*
Jun
69
3
I
1*
Aug
69
3
I
1*
* Wings folded or removed
The small swept-wing probable cruise missile is approximately 15 feet
long and has a wing span of about 9 feet. It has been collocated with a
inclined probable launcher, and on several occasions one of
these missiles was resting on the launcher (Figure 9). Most of the cruise
missile activity has evidently involved this missile, judging by fluctuations
in the number sighted since 1966.
The delta-wing probable cruise missile is approximately
and has a wingspan. It is unlike any other known. Soviet cruise
missile. No vans or other equipment have been collocated with it.
Because of the small scale of the photography prior to 1966, it has not
been possible to determine how long either of these new configuration missiles
have been present.
Numerous van trailers, trucks, cranes and one unidentified approximately
probable shipping crate have also been seen in the open storage area. 25X1
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Chronological Development
The launch pads, the missile assembly and handling facility, and the
base support facility were present and operational when first seen on over-
head photography in July 1956. This indicates that cruise missile tests
were conducted at Balaklava prior to that time. The cruise missile facilities
were being expanded in February 1960 when a bunkered missile handling building
was under construction. By December 1961 all construction appeared complete.
Relatively minor changes occurred until June 1963 when the base support facil-
ity was expanded to include a new administration building and the open
storage area. Instrumentation Site I was under construction during the
summer of 1963.
Samlet equipment was first identified at the open storage area in
April 1964. Instrumentation Site I was occupied in June 1964. Little
activity was noted throughout 1965.
Large-scale photography of April 1966 revealed the delta- and swept-
wing probable cruise missiles and one missile checkout and support van
trailer in the open storage area. Several new buildings were added in the
base support facility during 1966. Vans were still present at Instrumen-
tation Site I during 1966. Very little change was noted throughout the
cruise missile support facilities from March 1967 through September 1968.
In January 1969 a complete rearrangement of missiles and equipment occurred
in the open storage area, but no new components were added.
Requirement
COMIREX R01
Project Number 050408
Support Number 420335
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