1. CONGRESS OF MILITARY SPECIALISTS 2. NEW HUNGARIAN WEAPONS

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• Document Creation Date: December 22, 2016
• Document Release Date: April 28, 2009
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• Publication Date: April 30, 1954
• Content Type: REPORT

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1. Congress of Military Specialists
2, New Hungarian Weapons
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DATE DISTR. 30 April 1954
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In August 1953, a conference of military designers and specialists took
place in Budapest. It was attended by military specialists from the
Satellites and the USSR. The meetings were held in the Hungarian Armyts
Institute for Military Technology in the Zalka MAtf Barracks, the former
Count Hadik Barracks.
b. The_ participants were put up in the villas which are reserved for the
lost distinguished foreign visitors and which are situated on M&tyas
Kiraly Ut.
co The conferences lasted two weeks. The participants visited the testing
range of the Hungarian Institute for Military Technology in Kesel and
the drk6ny and Hajmisk$r artillery ranges.
d. The Hungarian military specialists demonstrated the following weapons:
a 160 mm. rocket launcher, a 110 mm. antitank gun, a new assault gun,
and an improved and simplified model of the Kiraly submachine gun.
e. The Rumanian military specialists reported on their experiments with
remote-control missiles and the Czech armament technicians reported on
their eiperiments with light-armored-cars.
f. It is said, that such conferences will be held annually.
2... Yew Hungari~ eanorns,.
The following has been learned of the weapons which were demonstrated at
the conference.
The 160 mm. rocket launcher, which had its trial firing at the Kecel
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traverse artillery , range, ismormr t~,eed on a sate?:?1illar tractor. The
projector is 360o. The barrels of the rocket projectors
are placed on top of each other in three rows of eight barrels each. One
innovation in this rocket launcher is that it will also fire a single
rocket from each barrel. It is also possible to fire only one row of eight
barrels. The weight of one rocket is 40 kg? and the maximum range of the
rocket launcher is 12,000 m, The caterpillar tractor for the rocket launcher
is manufactured in the Red Star Tractor Factory in Budapest (formerly 11ofher
rind Schrantz), while the rocket projector is mass-produced in the M&ty s
Rakosi Works.
b. The 110 mm. recoilless anti-tank weapon is a rocket-type gun. It fires so-
called rocket grenades with low muzzle-velocity and is built according to the
so-called hollow projectile system. The anti-tank gun is mass-produced at the
Azsia (Asia) enterprise of the DidsgAr Steel Works,
c. The plans for the two models described above have been developed by Lieutenant
Colonel Inrre KUC}IER : a Military Engineer. KUCHERas c