SEARCHLIGHT PRACTICE AT ROSTOV

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• Document Creation Date: December 19, 2016
• Document Release Date: February 23, 2006
• Sequence Number: 7
• Publication Date: February 9, 1952
• Content Type: REPORT

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ctt(f A~T1RIrL IN 2It~d' AGENCY REPORT NO. [
INFORMATION REPORT CD NO.
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USSR (Rostov Oblast)
Searchlight Practice at Rostov
DATE DISTR.. 9 Feb. 1952
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Searchlight exercises lasting one to two hours were
seen almost daily over Rostov (39045VE/470158N)
prior to midnight after June 1949?
2. From fifteen to forty searchlights wwercr?counted0 A
former German AA-sergeant said that ten of the parti-
cipating search fights were 60-cm sets, and that the
remainder were 150-cr1 searchilights.:
3,, The number of particibating aircraft was estimated at
about thirty., .1 maximum of ten single and twin-engine
planes were seen at one time flying at altitudes from
19,000 to 1,500 meters, in the beams of the searchlights.
The aircraft tried by various evasive maneuvers to
elude the searchlight beans,
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The searchlights first lost their targets frequently,
but later followed them easily. No more than four
searchlights would concentrate on one target. when a
target was caught by a searchli h'?? tip : three or four
nearest searchlights would concentrate on its if an
aircraft encountered the beam of another searchlight,
that light would take over while one of the other
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se!-irchlights began to search for another target. This
procedure was advantageous in that serve;?al planes could
hhe s .rotted simultaneous? y? but a dray back was that the
planes spotted were easily lost again. It was noticed
frequently that searchlights found t .eir targets with-
out searching the sky, this induced the A. ,- -_.rgeant
to believe that radar was being used,
'mtiaircraft artillery fire was never heard Vo A.A guns
were seen in hotov.
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