PAGE THIRTEEN,
THURSDAY, SEPT. 2, 1943
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America Two
Years Behind
Reds in Aircraft
i ' . By Douglas Larsen
(NEA Staff Correspondent)
c Washington (NEA) It would
take America two years to catch
up with soviet military aircraft
production. '
"Competent authorities esti
mate that Russia should produce
about 1,000 B-29 type bombers in
1948." That's more than double
, the expected production ol heavy
bombers in America for this year.
The quote is part of a whole
new body of information about
Russian aviation which has just
been published. It makes possible
a new comparison between soviet
and American aircraft produc
:tion. It appears in the "World
- Aviation Annual," one the most
. complete collections of informa
tion about world aviation ever as
sembled. The annual is published
Dy we Aviation Kesearch insti
tute with the James Jackson Cab
ot professorship of air transporta
tion of Norwich university.
The book explodes some pre
viously held theories about the
. Russian aviation industry and
confirms others.
The annual says: "After hostil
ities ceased, the soviet aircraft in
dustry continued to operate at
full capacity but is producing a
greater, proportion of heavy
bombers . ; ." It reveals that Rus
sian full capacity is 40,000 planes
a year.
The United States' 70-group air
force program, which still has to
be financed, would give this
country 12,400 first-line planes for
the AAF and 8,015 for the navy, a
total of 20,415. These would be of
the most modern types. But it will
be five years before the program
is completed, even if there is no
delay.
Representative Charles R. Clas
on, R., Mass., chairman of the
armed services' subcommittee on
air materiel, writes in Planes, pub
lication of the Aircraft Industries
association, that "by the end of
1953 or in early 1954 our two air
striking arms should be equipped
with the world's best airplanes,
and will be maintained at this
level."
But, Planes points out, time is
vital. Annual ' output of combat
planes has averaged about 1,400
a year since V-J day, bufthe new
program demands a rate of 4,000
a year. And behind assembly of
the completed plane is a series of
time lags. It takes more than a
year to get aluminum from the
bauxite mine to the plane assem
bly line. Propellers take eight
months from start to delivery;
conventional engine units may
take up to 10 months, and some
new design jets require as much
as two years.
Based on the World Aviation
Annual figures, a spokesman for
the industry says it would take
two years for this country to
catch up with soviet production
rates.
The annual denies the widely
circulated theory that Russia has
great numbers of giant aircraft
plants hidden deep in Siberia. It
says:
"Oddly enough, the soviet air
craft industry is not primarily lo
cated behind the Urals in Siberia.
Before the war the Moscow in
riustrial region was the main cen
ter of aircraft manufacture. Dur
ing the war, many plants were
evacuated eastward, but mostly
to the Volga valley. Though iso
lated airplane factories exist in
the Urals, Siberia, the soviet far
east and central Asia, most soviet
planes are still produced in Euro
pean Russia."
Moreover, the annual says that
"almost all the chief research in
stitutes of USSR aviation are lo
cated in Moscow." Thus Russia's
aircraft industry in general is re
vealed as far more vulnerable to
enemy bombing than U.S. mili-
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cast her clothes aside when the weather man gave the Eastern half
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tary experts hitherto had believed
possible. !
A significant weakness in Rus
sia's aviation Industry is also
shown in the annual's statement
that "about $1,500,000 worth of
motors and other parts" were
bought by the USSR from the.U.S.
and Britain in 1947. These "other
parts" were mostly landing gears
for the big bombers. This, it is
believed by the experts, proves
that Russia Is far behind the U.S.
in the making of tough metals,
one of the big headaches in pro
duction of landing gears for big
bombers.
It is also known that many
types of military and commercial
planes in Russia's big aircarft
production have been copied di
rectly from U.S. planes. This in
dicates a weakness in the ability
of Russian designers and re
searchers. The annual, however,
says that "jet fighters of five dif
ferent designs and four-motored
jet bombers have been seen in
llight" over Russia.
The annual s description ot tne
soviet air force is particularly
timely: -
"The soviet air force itself is
under the USSR ministry for the
armed forces, the Russian equiva
lent of the U.S. department of de
fense. As in the United States,
Russia's air force is a separate
branch of the armed services
equal to the army and navy. For
administrative purposes, the so
viet air force is subdivided into
three functional branches: tne
army air force (for cooperation
with the ground troops), long
range aviation (equivalent to the
U.S. strategic bombing lorcej,
and naval aviation."
The annual describes the kus-
slan air arm as "primarily train-
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ed and equipped for close coopera
tion with land armies, which is
considered its main role in pres
ent USSR military plans. Its stra
tegic bombing force Is small, and
naval aviation has no aircraft
carriers."
A serious weakness in both
Russia's commercial and military
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