September 19, 2012
Glowing UFO filmed over Priozersk, Kazakhstan 18-Sep-2012
UFO sightings 2012 - This strange UFO activity was seen and recorded in the sky above Priozersk in Kazakhstan on Tuesday, 18th September 2012.
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Sary-Shagan
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LOCATION: Near Lake Balkhash, about 1,600 km from Russia's Kapustin Yar ballistic missile test site
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http://www.nti.org/media/images/maps/map_0000s_0024_Kazakhstan.jpg?_=1316706484SIZE: This site has a length of 480 km, which allows long-range testing
FACILITY STATUS: Non-operational
The primary function of Sary-Shagan is testing of anti-ballistic missile (ABM) systems.
The Sary-Shagan test site conducts work on strategic anti-aircraft defense, anti-ballistic missile defense, and anti-satellite systems. Established in 1956, Sary-Shagan was a natural choice for a test site for anti-ballistic missile (ABM) systems. It is located about 1,600 km from Russia's Kapustin Yar ballistic missile test site and therefore provides coverage of the impact area for missiles launched from there.[1,2,3] It is the only site where Russian tests of ABM systems are allowed under the 1972 ABM Treaty.[4] Sary-Shagan has near ideal conditions for testing. The weather is sunny most of the year. The site has a length of 480km, which allows long-range testing. Sary-Shagan is equipped with Kazakhstani-designed MR-9 and Baloban target missiles.[5] In addition to testing grounds, Sary-Shagan included facilities at the nearby town of Priozersk. Some facilities at Sary-Shagan have been leased to Russia, while other facilities have been transferred to the Kazakhstani National Center for Radioelectronics and Communications.[6] Kazakhstan is planning to increase cooperation with Russia and other former Soviet republics on leasing Sary-Shagan facilities. According to the Head of Kazakhstani General Staff Alibek Kasymov, the money obtained from leasing Sary-Shagan will be spent primarily for upgrading the test site itself. The second priority is financing the town of Priozersk.[5] A series of missile tests were conducted at the Sary-Shagan and Kapustin Yar test sites in 1961-1962. During these tests, missiles were launched from Kapustin Yar into the impact area in conjunction with ballistic missile defense at Sary-Shagan.[2,3] Jane's Strategic Weapons Systems indicated that in 1961, a SH-01 ‘Galosh' interceptor system at Sary-Shagan hit an incoming SS-4 ‘Sandel' warhead traveling in excess of 3 km/s.[1] Sary-Shagan was also a major Soviet test facility for directed energy weapons (DEW), particularly laser weapons.[7]
Sources:
[1] Duncan Lennox, ed., Jane's Strategic Weapons Systems, 1996, Issue 18, May 1995.
[2] "Known Nuclear Tests Worldwide, 1945-1993," The Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists, May-June 1994, p. 62.
[3] Sayre Stevens, "The Soviet BMD Program," Ballistic Missile Defense, Ashton B. Carter and David N. Schwartz editors, The Brookings Institution, 1984, pp. 191-197.
[4] Sergey Sokut, "Udarom na udar," Nezavisimoye voyennoye obozreniye, No. 44, November 1999, pp. 1,4; in WPS Oborona i bezopasnost, No. 135, 17 November 1999.
[5]"Kazakhstan nameren kommertsializirovat poligon Saryshagan," Panorama, No. 34, September 2001.{entered 10/15/01 DK}
[6] Merhat Sharipzhan, "Kazakh-Russian Military Cooperation," NISNP E-mail correspondence, 1 November 1996.
[7] Duncan Lennox, ed., Jane's Strategic Weapons Systems, 1996, Issue 20, January 1996.
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Overview Last updated: August, 2012
Kazakhstan inherited nuclear-tipped missiles, a nuclear weapon test site, and biological and chemical weapon production facilities when the Soviet Union collapsed. In its first decade of independence, Kazakhstan dismantled and destroyed Soviet weapons systems and facilities left on its territory, and signed major international nonproliferation treaties.
