NEW DWARF TANKS

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP82-00457R000600210012-3
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: S
• Document Page Count: 2
• Document Creation Date: November 9, 2016
• Document Release Date: December 16, 1998
• Sequence Number: 12
• Publication Date: May 23, 1947
• Content Type: IR

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R CEP4TRAL INTELLIGENCE GROUP
INTELLIGENCE REPORT
COUNTRY USSR
SUBJECT low Dwarf Tanks
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ORIGIN
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On 10 k+?ebruary l9 47', five new-tom dw f t n were obeerreat port aet of
ev, near a helicopter facctory. They sere travelling at a apsed. of approxi-
mately 40 ka per ho .
The tin had five vision slits; two were in the front, one at each side, and
one In the rear. The slits were very n ow and were protected by G tired
battens (similar to those on the tt aber scout car). A xman aerial was net
above the gla cts plate on the left edge. entry bat was in tho cupolas
and source believed that the tats hd a crew of two.
Now dwarf tanks were obsar d by another sou ce In late December 1946. `i ey
were mounted on four tr s with individual suspension; the tracks appeared to
be somewhat round and were apparently a modified version of the track suspension
of the Volt* half track. The tanke were not remote-controlled, as one man,, In
the unifox of a Soviet t an, was standing in the turret of one of the moving
to
The tank had an armored skirting covering the axles and upper half of the
trac y this skirting was broken to allow for flexibility in the ''Barmoni u "
?arraorod corridor?
The following is ,a sketch of the %=k%
'a Possible grenade thro r
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08 Vision slits (two pa P'1Ue1 con front glacis plate)
Do Wireless aerial
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Class. CHANGED TO: TS S (D
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Comment: In view of the fact that the tank described has four
tracks, a low amount of armament, and is probably fairly vulnerable in the
armored corridor, it is possibly an armored caisson and tractor rather than
a combat tank.
described a new one-man tank, the BUT ; it is 1.20 meters hig ,
armed with a 37mn gun and one machine gun, and is to be used to open attack
lanes for assault infantry.)
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