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Warsaw Pact Forces opposite NATO, NIE 11-14-79, Volume II, the Estimate, CIA/NFAC, 31 January 1979

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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.

  • p. 114 …recently halted Soviet air operations from Conakry. These developments will obviously force the 257. Many officers…
  • p. 115 …order to keep other in establishing effective air cover over supporting lines units operational. of communication…
  • p. 185 …The Soviets could elect to provide combat forces scale commitment of manpower and materiel which to…
  • p. 187 …This force is occasionally aug- forces could not be safely transported by sea or air to…
  • p. 188 …a war, but they couldsome naval and air force weapons (including a few recently introduced Flogger…
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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.
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