PRODUCTION OF CHINESE COMMUNIST ARSENALS

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP82-00457R011900120010-0
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: C
• Document Page Count: 2
• Document Creation Date: December 19, 2016
• Document Release Date: March 15, 2006
• Sequence Number: 10
• Publication Date: May 8, 1952
• Content Type: REPORT

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SECURITY INFORMATION
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COUNTRY China DO NOT CIRCULATE "
25X1 SUBJECT Production of Chinese Communist Arsenals
DATE DISTR. S May 1952
NO. OF PAGES 2
NO. OF ENCLS.
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SUPPLEMENT TO
REPORT NO.
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. CODE, AS AMENDED. ITS TRANSMISSION OR REVE-
LATION OF ITS CONTENTS TO OR RECEIPT BY AN UNAUTHORIZED PERSON IS
PROHIBITED BY LAW. THE REPRODUCTION OF THIS FORM IS PROHIBITED.
In Communist China there are 160 arsenals, 8 weapons repair shops, and 3
factories making explosives and employing a total of 260,000 workers, in-
cluding 4,500 Japanese and 300 Soviet technicians. The majority of the
arsenals are in Hopeh and Shansi. The Chinese Communist Second (sic)
Arsenal at Mukden produces 16-ton0 24-ton9 and 36-ton tanks.
2. The average monthly output of Chinese Communist arsenals is as follows:
Type Number
Remarks
150 mm field guns- 19 Production started January
1952
105 mm field guns- 25 Production started March 1952
72.2 mm field gun82 45
75 mm .field guns- 87
57 mm recoilless. rifles 8
Flat trajectory guns 80 Most are 37 mm gunsl
Bazookas
Mortars
2,194
Light and heavy machine gene 50210
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Most are 60 mm mortars; some
120 mm and 150 mm mortars
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Sub-machine guns 19080
Including 59000 yellow
phosphorous shells
Pistols 19200
Signal pistols 150
Grenade throwers 5932.0
28-type (sic) rifle
grenade throwersl 49000
Smoke projectiles 3.50
Armored cars 15
Field gun shells 479000
Mortar shells 4114 7CO
Bazooka rockets 14500
Chemical projectiles 159420
28-type rifle grenades 1509000
Hand grenades 298849500
Rifle and machine
gun cartridges 4295109000
Pistol cartridges 609000
Flares 114000
Land mines 1529400
Explosives 759000 c (sic)
Including 420 gas shells
Including 59000 yellow
phosphorous grenades
Comment. Description of weapon as received.
Comment. Possibly 76.2 mm ~s intended.
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439170 Most are 7.9 mm3 caliber; some
7.5 mm.4 and 6.5 mm5 caliber
Comment. Possibly the G~-::rman 7.92 mm carbine is intended.
Comment. Possibly the Russian 7062 mm is intended.
carb
[rnment. Possibly the Japanese 6.5 mm carbine or cavalry
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