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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.

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“Kapustin Yar”16 pages

  • 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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ESTIMATED CHARACTERISTICS
U. S. Designation SHYSTER -SS-3
IOC Dote 1956
Maximum Range 700 N.M.
Propulsion Liquid, probably LOX/kerosine
Configuration Single Stage
Guidance Radio/menial
Accuracy 1 N.M.
Maximum Warhead Weight 3,000 Pounds
Ground Environment Rood Mobile
55-3 SURFACE-TO-SURFACE MISSILE (SHYSTER)
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