STATUS OF SOVIET MOBILE SURFACE-TO-SURFACE MISSILE

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• Document Creation Date: December 21, 2016
• Document Release Date: July 30, 2008
• Sequence Number: 42
• Publication Date: July 18, 1966
• Content Type: IM

INTELLIGENCE MEMORANDUM
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STATUS OF SOVIET MOBILE SURFACE-TO-AIR MISSILE
DIRECTORATE OF INTELLIGENCE
NGA review completed
DIA review completed
GROUP 1
Excluded from automatic
downgrading and
declassification
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CENTRAL INTELLIGENCE AGENCY
Directorate of Intelligence
18 July 1966
Summary
A new mobile surface-to-air missile system
called GANEF is apparently about to enter service
with the Soviet Ground Forces. The GANEF system's
mobility is superior to that of the air defense
missile systems presently deployed in the USSR.
Its operational use will considerably improve the
defense against air attack of large tactical tar-
gets, such as nuclear weapons facilities, rear
areas, and troop concentrations.
* Prepared by the Office of Current Intelligence
and coordinated with the Office of Research and
Reports and the Office of Scientific Intelligence.
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1. There is accumulating evidence to indicate
that the USSR's mobile surface-to-air missile system
(GANEF) is about to enter service with the Soviet
Ground Forces. It has not yet been seen in. Soviet
troop units, but crews in training are apparently
firing GANEF missiles on the Emba missile test range
and are possibly training in the operation and main-
tenance of the GANEF system at Orenburg, 200 miles
from the Emba range.
2. The GANEF appears to be designed for the
defense of large tactical targets such as nuclear
weapons facilities, rear areas, and troop and vehicle
concentrations. The Soviet armed forces newspaper
Red Star of 26 May 1966 described GANEF missiles as
"maneuverable, accurate, and reliable for the air
defense of troops." This is the most precise descrip-
tion of the system and its mission the Soviet press
has offered since the missile and its transporter
were first displayed at the Moscow May Day parade in
1964.
3. Soviet crewmen may be getting training in
handling and maintenance of the system at the Oren-
burg Antiaircraft Artillery Barracks East. Five
GANEF transporter-launchers, each mounting one mis-
sile, were seen. at the barracks
The trainees at Orenburg may include officer-
candidates from the nearby Orenburg Antiaircraft
Artillery School. The school, located in town, ap-
parently has no-outside training facilities except
the open. areas of the AAA barracks and a single SA-2
surface-to-air missile (SAM) site located near Oren-
burg. Students at the Orenburg school are logical
choices as GANEF trainees since they qualify as
military electromechanical technicians or radio
technicians upon graduation.
4. Crews in training are probably conducting
live practice firings of GANEF missiles at the Emba
missile test range. GANEF missiles have been seen
at the range and tow targets and six
IL-28 (Beagle ,jet bombers are located at the Emba
airfield.
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5. The SA-2 SAM system--currently deployed with
Soviet Ground Forces--lacks the mobility required by
ground troops. In tactical use it requires a large
caravan of support vehicles, some of which are re-
stricted to good roads and slow speeds.
6. The GANEF launcher probably can be set up
to fire in about one hour. However, the GANEF system
can apparently keep pace with the major elements of
an advancing army for reasonable periods. The mis-
siles are mounted on.a medium-tank chassis, which
serves as both transporter and launcher. The target
tracking radar also has been seen mounted on tracked
vehicles. The service vehicles may also be track
laying, enabling the entire system to travel cross-
country. The use of storable fuel for the GANEF
missile's ramjet engine should also facilitate
logistics.
7. The radar a ui ment
suggests that the GANEF system uses a
van-mounted early-warning radar for target acquisi-
tion. Although this radar cannot be moved as easily
as the other vehicles of the system, it can probably
be set up several miles from the launch site and
moved less frequently without affecting the system's
effectiveness.
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9. The GANEF missile should have the in.flight
maneuverability necessary to hit its most 1ikelV
target--incoming tactical aircraft.
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