"TANKIST: ARTICLES ON TANK WARFARE AND TANKS: 64 PAGES, RUSSIAN: APRIL 1947"

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP83-00415R013200040005-5
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: C
• Document Page Count: 2
• Document Creation Date: December 14, 2016
• Document Release Date: October 5, 2001
• Sequence Number: 5
• Publication Date: November 26, 1952
• Content Type: REPORT

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I :_ articles on tank warfare and tanks;: 64 pages;. Russian;
Soviet monthly periodical' published in Moscow; information covers
period from start of war to 1947,
The subject of each article in the periodical is listed below:
to Preparation for and execution of night advances9
2. Pre-attack reconnaissance: its purpose and how to carry it out.. Two
sketches.
3. Battle order and tactical control of shock troops,
Lt. Tank companies on outpost station: duties of commanding officer and
disposition of tanks, Two sketches,
5. Lessons learned from operations of mine-clearing tanks during the wax.
Two sketches,
6, Organization and direction of training exercises for tank units, Four
stages of a maneuver, including a night advance., are considered. Sketch,
7, Staff field exercises,
8, Tank battalion drill, A table gives breakdown of training proble is and
the orders and action called for,
9, Ways of studying the design and function of tank sights, Diagrams,
10, Uses and effects of 85- and 122-millimeter high-.explosive shells
as tank ammunition. Diagrams and table.
U. Maneuvering ground and obstacle run for training tankmen. Four sketches
of recommended layout. Return to GA Library
12, Sumner maintenance of tank.inotor lubrication systems,
13. Pooled depots for mechanized and armoured units,
14. An instrument for observing the process of wear in a crank bearing.
Diagram,
15, Special English and American DD and KDL tanks, (This and the next two
articles are based on information in the English and American press,)
16, American armoured construction machines: dozer4rigged tanksP` etc.
17, The English Terrapin amphibious personnel carrier.
This foreign document or microfilm of it (C12836) is available from CIA library;
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