APPEARANCE OF A NEW SOVIET GUN

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP80-00810A006700280009-2
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: S
• Document Page Count: 1
• Document Creation Date: December 21, 2016
• Document Release Date: July 24, 2008
• Sequence Number: 9
• Publication Date: April 27, 1955
• Content Type: REPORT

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CENTRAL INTELLIGENCE AGENCY
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SUBJECT Appearance of a New Soviet Gun
REPORT
DATE DISTR.
NO. OF PAGES 1
DATE OF INFO.
DATE ACQUIRED
REQUIREMENT NO.
REFERENCES
27 April 1955
SOURCE EVALUATIONS ARE DEFINITIVE. APPRAISAL OF CONTENT IS TENTATIVE.
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six new heavy guns loaded on RRY cars arrived at the
Wildpark railroad station from Frankfurt/Oder. Two of the guns and an
excort detail were dispatched to Stendal while the other four were unloaded
at Wildpark, presumably at night*
the following material was entrained
in Wildpark r shipment towara a nsleben: two of the guns which
had arrived [fo _] three prime movers, one workshop truck, one
generator,, four trucks with trailers, one field kitchen, one boxcar load
of ammunition and two boxcars with approximately 30 soldiers.
The gun was described as having the following characteristics:
Caliber: 150 mm
Barrel: 10 meters long; at the time of observation the barrel was retracted
to about half the length of the gun-trail crosspieces. The gun
has a muzzle brake and an unusually heavy breech block.
Carriage: Single heavy pneumatic tires and pneumatic-tire limber wheels.
Shield: Similar to that of the 100 mm AT gun,
large firing range at Salcnau.
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Comment: The guns may be of the new 122 mm model. The two artillery 25X1
pieces may have been dispatched to Neuhaldensleben for zeroing-in at the
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