SOVIET ARTICLES ON STRATEGIC MISSILES

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP10-00105R000403560001-8
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: T
• Document Page Count: 38
• Document Creation Date: December 22, 2016
• Document Release Date: May 2, 2012
• Sequence Number: 1
• Publication Date: March 1, 1962
• Content Type: MEMO

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COUNTRY USSR
SUBJECT
Prep E ~.cs
STRATEGIC MISSILE BULLETIN: "The
for Combat Operations o a Regiment Arr ii
with R-12 Missiles"
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gent Armed with __R- 2 ~_su
(Based on experience gained in exercises)
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missile operations (in ma.,s.t,ed nuclea? /rntS ile strikes ,
carried out at the start of or g
targets for destruction by the regiment may be:
-strategic missile launch sites;
-sites for the production, assembly and storage of
nuclear weapons and of means I-..- delivering them to
the target;
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-large a z"fJAeAEat9 , air force and naval bases;
-center: of political ad =n i..n.1staatio n and :.f military
industry;
-large comriunicatio centers;
-l rge factories
ar centers;
-ar seni', is Y;jd 1 .. ? rt :,: .?k s r stocks of
armaments , nisi i:,;a~~, _: >L~ ~? or s tr-i egic raw materials;
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-strategic reserves and ; ther targets of strategic
significance in the deep rear of the enemy.
In individual cases the missile regiment may be used
to destroy the most important targets of operational
significance .
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50X1-HUM
The preparation of a regiment for combat op?. atio:1s
embraces a variety of measures which are carried out by
comianders, staffs and services at all levels, and also
by tse subunits of the regiwient = Basic among these
measures are:
-the determination and allocation of combat tasks;
-the selection and preparation of siting areas and
of the road network;
--the transport and 5toci.piling of missiles, nose
cores and missile fuel components;
-the movement of subuni-.rs into the siting area
and their deployment in combat formation;
-the organization of communications and control;
-combat, geodetic, meteorological, engineer and
medical support;
-the organization of coordination with the technical
repair base (remontno-tekhnicheskaya baza - BTB) support-
ing the combat operations of the regiment;
-the advance planning of nuclear/missile strikes
against enemy targets;
-the systematic carrying out of exercises with the
subunits, aimed at increasing the smooth functioning,
c l.arity and speed of their onerftion in the fulfilment
o fire missions;
-organization of the carrying out of combat duty
and advance preparation of the procedure and sequence
for the receipt of signals (orders) on transition to
the appropriate stage of readiness or on the preparation
of missiles for launching, and also of the order for
reporting on the fulfilment of the signals and commands
M
to the commander of the large unit.
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