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This Central Intelligence Agency release is a Scientific Intelligence Study, TCS No. 4425/65. The Scientific Intelligence Committee prepared it with other intelligence community committees and approved it on 3 June 1965. It assesses Communist China's capabilities in science and technology through 1970, with particular attention to military and industrial programs. The study concludes that China will lag far behind advanced nations. The exceptions are a few priority areas such as nuclear weapons, missiles and air defense. It contains no discussion of UFOs.
“The Advance”26 pages
‘:1 ~s r 4 t » *. ‘w I . ll Approved f Approved for Release: 2018/01/30 C00659420 b 3----oNs—Di1ring the time frame of this assessment, China will continue to manufacture Soviet-type infantry weapons on which data and tooling were provided by the USSR prior to the 1960 break between the two countries. China willincrease her technical intelligence col- lection efforts against the USSR and other pro- ducers of modern infantry weapons as a start to- ward the development of an in-house capability to design her own infantry weapons. The develop- ment of such a capability, however, is not expected to receive a high priority, and China will not gain a worthwhile native capability to design and de- velop. modern infantry weapons by 1970. .285. c. ANTIAIBCRAFT An"rn.LEnY—Antiaircraft ar- tillery units of the Chinese armed forces employ Soviet-designed 37mm, 57mm, 85mm, and 100mm guns to support the Air Defense Organization. All of these weapons have proven effective against slow flying aircraft within the limits of their range capabilities. The 37mm gun, M1939, is a towed weapon which has no radar or remote control equipment. The gun, capable of firing 80 rounds per minute, utilizes optical sights and has a maxi- mum eifective AA range up to 4,500 feet. The towed 57mm AA gun, S-60, utilizes both on- carriage (optical) and off-carriage ( radar] director) fire control equipment. This gun, which is the most recently developed Soviet AA gun, has a sus- A 53 or Release: 2018/01/30 C00659420
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