AIRCRAFT PLANT AT RODBEREZHE

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CIA-RDP82-00457R010000240007-1
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C
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2
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December 14, 2016
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January 8, 2001
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7
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February 18, 1952
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REPORT
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COUNTRY SUBJECT 25X1X Approved For Release 2001/03/06 : CIA-RDP82-00457RO10000240007-1 25X1 C CLASS[ FI( ` r6N sii~ CONTROL O111I.,y 25X1A SEOULITY INFORJ,ATICN CENTRAL INTELLIGENCE AGENCY REPORT NO. INFORMATION REPORT CD NO, USSR (Ivoscow Oblast) DATE DISTR, lC' Feb. 1952 tvircraf't Plant at I oabererhe NO. OF PAGES 2 1. The experts of the airframe sections of the Siebel, Heinkel and Junkers Aircraft Plants were deported to Podberezhe (56oL51N/37o091E), Moscow Oblast,where they worked in a small airframe plant. This plant, which had been repaired by German PWs, was equipped with machinery dismantled at the above mentioned German plants. The plant had a work force of about 2,000.. (1) 2. Under,. the supervision of chief designers Heinz Roessing and Guenther, (fnu), a rocket-driven prototype model, designed at the German Research Institute for Gliders (DFS) before the end of the war, was built. The gross weight of the plane was 3.5 tons, the initial thrust was about 3 tons. So far as source knew the plane was to be.used as a light bomber. Further details were not available. (2) 3. The reconstruction of the model, which was designated DFS-3146, was completed in June 1950. Flight tests with the craft were to start at an airfield east of Stalingrad in June 1950. The DFS-346 was to be towed to an altitude of 10,000 meters and then released. The craft, manned by only one pilot in prone position, had a rated speed of 1,800 ?ten per hour. The so-called C and T agents, formerly used in Germany, were to serve "-,,;9r-.the craft. Lj.. In the summer ly 17 tons, wa ILLEGIB 8 to 10 km sou have been turn Fitted with s of approximate for +.wn Sn,rLA+. km per hour. Nearly all the aircra ? truments were recently developed. .~' A course control set, operating on the induction principle, was also new- ly installed. Through this set, all course data were automaticall fed t y o a Siemens-type.oscillograph for later evaluation. This device was constructed by the Siemens organization deported to Leningrad. (5) Approved For Release 2001/03/06 : CIA-RDP82-00457RO10000240007-1 Approved For R I ae 2OOiiL037b61 eIA-RDP82-00457R010000240007-1 25X1A then shipped out. Details are not available. 6. Wolfgang Ziese, formerly employed at the Siebel Aircraft Plant, was the test pilot for the ]FS-3116. He was later to be replaced by Karl Treuter, who had flight tested the Ju-88. On 1 September 1950, 55 German famili6s were returned while 550 specialists remained in the U.S.S.R., some with their dependents. The cooperation between Germans and Russians was very poor. F-3 7. Source heard that the Jumo-003 C engine was mass produced in Kazan. (,- 7r-Vl A Cnmrnr~ni.~ (1) This i ormation was previously known LJnlr1 (2) Heinz Roessing was a designer from the .ant. Information on him was previously transmitted. Sieg the chief designer of the Heinkel iircraft Plant. He'is be ieve o ave igher qualifications than Roessing. Although FWs mentioned experiments with a rocket-propelled aircraft in Podberezhe, details on the type of plane concerned have not been obtained. There is a possibility that the information refers to a further development of the Me-263, an improved version of the Me-163 designed by Marschofen with an endurance of 15 minutes. Although about 1100 airframes of this type were available at the end of the war, the corresponding engines were never built. (3) The advanced work on the Dl'S-346 is known. Noteworthy is the remark that the plane was to be tested at a field east of Stalingrad. Light and smoke phenomena were repeatedly observed by PWs in the are: a6 of Ot.al i? grad in the summer of 1949. While these phenomena were prey ed to be connected with V-2 launchings they are now believe caused by experiments with rocket propelled aircraft types.;' ; 25X1A 1772, _ ......._.,.._..~.~ (4) The information partly contradicts previous information acc the flight tests for this type of aircraft, except for the range test, were completed in late 1948. There is a p tests observed concern a version of this type of airc more powerful engines. Noteworthy is the reference to where the tests were apparently made. This statement 1 to the somewhat fanciful description of the flying act ,hee by FWs. (5) This is believed to refer to the Leningrad organization to which Hermann Wolff is attached. `u'olff once comalained in writing about an oscillograph delivered by the tM. .. ,.- 25X1 A (6) The manufacture of steel units for the V-2 is believed to be incorrect since no V-2 expert was attached to the construction staff concerned. Other parts required for aircraft were presumably concerned. (7) Two Soviet engineers from Plant No 16 in Kazan were present in Upravlen- cheski. However, according to available information, German engineers from Upravlencheski were sent to Ufa to eliminate difficulties experienced with turbine power plants there. 25X1 C i7/CONTROL~ _ ONLY Approved For Release 2001/03/06 : CIA-RDP82-00457R010000240007-1