SOVIET MIDGET SUBMARINES

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP80-00810A002400500006-4
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• Original Classification: S
• Document Page Count: 2
• Document Creation Date: December 22, 2016
• Document Release Date: January 11, 2010
• Sequence Number: 6
• Publication Date: September 21, 1953
• Content Type: REPORT

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CENTRAL INTELLIGENCE AGENCY
INFORMATION REPORT
X94
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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Soviet Midget Submarines
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The USSR possesses about 70 midget submarines, a large portion of which are
believed to be operational.. They are based in the Baltic, the Black Sea, and
the Pacific. Because of their characteristics, each port or auxiliary ship
with a 20-ton crane could constitute a base. About 20 of these submarines are
of the exerman SEEHUND type and the rest, about 50, of a Soviet type, improved
in part on the SEEHUND type.
Following are the characteristics of the ex-German SEEHUND type of Soviet midget
submarine :
a. Size: 12 x 1.80 x 1.80 meters. 16 tons.
bo Type of propulsion: 6C) lip diesel motor; 30 hp electric motor.
e. Speed: five knots surfaced; three knots submerged.
dp Endurance: 250 miles at five knots surfaced; 60 miles at three knots sublllerged.
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:3e Following are the characteristics of the Soviet type of midget
a. Size: 12 meters. About 20 tons.
b. Type of propulsion and speed not known.
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c.
d.
Endurance: ten hours submerged at a low speed,
Size and kind of explosive: two torpedoes as in the SEEHUND type.
e.
Complement: four men*
f.
No informantion on construction materials or degaussing equipment.
g.
Fitted for towing: believed to be.
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