Chinese Airfields

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP80S01499R000100050011-3
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• Original Classification: S
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• Document Creation Date: December 19, 2016
• Document Release Date: June 30, 2005
• Sequence Number: 11
• Content Type: CHART

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AIRFIELDS IN TIBET AND WESTERN CHINA
1. Ia the maim, the airfields available to the Chinese for
an attack on the border areas of India have natural or gravel sur-
faces and are at a very high altitude; these factors make them
unsuitable for sustained het operations. However] on the basis of
runway lengths the following airfields in China along the Tibetaa
border, and two airfields in Tibet might be used Por 1lmited apera-
tions by het fighters and het light bombers.
39?31'N 7S?S8'E KASHGAR/ZANG KARAVi7L ~~000 feet
Gravel. (/+J000 feet a.m.s.l)
37?09'N 79?S~'E H?-T~t (KSOTAN) SJ000 feet (est.. min,) Packed
gravel (3,000 feet approxt~te
a~m.s.l.)
38?25'N 77?17'E SO-CSE (YARKAND) 8~r 600 feet Sod
(~+~~+OQ feet a.m.s.l)
31?38'N 100-02E KAN-TZU 14000 feet Clsybo~uad crushed
rock. (11500 feet a.m.s.l)
36?45'N 9S?35'E KA-EHR-MU (GOLMO) 8,000 feet Crushed rock.
(9000 feet s.m.s.l)
32?53'N 96?47'E YiT-SHU 8000 feet Claybound crushed
rack. (12,525-feet e.m.s.l)
30?30'N 91?06'E LHASA
13!000 feet Claybound crushed
rock. (14,177 Peet a.m.s.l)
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31?33'N 91?~+4'E NAGCH?[7 DZC~1G 12000 feet (est.), Claybound
crushed rook. ~15~000 feet]
30?~+3'N 103?57'E CB~TTG-TU~WEN-CH:C~}NG 7~g00 Peet Concrete,
~1~700 feet a.m,s.l)
25 ?00' N 102?~+~' E Kt1NNffNG
9,500 feet Concrete.
~b~220 feet a.m.s.l)
2. Unconfirmed reports indicate the possibility that airfields
may have been constructed at the fallawin~ lnrcti~r~
ualike],y
that they would be suitable far het operations, Supportittg facil>
sties would probably be ].invited and the maintexiance of POL supplies
would be extremely difficult,
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