98th Missile Brigade

98-я ракетный бригада

Military Unit: 14332

Activated 5.12.69 at the Baikonur Test Range (5th NIIP), from the 39th independent Engineering & Test Unit.

Initially under the Baikonur Test Range, and from 1964 the 31st Missile Army.

Organisation 1971:

• 794th Missile Regiment (Baikonur Test Range) with 6 R-36-O silos
• 157th Missile Regiment (Baikonur Test Range) with 6 R-36-O silos
• 353rd Missile Regiment (Baikonur Test Range) with 6 R-36-O silos

The silos was to have been dismantled due to the SALT treaty in 1979, but the brigade was instead renamed, Administration of independent Engineering & Test Units, now with (and again under the Baikonur Test Range):

• 230th independent Engineering & Test Unit (Baikonur Test Range) with 6 R-36-O silos
• 231st independent Engineering & Test Unit (Baikonur Test Range) with 6 R-36-O silos
• 232nd independent Engineering & Test Unit (Baikonur Test Range) with 6 R-36-O silos

The regiments stood down 1982/83, and the silos was destroyed in May 1984.

Disbanded 1984.

Support units:

• 914th Repair-Technical Base
• 0000 Technical Missile Base
• 000 independent communications battalion

Brigade coordinates:

• Brigade Headquarters - site 71 (45 59 12N, 63 08 26E)
• FOBS Assembly and Technical Support Area - site 37 (45 52 48N, 63 26 38E)
• FOBS Launch Test Area - site 67 (45 59 20N, 63 42 21E) - with two silos
• For regimental HQ and silos, see the individual regiments