SSM UNIT IN TRANSIT MOSCOW, USSR

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: NGA Records (Formerly NIMA)
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP78T04751A000300020010-0
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: S
• Document Page Count: 1
• Document Creation Date: December 28, 2016
• Document Release Date: June 1, 2001
• Sequence Number: 10
• Publication Date: January 7, 1960
• Content Type: BRIEF

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S-E-C-R-E-T
CENTRAL INTELLIGENCE AGENCY
PHOTOGRAPHIC INTELLIGENCE CENTER
Copy No. _e
This material contains information affecting the National Defense of the United States within the meaning of the Espionage Laws, Title
18, U.S.C. Seca. 793 and 794, the transmission or revelation of which in any manner to an unauthorized person is prohibited by law.
SUBJECT : SSM Unit in Transit
LOCATION : Moscow, USSR
WAG NUMBER: 167
REFERENCE: Army, Moscow.^
A. series of ground photographs taken in Moscow
NO. : PIC/B-1001/60
DATE : 7 January 1960
4 Nov 59. (S) 25X1A
25X1 D
shows part of a train transporting vehicles of a road-mobile surface-to-surface
missile (SSM) system. The train which was in the rail yard near Lenin 25X1C
Stadium, was stated by to consist of about 30 flatcars
and 10 boxcars. The flatcars were repor e to carry 3 fuel semitrailers, 3
acid or liquid-oxygen semitrailers, 2 missile transporter/trailers, 8 ZIS-151
trucks with van-type bodies, 8 ZIS-151 trucks with shop/van-type bodies, 5
ZIS-151 general-purpose trucks, and about 20 two-wheeled trailers. Of the
reported equipment, the photographs cover 5 tank-type semitrailers, 2 missile
transporter/trailers, and about 15 trucks.
Most important are the two canvas-covered, two-axle, missile transporter/
trailers located on four of the flatcars. These flatcars appear similar to a
type known to be 34 feet .long. On the basis of this length, the transporter/
trailers measure about 66 feet long, and the distance between axles is. about 33
feet. The distance between the front of the transporter /trailer and what is
believed to be the forward cradle arm is about 21 feet. The large missile
transporter/trailer photographed in the November 1957 Moscow parade mea-
sures 65 feet long, and the distance between the axles is 34.6 feet. The distance
from the front of this transporter /trailer to the first cradle arm is 28 feet.
From this comparison it can be concluded that the missile transporter /trailer
on the train is quite similar to the transporter /trailer with, missile seen in
the Moscow parade which is believed to be carrying the Shyster missile (SS-4).
25X1 C
It should be noted that no tracked prime movers were on the train and
that the trucks identified s ZIS-151 are by design rather light for
hauling this type of loads transporter/trailer. The latticework undercarriage
of one of the transporter /trailers is probably the tongue:of the trailer in a
reversed position for transporting and does not indicate that the trailer may
.also be a launcher, as suggested 25X1C
Declass Review by NIMA / DoD
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