FIRST IDENTIFICATION OF PROBABLE SS-18 REENTRY VEHICLE IMPACT CRATERS, USSR

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• Document Release Date: July 14, 2011
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• Publication Date: May 1, 1975
• Content Type: REPORT

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NATIONAL PHOTOGRAPHIC
INTERPRETATION CENTER
PHOTOGRAPHIC
I NTERPRETATION
REPORT
FIRST IDENTIFICATION OF
PROBABLE SS-18 REENTRY VEHICLE
IMPACT CRATERS. USSR
MAY 1975
PI R-018/75
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FIRST IDENTIFICATION OF PROBABLE SS-18 REENTRY
VEHICLE IMPACT CRATERS, USSR
1. I 113 new impact craters, probably made by reentry
vehicles from two separate SS-18 (Mod 2) ICBMs, were identified on Kamchatka Peninsula (Figure
1). This was the first identification of probable SS-18 reentry vehicle impact craters.
2. Seven of these craters were within Poluostrov Kamchatka Impact Area 1
Six of these seven (craters 1-5 and 7) were clustered within a 3.0-nautical-mile (nm)
radius of
57-22-30N 161-43-OOE (Figure 2). An instrumentation tower was 2.5 nm east of these coordinates
(Figure 1). Crater 6 (Figure 3) was 9.7 nm north of the cluster of six. Crater 8 (Figure 3) was
26.0 nm to the south-southwest, in Poluostrov Kamchatka Missile Impact Area 2
A second instrumentation tower was 0.7 nm west-northwest of crater 8 (Figure 1). Crater 9 (Figure
4) was 19.5 nm northwest of the cluster of six. A third instrumentation tower (not shown in Figure
1) was 4.9 nm west of crater 9. Crater 10 (Figure 4) was 12.5 nm northeast of the cluster of six;
crater 11 (Figure 4) was 14.5 nm to the southeast; crater 12 (Figure 4) was 18.0 nm to the southeast;
and crater 13 (Figure 5) was 24.0 nm to the south-southwest.
3. Five aircraft were observed in the area of the impact craters (Figure 1). A HIP C helicopter
was parked 250 feet east of crater 4 (Figure 5). A HOUND helicopter was parked 1,000 feet west
of crater 9. Three COLT light-transport aircraft were observed in flight within the impact area. One
was 3.1 nm north-northwest of the cluster of six craters; one was within 2 nm south of crater 12;
another was within 1 nm northeast of crater 13.
SS-18 (Mod 2) ICBM was fired from the Tyuratam Missile/Space Test Center SSM (BE
to Kamchatka at about 2350Z.1 The time of the photography on
was 0120Z. Another SS-18 (Mod 2) ICBM was fired from Tyuratam to Kamchatka
at 0230Z.2
5. Locations and dimensions of the craters are shown in Table 1. Ranges and azimuths are
measured from the instrumentation tower at 57-23-13N 161-47-36E.
6. The 13 craters were not discernible The area of craters
8 and 13 but the craters were not present.
1
57-23-4
5N 16,575
161-42-4
0E
2
57-22-0
3N 17,695
161-42-5
1 E
3
57-23-4
6N 26,940
161-39-2
8E
4
57-24-4
4N 25,645
161-40-2
0E
5
57-21-4
2N 13,770
161-44-2
9E
6
57-32-0
6N 55,145
161-46-0
9E
7
57-22-3
5N 8,625
161-45-1
5E
8
56-57-5
7N 158,375
161-36-1
1 E
57-35-5
7N
161
16
1
9E
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57-33-2
8N
161-53-0
8E
11
57-13-2
5N
162-04-0
1 E
12
57-09-1
6N
162-05-1
OE
13
56-58-3
1 N
161-37-3
9E
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FIGURE 1. LOCATIONS OF PROBABLE SS-18 REENTRY VEHICLE IMPACT CRATERS, KAMCHATKA PENINSULA
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HIP C HELICOPTER
COLT AIRCRAFT
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