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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.
~TI..'.' Approved for Release: 2018/01/30 C00659420 TCS 4425/as » 5. Antisubmarine Warfare 302. Research and development in lantisubmaririe warfare (ASW) and naval weapons, if they exist at all, appear to be token efforts. The Chinese Navy cannot expect any large-scale improvements in its ASW weapons systems until such time as the coun- try receives massive aid from an outside source. 303. Little evidence exists to show China’s cur- rent activity in the design, development, or pro- duction of sonar equipment for naval use. For the most part, the Chinese probably have relied on Soviet sonars, such as the Tamir, Feniks, and Plu- toniy, which are believed to have been installed aboard Chinese naval ships during the 1955 to 1960 (period of Sino-Soviet collaboration. At that time, the Chinese were not attempting to perform original research but were trying to modify the Soviet re uirements.q l China is producing fishfinders and has produced a fathometer that is comparable to the Soviet NEL-4 fathometer. It may also have developed an omnidirectional sono- buoy. 6.l l /\/\ O‘ O“ \_¢\/ /\/\ @ @ CTCT —'F9P-SEGR-EL b3 56 \ D3, Approved for Release: 2018/01/30 C00659420
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