SOVIET LIGHTER-THAN-AIR CRAFT

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP82-00457R002000130006-3
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: S
• Document Page Count: 3
• Document Creation Date: December 20, 2016
• Document Release Date: November 7, 2005
• Sequence Number: 6
• Publication Date: August 9, 1948
• Content Type: REPORT

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1. A s'Special Airship Transportation Committee" has been organized under the
Council of :?iiuissters of the USSR to conduct a survey and to develop an air
route in Northera Siberia. Xorpunev is the chairman of this committee.
2. Dr. %ekomin and Khait*Lare in charge of designing and constructing large
airships, with a volume of 20,000 cubic meters and capable of flying at
altitudes of 4.500 meters, to be used by the committee on a 60,000-kilometer
air route.
3.
Soviet mil5tary non-rigid (blimp) airships include the following types:
a. 3? 7aine1
Volume 2,200 cubic meters
Engine two 70 hp
B-3 Class
Volume
Engine
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Length
Diameter
Volume
c. 'tL -tss"'at-lun-shih" (?)
2,500 cubic ,meters
two .300 hp
35.5 meters
7 meters
1,000 cubic meters
Ballonet volume
Xngine
Speed
Crew
The Kiev has a supplementary lifting
its normal lifting, power.
Length
Diameter, maximum
Volume
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point)
,150 cubic meters
50 hp
40 kilometers A er
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power of from 10 to 15 percent of
76.5 meters
13.2 meters
7,000 cubic meters
2,000 cubic meters
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Fagine 100 bp
Speed 40 kilometers per hour
crew 9
4. the following are the specifications of a Soviet rigid (dirigible) airship,
type unstated:
Length 156 meters,
volume 10,800 cubic meters
Engine &17 19 Model-26 air-cooled engines,,
total 5,000 hp
Fuel capacity 13,590 kilograms
Speed, maximum 161 kilometers per hour
cruising 125 kilometers per hour
Cargo 11.25 tons
Passengers 50
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