THE T-49 TANK

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP82-00046R000200290012-5
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: S
• Document Page Count: 4
• Document Creation Date: December 22, 2016
• Document Release Date: August 4, 2009
• Sequence Number: 12
• Publication Date: October 16, 1953
• Content Type: REPORT

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S E C R E T
SECURITY INFORMATION
COUNTRY Czechoslovakia
DATE DISTR. 16 Oc,T 3
SUB3ECT The T-49 Tank NO.OF PAGES 2
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THIS IS UNEVALUATED INFORMATION
1. There were nine T-49 tanks in the tank battalion of the 103rd'
Meez. Regt. 9 3rd Tank. Div.,, at Mlada, near Milovice . 50414,
E 14-547. The T-49 tank was a version of the Soviet T-34 tank
with t "he following improvements
a. The turret has a lower silhouette brought about through rede-
sign to create an oblong-turtle-shaped turret (oast) similar
in deei n to the JS.3 turret. It has 's smooth top (with-no
d.
eupole,e) with a 12.9 mm. heavy machine gone in front of the
right ihateh. The machine gun is independently traversed and
is used for AA and ground fire. Two periscopes are employed
through the top of the turretp one front and left of center
and the other rear of center and left. the gun 25X1
is from 85 to 120 mm. and has no muzzle brake. T e turret is
1.5 cm., thicker than that of the T-'34.
The hull has a 12.7 mm, machine gun in a ball mount on the
right front of the glecie plate similar to the T-34 in place
tea srentl ctmtain s no hatch
The trankC hs,s Christie type
suspension consisting of sine large bogie wheels. The hull,has
approxi -tely a-one-halt
inch increase in armor on the Alacis
late.
The hall has receiV
redesigning in the slope
of armor and po i 2.
in the placemen
t of armor. The hull dimensions
are somewhat larger than
those of the T-34.
the track on
the T?4 was an
the T-3 type tracks
The engine of the T-49 is
diesel and air-coaled
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2. In January' 1953, in a speech at a conference of officers from' the
103rd Metz. Regt., a Sr. Lt. CADRIK (fnu), CO of the Tank'Bn.,
103rd'Mecz Regt., said that the T-49 tank was being produced in
Czechoslovak factories. He stated: that the engine was being made
in the Skoda Works in Pilsen and that other parts were being made
in the Skoda Works in Mlada Boleslav and in an arms lant (which
he did not identify) in Strakonice /N 49-16, E 13-5g. He said
that the turrets were being produced at the CKD (Cesko-Moravska
kolben danek) Works in Prague. CADRIK mentioned the-T-49 as an
example of the increasing recognition. being accorded Czechoslovak
workmanship, saying that th was streamlined in comparison
with the Soviet T-34, whit was very crudely made.
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