CZECH INFANTRY WEAPONS

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• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP82-00047R000100260008-3
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• Original Classification: S
• Document Page Count: 4
• Document Creation Date: December 23, 2016
• Document Release Date: April 17, 2013
• Sequence Number: 8
• Publication Date: March 4, 1952
• Content Type: REPORT

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CENTRAL INTELLIGENCE AGENCY
INFORMATION REPORT
COUNTRY Czechoslovakia
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Czech Infantry .4eapons
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THIS DOCuMENT CONTAINS INFORMATION AFFECTING THE NATIONAL DEFENSE
OF THE uNITED STATES, WITHIN THE MEANING OF TITLE 18, SECTIONS 793
AND 794, OF THE U.S. COO CI AS AMENDED. ITS TRANSMISSION OR RENE.
LOTION OF ITS CONTENTS TO OR RECEIPT By AN UNAUTHORIZED PERSON IS
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Soviet Infantry.weapons or ammunition
manufactured in Czechoslovakia. The potential for such
manufacture does exist at the Skoda cirks and. ueska.c,urojovka
(Czech armament) plants, but that these plants are
producing Soviet weapons or ammunition.
The following weapons have been adopted by the Almy and are
currently in use:
(a) Rifle: Model 24 caliber 7192, of Czech manufacture
. styled after the German model 98N with two main
differences; the Czech rifle has a straight bolt while
the German model had a curved bolt; the Czech rifle has
a metal belt swivel screwed into the underside of the
butt of the stock while the German model had a belt slot
cut through the stock. The rifle is manufactured by
Ceska Zbrojovka at Brno,
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(0) Heavy machine gun: Model 37,
led, each belt holding 200 ro
500 COPka Zbrojovka. tkvLs ?est
type in th rorld; the Gezp.Pda SS Elite troop
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as their standard. heavy ILa?:nine guL.
(d) Sub machine gun: The Czech sub machine gun is .a postwar-
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developed weapon manufactured by Ceska Zbrojovka in 1948
and 14.90 at Brno, Usetin and Povazska Bystrica where
:plants of Ceakca Zbrojovka are located. It is manufactured
in thr, fllodels all of'which are 9mm caliber and magazine
fed. Hau4IneL.7 are of two capacities, 24 and 40 rounds,
The ma6azine is straight and not curved-like the Soviet
The, three models are:
(1) Model 48 A is a one piece gun with a wooden stock;
(2) Model 48 B is all metal with a hinged metal stock
which roldia over the top of the gun similar to the
Soviet model PPS M1943.
Model 45 C, is all metal with a metal stock which
.was specifically designed for paratroops and can
easily be broken down into three parts thus making
it portable within the clothing of a paratrooper,
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Panzerfaust;, The Czech Army has adopted the German
PahZerfaust Of World War IT
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Li t; maohirv' g!In: Model 26
fed, each magazine holdinG 2(
alSo manufal:tured by Oeska 7L,
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? I the Czechs have
?MOdiried the GerMah model and have increased its effective
range to 300 meters and that it is being manufacturpA
by the Czechs.
.(f) Pistol: Currently there are two types of pistols in
? uSe in the Czech army; the German 9mm pistol, and the
,Soviet pistol TT m2933 Tokarev.
Mortars: There are two types of mortars which are in
ust,in the Czech Army: the German 80mm mortar, and
the Soviet 82mm, mortar 1943 model.
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The ammunition used in both mortars
'during training was the 80mm ammunition abandoned by
the Germans, when they left Czechoslovakia.
3. .The following anti-tank weapons were used by the Czech Army:
(a) Panzerfaust: The German model 2e para 227.
(b) 45 mm AT gun: This is the Soviet model M1942 and is the
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fie-',1, at the. QM Sehcl at Z,I-Lln_4 no _t_lie
school,at - .11c in 1949 iTYA 1951.: tbat L?,i- t,',',2.b.
had ander dei.;eIopment a 5'71.11y- AT (.1)-(3 -tyl-d ill...r t-r
:00*aur Pi K 57mm AT gun. 3'... was rumored Oat t.L.,,
new gun would have a muzzle velocity of 1400 meers per
.SfeCond, also that thisweapon would replace the Soviet
45 mm_AT gun currently 1.. use.
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Plates on these guns stated that they were manufactured
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500 ,,AT guns made for the Germans at Skoda _durin the war.
In 1949
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the kftm AT gun discussed
by other officers who said that this gun would be
Manufactured by the Czechs.
the Czech dd 'ma AT gun would have a muzzle velocity of
1600 meters per second.
5. The condition of the present Czech infantry weapons is good;
50:00 the-Czaala-Paintain them well. In the event of an emergency
au?h4?,P. war, howeVer, the weapons in use would
50X1 be replaced by new weapons of the same type which are being
-,100ngaCtured by Czechs. There are sufficient stocks of
tion available
50X1, Huge stocks of
ammunition Were abandoned by the Germansyand the Czechs
50:00 preSerVed these well; further, the Czechs are capable of
pliodurct:ng_tiheir own ammunition, the present Czech
5mo Tit made ul, of about 120,000 men; it is e_;Ilipped fully
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W t e weapons described in previous paragraphs. In the
event Oa war f
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force of about b00,000 with the weapons they have on hand,
eloaOt that there would be a shortage of anti-tank guns, tanks
Aiid aircraft. experience any difficulty in obtaining
rW-Iedithents or spare parts for weapons
attbe Infantry School at
Lippik or at the qm School at Zlaina. The ;stocks of spare
tarts at both slacee were more t an adequate
this is the case throughout
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? 6, no definite information about partial or entire ta:(,-
50X1 men .s 'zaanufactured weans by bovit -takes, .-xcept
hearsay 1.Dfortion that it would be d,i)4, aomeday to
uniformity which would be very benlficial in tie event of a
conflict. This informaion is based on talks with ;other
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rio information about such
a changeover being in process or any evidence that Soviet
50X1 caliber weapons are being manutctured in Czechoslovakia.
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