INFORMATION ON MISSILE GUIDANCE

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• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP80-00810A000100610011-4
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: S
• Document Page Count: 3
• Document Creation Date: December 22, 2016
• Document Release Date: July 29, 2009
• Sequence Number: 11
• Publication Date: March 20, 1953
• Content Type: REPORT

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CENTRAL INTELLIGENCE AGENCY
INFORMATION REPORT
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SECURITY INFORMATION
COUNTRY
USSR/Germany
Information on Missile Guidance
This Document contains information affecting the Na-
tional Defense of the United States, within the mean-
ing of Title 18, sections 793 and 794, of the U.S. Code, as
amended. Its transmission or revelation of its contents
to or receipt by an unauthorized person is prohibited
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The television equipment was the German "Tonne All equipment. It was to be
used as a viewing head for remotely controlling the path of the falling bomb.
The wave length used was about 10 meters. The intention was that the proximity
fuse Iipox1I should detonate at a distance of 20 meters from the target.
In Gema/Koepenick 100 Strasbourg receivers were inspected and despatched to the
USSR, and there were several thousand more stored in Bleicherode. The ones
tested at Gems were sent to the USSR these were distributed
between Novaya and other institutes. The receivers were merely rendered service-
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and no modifications were made. At this time the Germans were iven as
an additional task, the job of writing a critical comparison of the Strasbour
and Cmlmaarreceivers- r
USAF review completed.
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No official use was given for the 1Y generator, but the
Germans thought it might be, intended -for use as remote
control equipment.
details of the Strasbourg test
specifics ons :
Sensitivity 6 micro-volts
Discrimination + -. 22 kc.
Pass-Band 32 kc. '
In the output circuits were several LP rectifiers, each
rectifier dealing with one frequency.
no new Strasbourg receivers were built at.
Zavod 885 since very adequate stooks were already avail-!-.able.
In any case the USSR ceramic
techniques were no gooc enough.
Moser's experiments on th4
stabilization of vane flutter. No great importance appeared
to be attached to this problem..
Faulstich did not adopt a new approach, but added to the
original tracking mechanism. In 1948 a group of Soviet
officers visited Monina and told the Germans that they
were making a copy of the American SCR-584. Certain parts
of the Monino SCR-584 were taken Away at this time for
copying. Faulstich had available an SCR-584 with the
automatic tracking feature for his development work..
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The use of the Strasbourg-Kiel system was not contemplated, ox e . e
technique of target illumination had begin decided a apon.
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