MODERNIZATION OF THE 1941 TYPE SUBMACHINE GUN/TECHNICAL DATA/DESCRIPTION OF THE 7,26 MM SOVIET BATTLE BULLETS FOR RIFLE ARMS

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• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP80-00926A007400480006-4
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• Original Classification: C
• Document Page Count: 2
• Document Creation Date: December 14, 2016
• Document Release Date: May 15, 2002
• Sequence Number: 6
• Publication Date: October 11, 1954
• Content Type: REPORT

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CENTRALTINTELLIGENCE AGENCY
INFORMATION REPORT
SUBJECT Modernization of the 1941 Type Submachine Gun/Technical
Data/Description of the 7.26 mmm Soviet Bartle Bullets for
Rifle Arms
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"The 'Submachine gi of the 1941 type I (the pistol machine gun of Shpagin)
has been modernized in the last few years. The disc mamag:azines have been
replaced with box (sector) one and the gun has been provided with a new,
simplified eight o
2. IITht offic ".al data on the modernized version of the 1941 submachine gun are
Weight of gun without loaded magazine
Wright of gun with loaded. mmmagaz ine
fight of sectional mmaa7a.eisip vitro q9;
r`,,cartridges
Inii,`ial velocity
Technical capacity
Practical capacity
Range of eight
h of rifled part of barrel
Length of gun
Length of barrel
ig t of empty magazine
3.65 kg
4.31 kg
O..66 kg
0929 kg
843 =
270 mm
248.5 mm
500 m/seco
1,000 shots per minute
70-100 shots per minute. .
200 m
3- "The gun uses pistol cartridges. of a 7162 mm caliber of the 1930 type. The
weight of a cartridge.ie 10065 gro, and the weight of the bullet 5,5 gro The
gun has ordinary bullets and tracer bullets. The heads of the .s y are
painted green.
4. "Its new sight has two distances only
u
to 200 meters o By one movement of
10 to 20, and vice versa,
10 corresponds to 100 meters and 20
can change the eight from
?
"Every submachine gup shooter carries 245 battle cartridges of which ,,:0 per
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cent have tracing bullets.
6 0 'The 7.62 rim Soviet battle bullets for rifle arms have the following
appearance according to the new nomenclatures
a. ordinary light bullet 9.6 gr - without any distinctive
coloring
b. Ordinary heavy bullet 11.8 Sr - head painted yellow
c. Armor-piercing bullet - head painted black
d. u Trac .ng bullet -head painted green
e. Armor-piercing incendiary bullet - head painted black with
a red ring
f, Armor-piercing incendiary tracing bullet -bead painted
violet with a red ring
g. Incendiary ranging bullet - head painted red
ho ganging bullet - head painted white
"The various boxes of this ammunition have a strip' of the-saw P,0
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LIBRARY SUBJECT ACID AREA CODES
C-02-.615 Io/54
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