LAUNCH COMPLEX D AND WINGED VEHICLE AT LAUNCH AREA 3D KAPUSTIN YAR / VLADIMIROVKA MISSLE TEST CENTER, USSR

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• Publication Date: October 1, 1964
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PHOTOGRAPHIC INTERPRETATION REPORT
LAUNCH COMPLEX D /
AND WINGED VEHICLE AT LAUNCH AREA 3D,
W, KAPUSTIN YAR/VLADIMIROVKA /
MISSILE TEST CENTER, USSR
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LAUNCH COMPLEX D AND WINGED VEHICLE AT LAUNCH AREA 3D,
KAPUSTIN YAR/VLADIMIROVKA MISSILE TEST CENTER, USSR
This photographic interpretation report was
prepared in response to requirements
UGMC-64, DIAXX 64-14, C-SI4-
81,587, and GMAIC 10-64, and is one of a series
of reports updating information on the SSM
facilities at the Kapustin Yar/Vladimirovka Mis-
sile Test Center (KY/VMTC), shown in Figure 1.
This report covers Launch Complex D (Fig-
ure 2) and also includes a detailed study of a
winged vehicle observed at Launch Area 3D on
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the basis for updating of information on the
facilities.
MissionI provided photographic cov-
erage of a winged vehicle on an inclined prob-
able launcher in Launch Area 3D, KY/VMTC
(Figure 3). This winged vehicle, while identi-
fiable, is on photographic coverage of only fair
quality. and all dimensions must be considered
as approximate. The winged vehicle has a total
slant length of approximately 70 feet and has a
delta wing at the rear. Only one side of this
wing is visible, so an estimated total width of
40 feet is even more approximate as the center
point on the 5- to 10-foot "fuselage" must be
estimated. This fuselage appears to taper at
the front. Approximately 15 feet from the nose
there are possible cunard fins. No configuration
or measurements can be determined for these
items. The delta wing appears to have either
a heavy fairing or double delta section where it
joins the fuselage approximately 30 to 35 feet
from the tail. The one leading edge visible has
a sweep back of approximately
The winged vehicle is inclined, with the nose
raised and pointed downrange. It is located on
a scarred area north of the loop road serving the
launch pad. The rear of the winged vehicle is
over a permanent small object, suggesting that
the rear of the launcher is fastened to this in
some manner. This is probably a launch point
as it is connected by probable conduit back to the
control section of the launch pad. The launch
structures on the pad which was under construc-
tion in appar-
ently have been removed and all that remains on
the pad is a slightly raised platform or line.
There were also at least three unidentified
vehicles/pieces of equipment on the northern of
the two roads entering the drive-through assem-
bly and checkout building to the rear of the launch
position. The poor resolution of the photography
does not permit any further identification or
mensuration of these objects.
Launch Area ID (Figure 4) at Launch Com-
plex D shows no apparent change since
although two items identified on
photography can now be reevaluated
because of the larger scale of Mission I
photography. One of these items, originally
identified as a revetment, can now be seen to be
a catch basin. A pipeline leads from this basin
to the control bunker. The second item, identified
as a catch basin on Mission hotography,
is actually a revetted entranceway leading be-
neath Launch Site 1D-3.
The only activity at Launch Area 1D is a
probable cargo truck in motion on the Site 1D-3
launch pad and an irregularly shaped object
approximately 70 feet long is located on the rail
line immediately behind the Site ID-1 rail-
served launch structure.
Launch Area 2D (Figure 5) shows no ap-
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However, an exercise was in progress in the
north section of the area in
sion = The exercise includes nine vehi-
of a 40- by 25-foot building just northeast of
the double-road-served drive-through building
The general layout of the vehicles and equipment
resembles the vehicles and equipment layout of
a SCUD B meteorological unit. 1/
Launch Area 3D (Figures 6 and 7) has shown
no apparent change in facilities since I
2/ but the larger scale of
Mission photography enables identification
FIGURE 3.LAUNCH AREA 3D. Winged vehicle on probablelauncher. and a circular bunker approximately 25 feet in
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diameter just southeast of the drive-through
building. Another building previously uniden-
tified as to function can now be seen to be a
heat plant.
Launch Area 4D (Figure 8) has shown no
further signs of new construction since I
All construction efforts
had apparently ceased before ~nd the
partially constructed facilities--the pad area,
support buildings, and access road into the
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area to either side which could be utilized for
field exercises or firings.
The Final Assembly and Checkout Area
(Figure 9) is located approximately 8 nautical
miles south-southwest of Launch Complex D
Red denotes newly identified items
Road ----- Track/scarring
Fence Guard tower
FIGURE 7. LAYOUT OF LAUNCH AREA 3D.
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connected by rail to the launch facility at Launch long and 4 approximately 35 feet long were
Area ID. One new vehicle storage/maintenance parked within the area. An unidentified object
building, approximately 95 by 40 feet, was added was on the rail line just protruding from the
in the area west-southwest of the assembly and west end of the assembly and checkout building.
checkout building between
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