518th Missile Regiment

518-й ракетный полк

Military Unit: 12469

Activated 12.66 in Yoshkar-Ola, Mariyskaya ASSR, under the 14th Missile Division.

The regiment went on alert duty 1.8.70 with 10 RT-2 (SS-13) silos in area BRK-2.

The regiment stood down 1976, and converted to the RT-2P missile - alert duty from 8.10.77.

Disbanded 1993.

US designation 1970-1993: Yoshkar-Ola ICBM complex (Launch Group B) [Ten Type IIIE and one Type IIIX silos]:

• LCF B: 56 49 18N, 48 36 03E
• silo 13B: 56 40 09N, 48 28 32E
• silo 17B: 56 42 35N, 48 28 07E
• silo 23B: 56 50 25N, 48 40 04E
• silo 24B: 56 42 11N, 48 35 33E
• silo 25B: 56 45 25N, 48 45 42E
• silo 27B: 56 45 49N, 48 27 44E
• silo 28B: 56 52 41N, 48 34 25E
• silo 30B: 56 51 22N, 48 25 36E
• silo 31B: 56 44 25N, 48 42 11E
• silo 32B: 56 48 28N, 48 20 35E