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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.
Lc \SECRET submarines and the great and growing distances at which ASW operations must be conducted. Soviet ASW capability varies widely with the theater of operation. It appears to be effective in local sea theaters off Soviet-controlled coastlines where surface and submarine ASW forces, heavily supported and protected by aircraft, operate jointly. As dis- tance from the coastline increases, Soviet capabilities diminish rapidly. The surface forces available for ASW operations consist of more than 100 destroyers of older classes and about 40 new ships con- structed since 1960 and equipped with the latest Soviet ASW gear. This latter group 'includes about 35 of the seagoing Petya and Poti classes of ASW ships and about 6 of the Kashin and Kynda classes of guided mis- sile frigates. The newer Kashin class is believed to be the most impor- tant ship in the ASW program. Increased use of mobile acoustic platforms, including sonobuoys, is evident. Faced with the difficult problem of detecting today's high-performance submarines, the USSR is forced to rely largely on barrier-type submarine patrols carried out by the large fleet of diesel submarines of the W and R classes. Search patrols made up of the growing fleet of nuclear-powered N-class and diesel-powered F-class submarines range farther to sea than the large fleet of W-class and the improved R-class conversions. A portion of the N and F classes, how- ever,will function as'forward observers for target acquisition for cruise-missile submarines operating against enemy surface forces and - C E - TOP ,CRET
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FOIA release, from the cia-readingroom collection. The PDF is mirrored here; the original link is above. 53 pages are in the text index: search them above, or from the library's search.