Nuclear
When the Soviet Union collapsed in December 1991, Kazakhstan inherited 1,410 nuclear warheads and the Semipalatinsk nuclear weapon test site. By April 1995 Kazakhstan had repatriated its nuclear warhead inventory back to Russia, destroying the nuclear testing infrastructure at Semipalatinsk by July 2000. However, weapons-grade nuclear material remains in Kazakhstan, including three metric tons of plutonium at a shutdown reactor in western Kazakhstan and small amounts of highly enriched uranium (HEU) at two nuclear research institutes. Approximately 600 kilograms of weapons-grade HEU was removed to the United States from the Ulba Metallurgy Plant in 1994 under a joint U.S.-Kazakhstani operation known as Project Sapphire. Kazakhstan is a party to START-I, the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty (NPT), and the Comprehensive Test Ban Treaty (CTBT). It signed an Additional Protocol with the International Atomic Energy Agency in February 2004 and is a member of the Nuclear Suppliers Group. The foreign ministers of the five Central Asian States — Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan, Turkmenistan, and Uzbekistan — signed a treaty establishing a Central Asian Nuclear Weapon Free Zone (CANWFZ) on 8 September 2006. On 19 February 2007, Kazakhstani President Nazarbayev signed a law approving the nation's Additional Protocol to its nuclear safeguards agreement with the International Atomic Energy Agency.
Biological
Kazakhstan is home to a significant number of anti-plague facilities, that were part of the Soviet biological warfare (BW) effort. In June 2007, Kazakhstan acceded to the Biological Toxin and Weapons Convention (BWC). Kazakh President Nazarbayev has declared Kazakhstan's commitment to biological weapons nonproliferation. However, the state is not yet a member of the Australia Group.
In 1993, Kazakhstan created a civilian body, the National Center for Biotechnology, to oversee the administration of most of the former BW facilities in Kazakhstan. These facilities include the following: Biomedpreparat, a large-scale biological production facility located in Stepnogorsk; the Scientific Research Agricultural Institute (SRAI) at Otar, which specializes in crop and livestock diseases; and Biokombinat, a small mobilization production facility located in Almaty, which now produces vaccines. The Kazakh Scientific Center for Quarantine and Zoonotic Infections (KSCQZI) (formerly known as the Central Asian Anti-Plague Research Institute) was also involved in the Soviet defensive BW system and is now under the jurisdiction of the Kazakh Ministry of Health. Both KSCQZI and SRAI house extensive collections of virulent strains of human, animal, and plant pathogens. Under the Cooperative Threat Reduction (CTR) program, Biomedpreparat has been dismantled and safety and security have been upgraded at KSCQZI and SRAI. In December 2004, the United States and Kazakhstan signed an amendment to a bilateral agreement that will expand cooperation against the threat of bioterrorism through the Nunn-Lugar Cooperative Threat Reduction Program. The goal of U.S.-Kazakhstan cooperation in this area is to counter the threat of bioterrorism and prevent proliferation of biological weapons technology, pathogens, and expertise at their source.
Chemical
Kazakhstan inherited one known chemical weapons production plant in the city of Pavlodar. This plant probably was designed to replace aging plants in Volgograd and Novocheboksarsk (Russia) for the production of the binary agent "novichok." The plant's construction was halted in 1987, after the Soviet Union became involved in CWC-related negotiations, so it never produced any chemical warfare agents. Kazakhstan joined the CWC in March 2000. However, Kazakhstan submitted a nil declaration, leaving out the Pavlodar facility.
Missile
Kazakhstan inherited 104 SS-18 intercontinental ballistic missiles (ICBMs) from the Soviet missile complex. All ICBMs were transferred to Russia for dismantlement by September 1996 and missile silos and silo structures were destroyed under the U.S. Department of Defense Cooperative Threat Reduction (CTR) program by September 1999. Gidromash, an Almaty-based Soviet-era producer of submarine-launched missiles, was converted to a civilian commercial enterprise under CTR's Industrial Partnerships Program.
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Priozersk,_KazakhstanPriozersk (Kazakh: Приозёрск, Priozersk; Russian: Приозёрск, Priozersk) is a closed city at Lake Balkhash, Kazakhstan. It serves as the administrative center of Sary Shagan anti-ballistic missile testing site.
Priozersk is located in Karagandy Province (central Kazakhstan), approximately 620 kilometers to the south-east of the Karaganda and 747 kilometers from Astana. The Cambala Airport lies in the suburbs.
The total population is 13,457. By nationality, the city is 46% Russian, 39% Kazakh, 6% Ukrainian, and 9% other. The town is closed for visiting by foreign citizens.
[edit]History
Central Square in Priozersk
Tens of thousands of workers and hundreds of missile experts and army officers arrived after the Soviet government decided to establish a secret military base in the Kazakh Steppe. This testing site for the soviet missile defense system was one of such centers, which had led to construction of anti-ballistic missiles and to attain parity in the arms race between the USSR and USA.
After the Soviet Union collapse, the Russian Federation agreed with Kazakhstan to lease some military units for 50 years. The Russian Army continues to use the base at Priozersk as the testing site for improving anti-ballistic and anti-aircraft defense systems.