SOVIET AIRCRAFT TYPES, EXPLOSIVES CARRIERS, AND TANK ARMOR

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• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP82-00457R003600350016-1
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: S
• Document Page Count: 2
• Document Creation Date: December 14, 2016
• Document Release Date: February 27, 2001
• Sequence Number: 16
• Publication Date: October 28, 1949
• Content Type: REPORT

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CENTRAL !NT uLTIGENCE AGENCY REPORT NO.
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COUNTRY USSR. ATE DISTR. 28 Oct. ~ 1949
SUBJECT Soviet Aircraft Types, Explosives Cabers, N . OF PAGES 2
and Tank Armor
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1. The following information and specifications are reported concerning the
Soviet jet fighter YAK-15, which is a development of the YAK-3o
a. {:angine: Junkers Jura, OOA/K?-4/ with a static power of 1800 kg. These
engines are being manufactured in tr'e USSR.
b. ruselage: a construction of steel tubing, the wings reinforced by metal
heams and wood supports. Both fuselage and wings are covered
with plywood. The elevator and rudder section is entirely of
wood construction.
c. Dimensions:
r in_g span - 9.45 meters
length - 9.18 meters
d. 4eapons:
one 20mm? cannon SHVAK - firing rate of 600-800 per minute
two 12.7 mrrm machine guns, f3eresina type - firing rate 800-10UC
Fer minute.
7 mm plate back of cockpit
4 nut side walls of cockpit
heavy plate covering area behind pilot's head and neck
no armor forward or undr area of cockpit
f. Performance figures:
maximum ceiling - about 13,000 meters
maximum range about 60U km.
cruising speed -- about 780 kru. per hour
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2. Six of these planes were stationed at the Polish airfield of Torun for a
2::toa.3_- week period. As reported by the Soviet pilots, the Soviet jets
were crashing very frequently prior to September 1948. Since September
1948, the accident rate has-steadily decreased, possibly as a result of the
use of more German specialists in the training exercises. Numerous flighta
of the YAK-15 have been observed in the Torun area.
3. The following information and specifications are reported concerning two
1IG fighter aircraft currently being produced in the USSR.
a. UIG-9 is a jet fighter Flane of mid-wing design with two Chelomei
engines, each of 1,800 kg. static thrust, mounted side by side.
This aircraft has the following specifications: wing span, 12.85 m.;
length 11.65 m; armament, one 37 mm gun and two 20 mm cannon. Its
maximum speed is 1,000 km. per hour.
b. :IG single engine fighter has one Chelomei engine of 2,700 kg. power.
It is a plane of high wing design with wing span of 10.6 m and length
of 9.25 m.
4. The following models and characteristics of Soviet aircraft are reported.
a. Strategic planes: Tupolev-4 and Jumo-4H
range.: 5,000 km.
speed : 500 kru. per hour
characteristics: 4 turbine motors
b. Bombardier-transports: Autopropul
weight: 100 tons
range 4,000 km.
c. Jet pursuit planes:
YAK-15 : speed - 850 kmo per hour
MIK--R-l: speed - 900 kme'per hour
5. Soviet flyers are reportedly being trained to operate the following two
types of jet aircraft.
a. A Flan with two turbo-jets mounted under the wings, which are swept
back; a high tail assembly; a two -wheeled retractable landing gear;
armament consisting of two heavy 12.7 mm. machine guns and one cannon
mounted in the nose; a speed of+approximately 900 km. per hour. The
y;lane has a snout-like glass (sic) cockpit cupola. It is reported to
have a good climbing capacity.
b. A single jet plane, manufactured in Kuibyshev and Tbilisi:. 6 in. (sic)
long, 10 m. wing spread, jet 60 cm. in diameter mounted on under side of
the fuselage. armament is the name as the above (pars 5a). This plane
is reported to have a speed of 1,000 km, per hour, and can exceed this
speed with auxiliary BKW rocket attachments.
6. Approximately 18,500 "Goliath=" explosives carriers are being produced
annually at Kharkov. This carrier is a wheeled vehicle which is intended
in wartime to be loaded with explosives and to be directed against enemy
positions by remote control,
7. Buffer springs are being manufactured at Chelyabinsk to support seta of outer
armor plating on Soviet tanks, These 25 mm, springs are supposed to connect
the 16 cm. armored hull of a certain type tank with an outer set of armor
plating 14 mm. thick.*
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