EXPANSION OF TYURA TAM MISSILE TEST RANGE INSTRUMENTATION SITE 6 NM NNW OF UKA, USSR

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• Collection: NGA Records (Formerly NIMA)
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• Document Creation Date: December 28, 2016
• Document Release Date: June 4, 2001
• Sequence Number: 9
• Publication Date: May 12, 1960
• Content Type: BRIEF

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JOINT PHOTOGRAPHIC INTELLIGENCE BRIEF
ARMY-NAVY-GIA.
(Published and Disseminated by CIA./PIC)
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SUBJECT :
Expansion of Tyura Tam Missile
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PIC/JB-89/60
Test Range Instrumentation Site
DATE:
12 May 1960
LOCATION:
6 nrn NNW of Uka, USSR
LAT
57?56'N
WAC
132
LONG:
162?O1'E
MA.P DA.TA.:
SAC. US Aix Target Chart -Series 200, Sheet 0132-14A, lst ed,
May 59 (S)
REFERENCE:
C.TA. HTA./JR-4/58, Missile Launching Complex and Test Range,
Tyura Tam, USSR, Sep 58 (TSC)
REQUIREMENT: JPRC/R-7/60
identification of specie s,
Photography of overs an instrumentation site at
57?56'N/162?O1'E, a out nautica miles north-northwest of Uka, on
the Kamchatka Peninsula. This site was previously identified on photog-
raphy of in association with the terminal range
facilities of the TTMTR (instrumentation Site ''A", p 44, HTA,/JR-4/58).
The _ hoto rah shows that this site has undergone considerable
expansion This expansion includes 30-40 new support build-
ings, a large ..dome-shaped object approximately 100 feet in diameter,
and a tall self-supporting lattice tower approximately 300 feet high. In
addition, a possible 3, 500-foot landing strip is adjacent to the .site. The
extreme obliquity and .small scale of the photography prec-z.de further
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The large dome-shaped object, resembling a radome, and a .300-
foot l.a,ttice tower that may be used for calibration,. suggest the presence
of. a T.arge radar antenna. Since there appears to be ample downrange
tracking anal other instrumentation facilities already present in the
TTMT:~t, te:r.minal range area, the addition of a large radar does not seem
consistent with no:rrnal instrumentation and/or telemetry reception. Its
presence a.t the Uka site, however, indicates that it is probably ICBM-
r. elated.
Because of the size of the .assumed. antenna and the apparent re-
quirement for temperature and humidity control that would be fulfilled
by a :radome, it is suggested that the antenna would probably be used for
shin-t:r?aclc.ing a mis Bile or x?e-entry vehicle.
The extensive expansion of other facilities at this terminal range
instrumentation site lends credence to the possibility that another pro-
gram, possibly ICBM detection, is being carried. out here in addition to
the normal. miss:i.l.e tracking mission.
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