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This is an October 1968 contribution by the Central Intelligence Agency's Office of Strategic Research to National Intelligence Estimate 11-14-68 on Soviet and East European general purpose forces. It covers Warsaw Pact war plans for Central Europe, the effects of the Czechoslovak crisis, and the doubling of Soviet forces on the Chinese border since 1965. It also assesses ground, tactical air, naval and coastal defense forces. The text does not mention UFOs or unidentified aerial phenomena.
“The Advance”9 pages
TOPGRFT account for about one-third of all the combat aircraft in Front air forces. 3. Force Composition About three-fourths.of the 3,500 combat aircraft in Soviet tactical air units are assigned to fighter regiments. These regiments usually are designated for either. air defense or ground attack, although they all train for both missions. The air- craft are- generally specialized for one mission and are of.only limited effectiveness in their secondary roles. The ground attack capabilities of the fighters. assigned to air defense regiments are limited by their relatively short combat radius and small payload ca- pacities. Conversely, the fighter-bombers assigned to ground attack regiments are not equipped with air- borne intercept radar and are armed only with guns and unguided rockets. Only about 360 light bombers are deployed with strike regiments in the tactical air forces, and more than 500 aircraft of various types are assigned to reconnaissance units. (See Figure 7, below, and Table 2, opposite page.) Figure 7 Soviet Tactical Aviation: Aircraft Inventory 5,000 2,500 0 19__196f_ 1963 1967 1970 - 57 -
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FOIA release, from the cia-readingroom collection. The PDF is mirrored here; the original link is above. 115 pages are in the text index: search them above, or from the library's search.