CIA Reading Room cia-rdp82-00457r002600630003-5: COASTAL ANTI-AIRCRAFT DEFENSES

CLASSIFICATION i er ___ Approved For Release A 9RE2 Eee RIRERE00457 PREPS R20 NE ‘NFORMATION REPORT CD NO. een 25X1A2g COUNTRY Yugoslavia DATE DISTR. 25 APR 1949 SUBJECT Coastal Anti-Aircraft Defenses NO. OF PAGES 1 Rui NO.OF ENGLS. ACQUIRED ee 3 DATE OF IN lv SUPPLEMENT TO REPORT NO. . SOAS 1. The anti-aircraft defense of the Yugoslav coast stretching from fiume to Uleinj is divided into eight sectors and has 290 batteries. In Roka Kotorska alone there are 40 anti-aircraft gun and heavy machine gan batteries. The eight defense sectors are Fiume, Kraljevica, Zadar, Sibenik, Split, Gruz, Boka Kotorska (Zolinika, Tivat, Kotor and Budva ) and UlLeinj. 2, The anti-aircraft batteries are equipped with two to three 88 mn. "Skoda" guns built by the Kragujevac factories. The heavy machine gun batteries nave three to five 20 and 25 mm. caliber guns. 3. The Boka Kotorska sector, considered the most important because of its yulnerability, is equipped with 20 batteries of two 127 mm. anti~aircraft guns each, of Soviet make. Each sector command is equipped with searchlight units, each consisting of four searchlights 150 mm. in dianeter: ‘the Boka Kotorska sector has twelve searchlight units. le The commands of the above~listed sectors are connected with each other by means of field telephone lines and field radio stations operating on ultra~ short wave. f letter © 6 pirector © aan AY rchivist 0 Next Review 22.3 MCE in Class. Approved For Release 2001/03/22 : CIA-RDP82-00457R002600630003-5