Documents / FOIA release
This is a CIA Office of Research and Reports contribution to National Intelligence Estimate 11-14-64, dated 6 October 1964, on the capabilities of Soviet general-purpose forces from 1964 to 1970. It updates evidence on Soviet doctrine for theater warfare, the effect of low wartime birth rates on military conscription and the labor supply, tactical missile systems, the Soviet and Satellite tactical air forces, and Soviet naval submarine, surface and air forces. The report does not mention unidentified flying objects.
. TOPSECRET above, Soviet military publications have been giving increased emphasis to the potential contribution of tactical aviation to theater warfare operations. The Soviet Tactical Air Force is administratively subordi- nate to Headquarters Soviet Air Forces, Moscow, and operationally sub- ordinate to the commanders of military districts (MD's) and tactical air armies. In wartime, operational control would be vested in the theater commander. TAF units are located throughout the USSR, in East Germany, Poland, and Hungary. In the forward areas (the groups of forces out- side the USSR and the peripheral military districts in the USSR) the TAF units are known as tactical air armies (TAA's). In the interior areas of the USSR, where there is no requirement for a full tactical air army, there are smaller elements known as air forces of military districts. A reexamination of information con- cerning the tactical air order of battle undertaken over the past year indicates that a drastic reduction and reorganization of the Soviet Tactical Air Force took place from April through June 1960. Changes in organizational structure indicated that the tactical air organizations in both the Northern and the Leningrad MD's were placed under the operational control of the 13th TAA and that elements of the 22nd TAA were transferred or deactivated. It appears also that at least some tactical fighter elements in the interior and TO27 - TOP CRET -
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