H-SHAPED RADAR TRACKING FACILITIES USSR

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• Publication Date: November 1, 1965
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A total of nineteen H-shaped radar tracking facilities have been
identified in the USSR (Figure 1). These H-shaped facilities are located
in two widely separated geographic areas, the Kapustin Yar/Vladimirovka
Missile Test Range and the Gulf of Finland/Leningrad area.
Seven H-shaped radar tracking facilities are located at the Kapustin
Yar/Vladimirovka Missile Test Range. These H-shaped facilities have
component quantity differences and are divided into two distinct categories,
Type I and Type II. The Type I radar tracking facilities are exemplified
by a typical H-shaped road pattern with a radar mound located at each of
the four road termini and a centrally located revetted control position.
This facility is generally square in shape and secured by a single fence with
a security building/guard post adjacent to the service road entrance. The
service road connects the facility with an adjacent support area containing
approximately six buildings.
Type I radar tracking facilities have been identified at the following
locations on the Kapustin Yar/Vladimirovka Missile Test Range.
Elton 49-15N 46-48E (Figure 2)
Gornyy Balykley 49-33N 45-02E (Figure 3)
Pallasovka 50-04N 46-14E (Figure 4)
Site G-2 48-24N 46-14E (Figure 5)
Type II radar tracking facilities, appear more complex and elaborate
in design than the Type I. The Type II facilities contain six mounded
radar positions grouped at one end of a rectangular double fenced area
with a centrally located revetted control position; three mounded radar
positions each with a large revetted control position; and three possible
instrumentation positions. Each Type II facility has a support area,
containing approximately 15 buildings. These Type II facilities have
been identified at the following locations on the Kapustin Yar/Vladimirovka
Missile Test Range.
Aleksandrov Gay
50-10N
48-33E
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Kamyshin
50-03N
45-15E
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Site G-1 and G-2
48-25N
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The small scale of photography has precluded identification of
radar equipment at the ype tracking facilities. Two probable BACK NET
and four probable SIDE NET radars were initially identified at Kamyshin
Type II radar facility. These radars are not present on recent photography.
Radar identification was not possible at the other facilities. Based only
upon the one observance of these radars at Kamyshin, it is impossible to
determine if they are standard components of the Type II tracking facility,
or were used solely in a research and development program in association
with the Kapustin Yar/Vladimirovka Missile Test Range.
A total of twelve H-shaped radar tracking facilities are located in
the Gulf of Finland/Leningrad area. These facilities appear to be deployed
versions of the H-shaped facilities located on the Kapustin Yar/Vladimirovka
Missile Test Range. Eleven of the H-shaped facilities are of the Type I
configuration and the twelfth, near Kerstovo appears to'be a modified Type II
configuration. A major change noted between.the H-shaped facilities at the
Kapustin Yar/Vladimirovka Missile Test Range and those in the Gulf of Finland/
Leningrad area is the emplacement, at the latter, of two tall lattice towers,
each approximately 90 feet high, instead of the four elevated mounds.
Locations of the H-shaped radar tracking facilities observed in the
Gulf of Finland/Leningrad area are as follows:
Elisenvara
Gdov
Johvi
Kerstovo
Narva
Priozersk
Salmi
Storozhno
Tihkvin
Tolmachevo
Veskitaguse
Vyborg
61-23N 29-47E
58-44N 27-47E
59-22N 27-21E
59-28N 28-49E
59-43N 28-29E
6o-50N 30-22E
61-24N 31-51E
60-31N 32-37E
59-49N 33-32K
58-52N 29-56E
58-50N 26-47E
60-38N 28-14E
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H-shaped tracking facilities first appeared on the Kapustin Yar/Via-
dimirovka Missile Test Range from mid-1961 through spring 1962. A group
of three facilities, Johvi, Narva, and Veskitaguse, first appeared in the
Gulf of Finland area from mid-1962 through spring 1963 and construction of
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the remaining nine facilities in the Gulf of Finland area began in the
spring and summer of 1965.
USAF ONC D-3, 4th edition, May 1965 (CONFIDENTIAL)
USAF ONC E-4, 2nd edition, December 1960 (CONFIDENTIAL)
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NPIC Selected Radar Tracking Facilities, KY/VMTC and
an u o Finland Areas USSR June 1965 (TOP SECRET
CIA 149/65, H-Shaped Sites Ka ustin Yar and enin rad
rea, May 1965 (TOP SECRET
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