Special weapons warehouse
Special weapons cache ( Russian склад боеприпасов особого насначения , including: склад особых боеприпасов ), short SWL , were hardened depots for nuclear weapons of any kind of the Group of Soviet Forces in Germany or Western Group of Forces (GSSD / WGT) on the territory of the former GDR . They were created from 1967.
As a rule, special weapons stores consisted of several reinforced concrete bunkers with additional earthworks. They were subject to strictest secrecy regulations, were hardened against the effects of weapons and also specially secured in terms of personnel. The following basic variants were possible:
- Independent object to supply several different users, example: SWL Himmelpfort
- Disguised as a logistics facility, example: SWL Finsterwalde under the legend 2952. Repair technical base of the air force (2952 RTB WWS),
- Partial property within a WGT property, example: military airfield 296. JaboFlgReg with SWL Großenhain
- Part of the base of operations of a missile unit, for example SWL Wokuhl , 152. GRBrig
They were affiliated to the troop administration and the supply system of the WGS; operationally, however, they were subordinate to the secret service KGB , to which the guards and security personnel belonged, and were therefore outside the command and control of the WGT commander-in-chief . The withdrawal to the USSR / Russian Federation was completed by June 1991 at the latest.
- Possible components of the project variants granite or basalt
- Storage bunker over one or two floors, hermetically sealed and secured with a steel pressure door, emergency access, floor mounting for storage containers, predetermined breaking point for emergency access after the effects of weapons
- Loading bunker / transshipment bunker with crane system
- Vehicle entrance with a security lock
- Guard bunker
- Technical zone with emergency power system, filter ventilation system, power supply
- Inner fence made of vertically rammed, slotted sheet steel (custom-made for fastening flight areas on field airfields) as a privacy screen and against the effects of infantry weapons
- at least one outer barbed wire fence
- Other facilities, such as IT systems, accommodation buildings, boiler houses, etc.
In addition to the special weapons storage facilities, there were also nuclear weapons storage facilities that were directly subordinate to the WGT's commander in chief and usually belonged to WGT properties as sub-objects. In the withdrawal negotiations on the German side, this sometimes led to misunderstandings regarding responsibilities, figures and withdrawal dates.
Locations
The individual locations were set up within reach of the potential launch vehicles, for example the 296th Fighter Bombing Regiment (SWL Grossenhain) and the 3rd and 5th Army of the NVA . The overview below contains an incomplete overview of SWL .
| image | designation | Today's district | Today's state | comment |
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Special weapons store fire | Dahme-Spreewald | BB | Brand Airfield |
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Finsterwalde special weapons warehouse | Elbe Elster | BB | Lausitz airfield Finsterwalde / Schacksdorf |
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Grossenhain special weapons warehouse | Meissen | SN | Grossenhain Airfield |
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Special weapons camp Himmelpfort also: Lychen II |
Oberhavel | BB | 1968–1990, nuclear warheads |
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Special weapons store Stolzenhain also: Special weapons store Linda |
Elbe Elster | BB | 1968–1990, nuclear warheads |
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Vogelsang special weapons warehouse | Oberhavel | BB | nuclear warheads, military town 13, GSSD location Vogelsang |
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Wokuhl special weapons warehouse | Mecklenburg Lake District | MV | 1983–1989, nuclear warheads, sub-object Wokuhl base of operations 152nd Guards Missile Brigade |
See also
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b Dietrich Schröder: Secret nuclear weapons depots in forests. In: Märkische online newspaper . February 8, 2019, accessed April 26, 2020 .