41st Missile Regiment

41-й ракетный полк

Military Unit: 14264

Activated 9.7.60 at Vypolzovo, Tver Oblast, under the 7th Missile Brigade, and from 5.61 the 7th Guards Missile Division.

1963 with 3 battalions at three sites:

• 1st Battalion - BSP-1 with 3 R-16 silos - alert duty from 11.63 (estimate)
• 2nd Battalion - BSP-11 with 2 R-16 pads - alert duty from 5.63 (estimate)
• 3rd Battalion - BSP-12 with 2 R-16 pads - alert duty from 11.2.63

In March 1964 all battalions were upgraded to regiments:

• 1st Battalion became 753rd Missile Regiment with 3 R-16 silos (site BSP-1)
• 2nd Battalion became 526th Missile Regiment with 2 R-16 pads (site BSP-11)
• 3rd Battalion remained as the 41st Missile Regiment, now with 2 R-16 pads (site BSP-12)

In 1969 the regiment stood down, and the BSP-12 site was transferred to the 753rd Missile Regiment.

The regiment went on alert duty 24.11.70 in area BRK-12, with 10 UR-100 (SS-11) silos.

Converted to the MR-UR-100U (15P016) (SS-17) missile in 1979 - alert duty from 19.11.79 with 10 silos.

The regiment stood down in 1993, and began conversion to the RT-2PM (15P158) (SS-25) missile - alert duty from 30.12.94 with 9 missiles (missiles from the 306th Missile Regiment arriving from Belorussia).

US designation 1960-1969: Yedrovo ICBM complex (Launch site B, later launch site 1). Type IIB pads.

Yedrovo Launch Site 1 (BSP-12) (57 47 58N, 33 13 46E):

US designation: 1970 - 1979 Yedrovo ICBM Complex - Launch Group T (Ten Type IIID silos):
US designation: 1979 - 1993 Yedrovo ICBM Complex - Launch Group T (Ten Type IIIH and one Type IIIX silos):

• silo 128T: 57 52 08N, 32 55 52E
• silo 129T: 57 56 43N, 33 05 40E
• silo 130T: 57 50 21N, 32 57 48E
• silo 131T: 57 47 56N, 33 00 32E
• silo 132T: 57 49 56N, 33 04 17E
• silo 133T: 57 53 03N, 33 06 50E - old control site (1970-1979)
• silo 134T: 57 55 05N, 32 59 16E
• silo 136T: 57 46 29N, 32 55 13E
• silo 137T: 57 55 34N, 33 11 06E
• silo 138T: 57 51 59N, 33 13 11E
• Launch Control Facility RR (Type III): co-located with silo 138T

Yedrovo Mobile ICBM Base 1 (RT-2PM (SS-25)) (1993-today) (57 51 47N, 33 39 06E):

No drawing.