THE TANK FACTORY AT MLADENOVAC, SERBIA

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP82-00457R005400310010-1
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: S
• Document Page Count: 2
• Document Creation Date: December 15, 2016
• Document Release Date: February 2, 2001
• Sequence Number: 10
• Publication Date: August 2, 1950
• Content Type: REPORT

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INFORMATION REPOT CD NO. 3 469
COUNTRY Yugoslavia
UNFIPENTIAL
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DATE DtSTPy :?t Wit,
SUBJECT The Tank Factory at Mladenovac, Serbia, NO, OF PACES 2
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A newly constructed tank factory is located on Viasko Poije near Serbia. In addition to 2,300 civilian employees there is an urns _exa:` ::led
number of Army trainees who work at the factory in order to oba: :;a techh--
nical experience necessary as engineer officer candidates, Unmi". 04f-amber-
1948a 128 German and Austrian prisoners of war were employed a d `~h ar;ta~r
as specialists, of which number only 25 Germans and one Austrian n t ?' in at
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assistant is Captain Boris Fode, a Soviet engineer and a former mss:"r of
6 Air Base., The director of the school for qtr s- trainees is nployee
Engineer Gl_obuca, The chief of construction is Vladimir Podboro(,,n- 11e
factory directorate is located in felgrade0 Barracks have been lb.:: ?; in
which to quarter the Array trainees and factory guards, while aFa.:vt= >t;
ba: ildings were constructed near the factory for the use of of . ,c +> : ; ;--, rld
engineers 2
20 The director of the factory is Major Anton Kurt, a Communist,, ~.-
34 The factory facilities comprise the following sections:
a. A 380 kilowatt power plant,
b, An unspecified number of laboratories,
c. Drafting offices,
d0 Foundries of unspecified types.
e, Four Siemens furnaces for melting steel
f. Carpenter shops,
g, An electric workshop,
h. A motor workshop, now being lengthened from its former 53 e: . to
380 meters
i. A tank assembly shop,
.Machine workshops containing 53 turning lathes and scrapers,,
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This document isf hereby regraded to
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letter of 16 October 1978 from the
Director of Central Intelligence to the
Archivist of the United States.
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k0 A machine section equipped with 27 `?glodalice ll*.
1. Equipment for testing motors and transmission boxes n
are 'of. `;v~issa Sw` di.sh, Cermrin, and to an unspecified extent, YuCos'L:' m.anu-
facture.
A smithy contair:-intg various hydraulic presses. and steacre-driven
o. A heating plan
A wa'tei" tower.
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Plans for the tans produced in this factory are based on those of the rriet T-34,
with certain additions and improvements on the original model, ~' mong.. im-
provements are:
a. A water purr,-, a nq xr ha Turns , and an oil pumpu
bP A transmi ion box,
C. A twelve cylinder IN" engine.
d ~ A small, ;wo? wheeled trailer with a carrying capacity of 500 1j. ",ors h of
oil and iater.
These anrro-rements have added\ eight tons to the weight of the tank and r:; re
reportedly increased its speed from 45 kilometers to 53 kilometers.3 per tt.::.xr, The
improved p+Amps are being fitted' to old tanks.
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