ARMAMENT OF POLISH VESSELS

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Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): 
CIA-RDP80-00809A000600030605-7
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RIPPUB
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S
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2
Document Creation Date: 
December 22, 2016
Document Release Date: 
August 1, 2011
Sequence Number: 
605
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Publication Date: 
March 19, 1953
Content Type: 
REPORT
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Sanitized Copy Approved for Release 2011/09/14: CIA-RDP80-00809A000600030605-7 CLASSI FICATiON SECRE~ CENTRAL INTELLIGENCE AGENCY INFORMATION REPORT PLACE ACQUIRED 25X1 25X1 25X1 Following is a listing of Polish rissela with armament as indicated: Uukubv (Destroyer) Your in recoil guns 120mm capable of firing at 700 angle and can be used as antiaircraft guns. These guns are fired eloctrioaily. TWO aaunte for 1} caliber "Bofare". $bur mounts for "Orlikone". four torpedo tubes - recoil type equipped with British type 400 mm torpsdoca. xbur special catapults, two on each side of the ship for releasing depth charges. .acs generators for laying smoke screen. Jt (ftbmarins) One main 301 sie gun which was exchanged for a doviet weapon of approximately the sass caliber eight torpeee tubes IU; One main 305 mm gun one small antisirsraft gun bur torpedo tubes This vessel on also be used for laying both drifting sine and anohortd mines. OMJKA - 21UTIA - NSWA 25X1 CIAUIFICATION DATE DISTR. I"" nor 1953 Armament of Polish Vessels NO. OF PAGES 2 NO. OF ENCLS. -~--- (LISTED BELOW) SUPPLEMENT TO REPORT NO. Sanitized Copy Approved for Release 2011/09/14: CIA-RDP80-00809A000600030605-7 Sanitized Copy Approved for Release 2011/09/14: CIA-RDP80-00809A000600030605-7 a =i5 mm gun of Soviet construction which is mounted on the bow of the vessels. The antiaircraft equipment consistad of heavy antiaircraft machine puns. KACZCRY - These are so called Poles because they resemble ganders or drakes. Each of these is equipped with a 75 mm gun and water-cooled machine guns? They are also capable of laying and sweeping mines. 25X1 25X1 I Sanitized Copy Approved for Release 2011/09/14: CIA-RDP80-00809A000600030605-7