SOVIET WEAPONS AND EQUIPMENT

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• Document Creation Date: December 27, 2016
• Document Release Date: May 6, 2013
• Sequence Number: 8
• Publication Date: January 8, 1953
• Content Type: REPORT

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CENTRAL INTELLIGENCE AGENCY
INFORMATION REPORT
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SUBJECT Soviet 'Weapons and Equipment
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It is called the ZP1,43. It uses a collimator type cross hair which is viewed
through a mirrored reflection. I am not too clear on exactly how it is accom-
plished but. the ZPR-43 can track targets Which are moving at great speeds. The
sight itself does not look very much different from the older version, in May
1951, even newer sight was received about whichI
know nothing except tnat, yam .posed to be used against jet planes. I only
saw the *rates in which these sights were received, 50X1
a lecture given by Lt Ool 5an??ho had
arrived from oommanding an AAA regimoLnt in 3ika. The lecture covered all nay
Soviet AA development.. The rate of fire is about the same as the 37-am gwl but
the gun is faster from travelling to firing position. It has a sight which 50X1
computes like a director and can effeetively fire against planes on =mai-Misr
courses, etc. Furthermore, a Lieutenant Who was mechanically very
pmart designed a model of a computing sight which he thought might be used on
the 37-mm gun. He sent the model to: Moscow and received a letter in reply Which
thanked him for his effort and said that the sight was well designed, etc, but
that a sight using the same principle and of more simple construction vas already
being produced for a new 57-mm AA gun. I have also heard about the 57.1mm AA gun
fraa numerous other officers. I feel absolutely positive that such a gun is now
in use.
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The 90-mm guns are not Soviet manufactured. I wao told that they were Oanadian-
made. I am not as sure of the actual existence of the 100-mm AA gun es I am of
the 57.4mm gun because I have heard of it only from Lt Col Semenohuk. Be stated
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that shitUnition for the gun was loaded into some sort of a rack or conveyor system -
which-fed:the roundel through an automatic fuze setter and then into the gun. The
loading system gas said to be similar to the German 12.8-cm AA gun. It was claimed
that the maximum vertical range was 16,000 meters and that the maxim= slant range
Arict- 45 degree elevation) was 25,000 meters.. No further details were given.
Co]. Semenchuk stated very positively that the 100.-mm guns were gradually replacing
the $5.4111i and 90-mm guns in his former regiment in Baku. I guess that this gun
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I am not positive but I am fairly sure that it is a single gun only.
He next told of a 140?mm AA gun which was still on the drawing boards in Moscow. He
mentioned only that this experimental weapon was to have Oradar sights".
Lt Col Semsnohuk then told about the new Malakhit radar set and made reference to other
more fantastic weapons such as guided missiles which he said were under development,
He said that they had already been tested in the Baku area but I got the impression
that the trials had not been very successful.
In Germany we were issusd only World War II ammunition. I have heard however that the
T-5 time fuse is no longer manufactured because it was affected so greatly by atmos-
pheric conditions. It was replaced by the M42 clockwork fuze but this model proved
unsatisfactory and was in turn replaced by the M46 fuse which is also of the clockwork
type.
I have been told by several officers who have came from the Byeleirossiszeitlitary
district that all the troops there are equipped with the nralashnikovn submaohtas
gun. It is a 7.62-mm weapon which fires the regular rifle ammunition and holds 30
rounds in a dram. All of the officers spoke very enthusiastically about the light
weight, accuracy and general excellence of design of this,, gun. It was designed by
a Sergeant (Armorer) Kalashnikov who was working in the Potsdam workshops Vhsn he
designed the gun, He received a Stalin prise for his work in either 1949 or 1950
and his picture was put up in and' the unit political rooms. This is the only new
weapon I have heard of other than the AA weapons I have described,
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