50th Missile Brigade

50-я ракетная бригада

Military Unit: 14353

Activated 1970(?) in Shuya, Ivanovo Oblast, as a mobilisation unit.

A mobilisation unit would have very few men attached in peacetime, but would be fully equipped.

Organisation:

• 000 independent Missile Battalion (mobilisation)
• 000 independent Missile Battalion (mobilisation)
• 000 independent Missile Battalion (mobilisation)
• Technical Battery (mobilisation)

The brigade was co-located with a regular unit - the 95th Missile Brigade.

Probably became a regular unit after 1992.

Disbanded 2001.

Headquarters:

• Shuya, Ivanovo Oblast, 1970 - 2001 [56 50 29N, 41 22 56E] [US designation: Shuya Army Barracks East AL 1]

Equipment:

• 9K72 missiles (SS-1b/c Scud), 1970 - 1997 [1990 with 12 launch vehicles]
• 9K79 Tochka missiles (SS-21), 1997 - 2001

Subordination:

• 13th Guards Army Corps, 1970 - 1993
• 22nd Guards Combined Arms Army, 1993 - 2001