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This is Volume II of National Intelligence Estimate 11-14-79, Warsaw Pact Forces Opposite NATO, issued by the Director of Central Intelligence and dated January 1979. The National Foreign Intelligence Board concurred with it. It was the first comprehensive estimate of Pact forces facing NATO since 1971. It covers Pact doctrine, the ground, air, naval, nuclear and chemical forces, command and control, and campaign plans for war in Europe. It judges that Central Europe would be the decisive arena, and it lists Pact weaknesses in pilot training and antisubmarine warfare. The document contains no UFO material.
“Headquarters”14 pages
it Top ret Table B-4 Soviet General Purpose Submarines, by Fleet Area- -__ January 1979 Antiship Missile Tubes Missile per Unit Northern Baltic Black Sea Pacific Total Tubes Cruise Missile Submarines Nuclear-Powered (SSGN) E-I1-Class . .................. 8 SS-N-3/12 15 - - 14 29 232 C-I-Class .................... 8 SS-N-7 7 - - 4 11 88 C-Il-Class ................... 8 SS-N-9 3 - - 3 24 P-Class .................... 10 poss. SS-N-9 1 -- - 1 10 Diesel-Powered (SSG) J-Class ........... .......... 4 SS-N-3 12 - - 4 16 64 W-Class .................... 4 SS-N-3 - 2 1 2 5 20 W-Class .................... 2SS-N-3 - - 2 - 2 4 Total Cruise Missile .......... 38 2 3 24 67 442 Torpedo Attack Submarines Nuclear-Powered (SSN) N-Class 8 - - 4 12 E-Class - 5 5 V-I-Class 12 - - 3 15 V-I-Class 6 - - - -- - --- 6-- V-Ill-Class .- - 1 2 A-Class 3 - - - 3 Diesel-powered (SS) W-Class . 5 15 10 15 45 F-Class 36 5 - 19 60 Z-Class 3 4 1 5 13 B-Class 10 - 2 - 12 B-Class 1 - 2 1 4 T-Class 6 - 4 - 10 G-Class 1 -- 2 3 Total Torpedo Attack 92 24 19 55 190 Total c. P. Submarines .. .................... 130 26 22 79 257 Of which nuclear .......................... 56 - - 31 87 aDoes not include submarines in reserve status but does include units in both short- and long-term overhaul or conversion, or on sea trials. Two Y-class SSBNs are being converted to SSNs, but are not likely to become operational this year. B-9
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