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• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: NGA Records (Formerly NIMA)
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP78B04558A001400020004-1
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: T
• Document Page Count: 3
• Document Creation Date: December 28, 2016
• Document Release Date: February 26, 2008
• Sequence Number: 4
• Publication Date: August 31, 1966
• Content Type: CABLE

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CITE IAD : 8319.
THE FOLLOWING IS FROM THE CIA/IMAGERY ANALYSIS DIVISION:
1. ANALYSIS OF THE RADAR ASSEMBLY AND TEST AREA AT GORKIY/
SORMOVO AIRFIELD, USSR (56-19N 43-47E), FROM
AS REVEALED NEW INFORMATION REGARDING THE PROBABLE
OPERATING"MODE OF THE TRACKING/GUIDANCE RADAR ASSOCIATED WITH
THE PROBABLE LONG RANGE SAN SYSTEM. ON THE SOUTHERNMOST RADAR
AT THE ASSEMBLY LINE, AS SEEN 0
STRUCTURE APPROXIMATELY. 17 FEET DIA IS VISIBLE BELOW THE
ANTENNA UNDER CONSTRUCTION. THE CONFIGURATION OF THE VAN,
OR SUPPORTING UNIT ON WHICH THIS RING IS MOUNTED CANNOT BE
DISCERNED. AT THE SAME TIME, IN THE SUPPORT AREA ASSOCIATED
WITH THE RADAR ASSEMBLY AREA, TWO-PROBABLE STRUCTURES OR
SUPPORTING UNITS, EACH APPROXIMATELY 20 FEET SQUARE, ARE
PRESENT AND EACH HAS A RING MOUNTED ON THE ROOF.
ALSO WITHIN THIS SUPPORT AREA, PROBABLE COMPONENT PARTS OF THE
TRACKING/GUIDANCE RADAR ANTENNA ARE VISIBLE.
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2. BASED UPON THE IDENTIFICATION OF THE
RING BELOW THE ANTENNA UNDER CONSTRUCTION, IT IS BELIEVED THAT
THIS RING FUNCTIONS IN THE SUPPORT AND/OR STEERING OF THE
ANTENNA. THIS WOULD SUGGEST THAT THE ANTENNA ROTATES IN-
DEPENDENTLY FROM THE VAN, OR SUPPORTING UNIT.
3. IT IS BELIEVED THAT FURTHER*ANALYSIS AND PHOTOGRAPHIC
COVERAGE OF THE PROBABLE ANTENNA COMPONENTS OBSERVED IN THE
SUPPORT AREA MAY YIELD ADDITIONAL INFORMATION REGARDING THE
OPERATING CHARACTERISTICS OF THIS RADAR.
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