 In early 1959, three years before the Cuban Missile Crisis, the site was equipped with six R-5 "Pobeda" nuclear missiles, capable of launching from a mobile launcher from one of four tennis-court-sized sites capable of handling the larger R-12 "Dvina".Similar sites were set up at Vogelsang, Zehdenick and Lychen (1xpad).After the withdrawal of the missiles in September 1959, the site returned to its original purpose as an army base.