FACTORIES PRODUCING TANKS, GUNS, AND DIESEL MOTORS

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• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP83-00415R002200080001-7
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• Document Page Count: 3
• Document Creation Date: December 19, 2016
• Document Release Date: December 21, 2005
• Sequence Number: 1
• Publication Date: March 1, 1949
• Content Type: REPORT

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COUNTRY USSR
DATE DISTR. 1 March 1949
SUBJECT Factories Producing Tanks, Guns, and Diesel NO. OF PAGES 1
Motors
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25X1 1. Attached are two reports on the production of tanks, guns, and Diesel
25X1 motors in the USSR. This material is being sent to you for retention.
A. Production of Aviation Diesel Motors for Use in Tanks and
Self-propelled Guns.
B. Armament Production.
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Country: USSR
Subject: Production of German Aviation Diesel Motors for Use in
Tanks and Self-propelled uns at Gorki
The following types of German aviation Diesel motors, adapted for use in
Soviet Army tanks and self-propelled guns, are being built in the Krasnoye
Sormovo works at Gorki. Some parts of these motors are being made in
the Russki Diesel works in Leningrad:
JUhMO 201 (1700 rpm)
JUAMO 205 (2200 rpm)
JULIO 207 (2800 rpm)
JUMO 207-A (performance not knonn )
25X1 Comment: Tanks in vilich such motors could be used would
necessarily be very large.)
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Subject: Armament Production This mat:risl procured by
1. 'ngineers and technicians have been transferred to the Russian armaments
trusts from the following German works: Leichtmetallwerke A.G., Mansfeld
in Hettstedt, Goetze Werke in Apolda, Sauerbrey in Stassfurt, Peniger
Maschinenfabrik in Penig, Hase in Erfurt, Rohde and Doerenberg in Schmoelln,
and Max Weber in Zittau.
2. The tank works at 4-'helyabinsk mainly employs German specialists who worked
during the war on the development of the German tanks "Panther" and "Tiger",
including Hugo Sandler, Gerhard/ilfke, Heinrich Kuenze, Gustav Sertorius,
Hugo Kreisbahn, and Anton von Poller. They are engaged in the production
of new models fff the "tiger" and "Panther" with more powerful and more numerous
weapons than the original models. In the sections which produce trucks,
German workers are employed on the military type DKY * ich was used by the
German Army in the war.
3. The Arsenal at Nizhni Tagil produces almost exclusively anti-aircraft material
of the Shvak type (20mm, L barrel) on special German mountings. It is planned
to make anti-aircraft guns of the Uerman type MK 43, the prototype of which (37
mm with 4 barrels) was produced shortly before the German capitulation. The
plans were discoverd by the soviet secret service (?) duaang the'fighting in
Berlin.
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