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This is National Intelligence Estimate 11-5-61, Soviet Technical Capabilities in Guided Missiles and Space Vehicles. It was submitted by the Director of Central Intelligence and concurred in by the United States Intelligence Board on 25 April 1961. The estimate assesses Soviet surface-to-air, antimissile, air-to-air, air-to-surface, ballistic, ICBM, naval and space programs. It concludes that the first Soviet ICBM unit was probably operational around 1 January 1960. It also says there is no evidence the Soviets are developing offensive space weapons. It contains no UFO material.

  • p. 5 …Kapustin Yar-Vladimirovka Missile Test Center 23 23. Training Launch Area, Complex G, Kapustin Yar 23…
  • p. 6 …The USSR now has two major missile test ranges at Kapustin Yar/Vladimirovka and Tyuratam, an…
  • p. 15 …in their use are located at the Kapustin Yar missile test range (see Figures 1 and…
  • p. 16 …Deployment of this system was delayed until prototype launching facilities were completed at Kapustin Yar and…
  • p. 18 …Research and development work for this purpose may be underway at Sary Shagan or Kapustin Yar…
  • p. 19 …SURFACE-TO-AIR MISSILE COMPLEX AT KAPUSTIN YAR Figure 2 40.6 IliTa I ...................................... •011•1…
  • p. 32 …impact area of the Kapustin Yar ballistic missile test range. Close to the impact area are…
  • p. 44 …Figure 22) which is adjacent to the Kapustin Yar rangehead. Research and development on large aerody…
  • p. 46 …Missiles known to have been developed or to be under develop- ment at Kapustin Yar include…
  • p. 47 …2 type missiles and initiated firings at Kapustin Yar in 1947. This missile program appears to…
  • p. 48 …missile from an area other than the Kapustin Yar missile test range, and indicates that it…
  • p. 50 …KAPUSTIN YAR-VLADIMIROVKA MISSILE TEST CENTER 0010110.1711 Wit 114•1141041011 int 141Al 1•11 14…
  • p. 51 …This photograph of a troop training area at the Kapustin Yar missile test range was taken…
  • p. 66 …range at Kapustin Yar for some years, and we believe that a missile of this range…
  • p. 67 …We would expect that this missile (SS-N-5) would be tested at Kapustin Yar, that…
  • p. 79 …Since 1954, about 25 vertical firings have been detected at the Kapustin Yar range. According to…
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1. USSR: Missile Test Ranges 8
2. Surface-to-Air Missile Complex at Kapustin Yar 12
3. Surface-to-Air Guided Missile Sites in the Moscow Area 12
4. Typical SA-1 Guided Missile Site in the Moscow Area 12
5. SA-1 Missile System (including V-301 missile) 12
6. USSR: Oblique Drawing of the Istra Guided Missile Support 12
Facility
7. Typical SA-2 Missile System Site (Stalingrad, USSR) 12
8. Typical SA-2 Missile System Equipment Layout (Glau, East 12
Germany)
9. Fruit Set Fire Control Radar 12
10. Spoon Rest Acquisition Radar 12
11. SA-2 Missile System (including Guideline Missile) 12
12. Field Type SA-2 Support Facility (Ladeburg, East Germany) 12
13. Permanent SA-2 Support Facility Layout (Kuybyshev, USSR) 12
14. Launch Sites for SA-3 Missile System (Kapustin Yar Missile 12
Test Range)
15. Sary Sha:gan Antimissile Defense Test Center 16
16. 500 Foot Antenna, Sary Shagan Radar Site No. 2 16
17. 900 Foot Building, Sary Shagan Radar Site No. 1 16
18. 54 Foot Diameter Dish, Sary Shagan Instrumentation Sites 16
Nos. 3 and 10
19. 110 Foot Dome, Sary Shagan Instrumentation Site No. 6 16
20. Missile Launch Complex B, Sary Shagan 16
21. Kamchatka Peninsula ICBM Impact Area 16
22. Kapustin Yar-Vladimirovka Missile Test Center 23
23. Training Launch Area, Complex G, Kapustin Yar 23
24. SS-1 Surface-to-Surface Missile (SCUD) 23
25. SS-3 Surface-to-Surface Missile (SHYSTER) 23
26. SS-4 Surface-to-Surface Missile 23
27. Tyuratam Missile Launching Complex 30
28. Launch Area A, Tyuratam 30
29. Possible Configuration of Completed Launch Area C, 30
Tyuratam
30. Krupnyy and Kildin Class DDG's 33
31. Osa and Komar Class PG's 33
32. Modified "Z" Class Submarine 33
33. Soviet "G" Class Submarine 33
34. Early Soviet Earth Satellites 45
35. Soviet Lunar Probes 45
36. Sputnik V Escape Capsule 45
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