RUMANIAN AIR FORCE COMMUNICATIONS AND NAVIGATION EQUIPMENT

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
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• Document Creation Date: December 16, 2016
• Document Release Date: May 31, 2005
• Sequence Number: 2
• Publication Date: June 23, 1953
• Content Type: REPORT

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CENTRAL INTELLIGENCE AGENCY
INFORMATION REPORT
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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.B. Code, as
amended. Its transmission or revelation of its contents
to or receipt by an unauthorized person is prohibited
by law. The reproduction of this form is prohibited.
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REFERENCES
SUBJECT Rumanian Air Force Communications and
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THE SOURCE EVALUATIONS IN THIS REPORT ARE DEFINITIVE.
THE APPRAISAL OF CONTENT IS TENTATIVE.
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23 June 1953
1. There were no military communications a ui ment factories in Rumania as of March
1952, German World
War II sets were still used. New aircraft delivered from the USSR were equipped
with Soviet sets.
2. There was a grave shortage of aircraft communications sets and ground-to.-air
radio sets in the Rumanian Air Force, Spare parts for the existing German sets
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and transport unite had adequate radio communications facilities. The remainder
of the Air Force units had outmoded equipment which was continually defective.
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3. All major radio repairs in the Rumanian Air Force were handled by the 6 Commun-
ications Regiment at Bucharest/Cotroceni Airfield. This regiment was always
late in returns repaired sets. A minimum of two months elapsed before a radio
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25X1 the German-type radios the Soviets never supplied
spare parts with the equipment they delivered,
Radio Navigation
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the TU-e was equipped with a radio capaple o radio navigation to a ranze of 1000 kmj
radio
the TU-2 was gptdeviations from am signal (evidently
compass) which indicated
emitted by a
single station.
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5. Basic radio navigation in Rumania was accomplished by means of the
D/F system, using the international "Q" code for identification
signals in cW. onl the "all code was utilized
in'Rumania. there was no
organized shL iang-range radio nav ga on in use by the RumAF
and that the D/`F stations were used mostly when making a landing
approach.
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6.
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oe detector which was installed in the instrument panel and con-
sisted of a needle, which, when depressed either to the right or
left indicated whether or not the approaching craft was friendly.
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7. ail Soviet aircraft delivered to the
uman ans were supp e w h Soviet a ui ment and no ea u ipment
w
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contained in two boxes about the size of the German FUG-10 and
located, to ether with a space for the operator, to the rear of the
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v e
25X1 pilot, ..avi a oro radio operator, and v tral gunner. ofe type
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had been installed on the Heinkel Ill or the Junkers 88 duringh
World War II.
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Instal-led on umAF craft.
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The TU-2 ha a roa - ype n ere m s
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