MISSION 1109-2, SSM LAUNCH SITE WUCHAI, CHINA

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• Document Creation Date: January 4, 2017
• Sequence Number: 5
• Publication Date: March 30, 1970
• Content Type: REPORT

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REFERENCE T0: MISSION 1109-2, SSM LAUNCH SITE
WUCHAI, CHINA
1. SIGNIFICANCE: A SURFACE-TO-SURFACE MISSILE (SSM) LAUNCH SITE
2. LOCATION: APPROXIMATELY 225 NM SW OF PEKING AND APPROXIMATELY
600 NM EAST OF THE SHUANGCHENGTZU MISSILE TEST
3. R~~: LAUNCH PADS Al AND A2 AT THE SCTMTC APPEARED TO
IS IDENTIFIED NEAR WUCHAI, CHINA,
CENTER (SCTMTC), CHINA,
BE COMPLETE AND OPERATIONAL WHEN FIRST OBSERVED
IN AUGUST 1961, AS EVIDENCED BY THE MRBM-TYPE
MISSILE EXERCISES AND MISSILE-ASSOCIATED EQUIPMENT
OBSERVED ON PAD Al, IT PROBABLY HAS BEE[V USED
FOR THE MAJORITY OF MISSILE FIRINGS FROM THE
SHUANGCHENGTZU RANGEHEAD, PAD A2, ON THE OTHER
HAND, APPEARS TO BE USED MAINLY AS A PARKING
STAND FOR VEHICLES AND EQUIPMENT,
LAUNCH COMPLEX D IS APPARENTLY A "FIELD" OR
STRIPPED VERSION OF THE LAUNCH PADS AT COMPLEX A,
THE COMPLEX WAS CONSTRUCTED RAPIDLY, POSSIBLY IN
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AUTOMATIC DOWNGRADING
AND DECLASSIFICATION
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LESS THAN THREE MONTHS, IT WAS NOT PRESENT IIV
JUTE 1966, THE FIRST EVIDENCE OF CONSTRUCTION WAS
OBSERVED IN JULY 1966, AND IT WAS CONFIRMED AS
COMPLETE IN OCTOBER 1966
~+. COLLATERAL; NONE,
5. FIRST IDENTIFICATION: THIS MISSION,
6. NEGATION DATE: NONE
7, SUBSEQUENT COVERAGE: NONE
8. DIMEIVSIONS~
SPECIFICATIONS: LAUNCH PAD -- ~+0 METERS SQUARE (131 FEET) (APPROXIMATELY)
LARGE EXCAVATION -- 183 X 213 METERS (600 X 700
FEET) (APPROXIMATELY)
9, MISSION READOUT: ASURFACE-TO-SURFACE MISSILE LAUNCH SITE IS IDENTIFIED NEAR
WUCHAI, CHINA, ON PHOTOGRAPHY THE SITE IS APPROXIMATELY 25X1
225 NM SOUTHWEST OF PEKING AND APPROXIMATELY 600 NM EAST OF THE SHUANGCHENGTZU
MISSILE TEST CENTER (SCTMTC), IT CONSISTS OF A LAUNCH PAD APPROXIMATELY 40
METERS (131 FEET) ON A SIDE, THREE VEHICLE REVETMENTS, AND A SMALL SUPPORT AREA
WITH AT LEAST FOUR STRUCTURES, THE PAD IS SERVED BY A LOOP ROAD WHICH CUTS
DIAGONALLY ACROSS IT,
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THE SITE IS SIMILAR IlV APPEARANCE TO LAUNCH COMPLEXES A AND D AT SCTMI'C,
THE SIMILARITIES CONSIST OF THE LOOP ROAD PATTERN SERVING THE PAD, AND THE
POSITIONING IN RELATIONSHIP TO THE PAD OF THE TWO SMALL REVETMENTS AND THE ONE
LARGE REVETMENT, IN ADDITION, THE ORIENTATION OF THE PAD IS THE SAME AS THE
PADS AT LAUNCH COMPT,FXFS A AND D,
PRELIl~IINARY GRADING FOR THE PAD WAS PRESENT I1V AUGUST 1967,
OTHER CONSTRUCTION IN THE AREA OF THE SITE INCLUDES A LARGE EXCAVATION
183 BY 213 METERS (600 BY 700 FEET 0.5 NM NORTH OF THE LAUNCH PAD, AND AN
AREA. OF UNIDENTIFIED EXCAVATING AND 'TRACK ACTIVITY 2,5 NM NORTH-NORTHWEST OF THE
PAD, IN ADDITION, A RAIL SPUR, 35 NM LONG, IS UNDER CONSTRUCTION FROM NINGWU
ON THE TAIYUAN-PAOTOL~ RAILROAD, THE BID FOR THIS SPUR HAS NOW BEEN PREPARID TO
WITHIN 5 NM OF THE LAUNCH SITE, THIS SPUR HAS BEEN UNDER CONSTRUCTION SINCE
FEBRUARY 1969, AN AIRFIELD UNDER CONSTRUCTION (WUCHAI NORTH IS LOCATED
APPROXIMATELY 15 NM NORTH-NORTHEAST OF THE SITE, IT HAS AN 8,900- BY 150-FOOT
RUNWAY ORIENTED NNW~SSE, CONSTRUCTION BEGAN ABOUT MARCH 1969,
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