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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.
TOP SEQRET 3. Naval Aviation The Soviet Naval Aviation Force (SNAF) is composed largely of jet medium bombers but also includes jet light bombers, patrol air- craft, and helicopters (see Table 9*). About three-fourths of the 360 to 410 Badgers in the SNAF have an air-to-surface missile (ASM) capability. It is estimated that the medium-bomber component of the SNAF will decline only slightly through mid-1970 and that the intro- duction of the new Blinder will offset a reduction in the Badger recon- naissance force and the total phasing out of the Badger A (AS-1) force. Based on need and on at least one exercise suggestive of an ASM launch, it is estimated that most if not all of the Blinder aircraft will have an ASM capability. Lack of evidence that the ASM for the Blinder has been placed in operationaluse suggests that it is still under de- velopment, possibly at the Vladimirovka Missile Test Range. Because the Blinder has been deployed with SNAF units since 1963, it was esti- mated in the ORR contribution to NIE 11-14-63 that an ASM for it would be deployed by mid-1964. It is now estimated that this weapon could appear by mid-1965. If it does not, it would have to be assumed that the ASM development program is in difficulty, that the missile may have been deployed without our knowledge, or that the Blinder will not carry an ASM. * P. 40, below. - 39 - TO ECRET
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