SS-18 ICBM DISPERSAL TRAINING EXERCISE DOMBAROVSKIY POSSIBLE DISPERSAL TRAINING AREA 1, USSR (SANITIZED)

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• Publication Date: October 24, 1983
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SS-18 ICBM DISPERSAL TRAINING EXERCISE
DOMBAROVSKIY POSSIBLE DISPERSAL TRAINING AREA 1, USSR (SWN)
1. SIGNIFICANCE: A LARGE-SCALE DISPERSAL TRAINING EXERCISE
INVOLVING 1AJOR PIECES OF SS-18 EQUIPMENT WAS OBSERVED AT
DOMBAROVSKIY. (SWN)
2. REMARKS: I IA LARGE-SCALE SS-1.8 25X1
DISPERSAL TRAINING EXERCISE WAS IN PROGRESS AT DOTIBAROVSKIY
DISPERSAL TRAINING AREA (PTA) 1. NO ACTIVITY WAS OBSERVED IN
AND TI-IF EXERCISE WAS CONCLUDE25X1
INS 32 REVETMENTS AND IS 2 NM 25X1
NORTH-NORTHEAST OF TIIE PO'IBAROVSKIY ICBM RAIL-TO-ROAD TRANSFER
POINT THE EXERCISE INVOLVED AN SS-18 25X1
CAN/CAP TRANSPORTER, A NEWLY IDENTIFIED PROBABLE SS-1.8 LOWER
CANISTER SUPPORT FRAMEWORK, APPROXIMATELY 50 VEHICLES, ANT)
NUMEROUS TENTS. THIS WAS THE FIRST IDENTIFICATION OF A CAN/CAP
TRANSPORTER IN A FIELD TRAINING AREA. TILE POSITIONING OF THE
TRANSPORTER IVITII THE CANISTER SUPPORT T'RA"1E[1ORK SUGGESTS THAT A
ROLL TRANSFER OF AN SS-18 LOWER CANISTER SECTION WAS CONDUCTED.
A FRA'1EIVORK OF THIS TYPE COULD BE USED TO STORE CANISTERS 'TOR
RESUPPLY. ALTHOUGH NO CANISTER SECTIONS WERE IDENTIFIED DURING
THE EXERCISE, TIIE USE OF LARGE TENTS, CANVAS SHELTERS, AND OTHER
CC?;D "METHODS PREVENTED THE POSITIVE IDENTIFICATION OF MOST
VEHICLES AND EOUIP'IENT INVOLITFI). sill N)
AN SS-18 CAN/CAP TRANSPORTER WAS IN A DRIVE-IN
REVET`IFNT AND SEVERAL SUPPORT VEHICLES WERE IN AN OPERATIONS
SUPPORT AREA (GRAPHIC 1). IN ADDITION, SS-18 GROUND SUPPORT
EQUIPMENT AND AN UNUSUALLY HIGH COUNT OF SUPPORT VEHICLES WERE
IN THE RTP. (SWN)
TIIE CAN/CAP TRANSPORTER HAD BEEN REMOVED FROM THE 25X1
DRIVE-IN REVETMENT AND THE SS-18 LOWER CANISTER SUPPORT
FRAMEWORK WAS ALIGNED AT GRADE LEVEL NEXT TO THE CLOSED END OF
T11F REVETMFNT (GRAPHIC 2). ALSO, SIX REVETMENTS WERE OCCUPIED,
AND AT LEAST 30 SUPPORT VEHICLES/EQUIPMMIENT WERE DISPERSED
THROUGHOUT TIIE AREA. A LARGE CANVAS/NET COVERING WAS ERECTED
OVER 'TOUR POSSIBLE '1ULTISYSTEM PROPELLANT TRANSPORTERS ("?1SPT) IN
TIIE OPERATIONS SUPPORT AREA. IN ADDITION, TFN TENTS WERE
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PRESENT. TWO OF THESE WERE AT LEAST 30 METERS IN LENGTH. AT
THE RTP, MOST OF THE GROUND SUPPORT EQUIPMENT AND AT LEAST HALF
OF THE SUPPORT VEHICLES SEEN HAD DEPARTED THE 25X1
AREA. (SWN)
PARTIAL COVERAGE OF THE DTA REVEALED THAT THE 25X1
EXERCISE WAS CONTINUING. (SWN)
11 OF THE 32 REVETMENTS IN THE DTA WERE
OCCUPIED. A CANVAS-COVERED POSSIBLE CAN/CAP TRANSPORTER WAS IN
THE SAME REVETMENT OCCUPIED BY A CAN/CAP TRANSPORTER
THE PROBABLE LOWER CANISTER SUPPORT
FRAMEWORK HAD BEEN COVERED WITH A CANVAS-COVERED SHELTER. ALSO,
A CANVAS-COVERED POSSIBLE TYPE V WARHEAD TRANSPORTER WAS IN ONE
OF THE OTHER REVETMENTS AND AT LEAST 40 SUPPORT VEHICLES, SOME
IN CONVOY, WERE IN THE AREA. IN THE OPERATIONS SUPPORT AREA, A
SECOND LARGE CANVAS/NET COVERING WAS OVER TWO POSSIBLE M SPT AND
SUPPORT VEHICLES. IN ADDITION, A HIP HELICOPTER WAS
APPROXIMATELY 300 METERS FROM THE DTA, AND A PROBABLE FIELD
COMMUNICATIONS UNIT CONSISTING OF TWO VAN-TYPE TRUCKS WAS NEARBY
(NOT ON GRAPHIC). AT THE RTP, NO SS-18 GROUND SUPPORT EQUIPMENT
OR OTHER SUPPORT VEHICLES WERE OBSERVED. (SWN)
2FU-I
25X1
THIS IS THE SECOND LARGE DISPERSAL TRAINING EXERCISE OBSERVED AT
DOMBAROVSKIY THAT INVOLVED MAJOR PIECES OF SS-1.8 FOUIPMENT. IN
MARCH 1982. SIX MSPT AND AT LEAST 80 VEHICLES/EQUIPMENT WERE IN
DTA 4 WHICH IS 15 NM NORTH OF THE RTP. SI'1ILAR 25X1
EXERCISES HAVE ALSO BEEN 25X1
AND AT 7.HANr,I7.'"OBE DTA 2bA]
25X1
3.I COORDINATES 51-03-36N 059-49-14F (S)
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