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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.
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o t 'Table B-5 Selected Soviel Surface Combatants and Carriers by Fleet Area a January 1979 Northern Baltic Black Sea b Pacific Total Aircraft Carriers Kiev CVSG 1 - 2 Helicopter Ships Moskva CIG - - 2 -- 2 Missile Cruisers Kynda CG ............ 2 2 4 Kresta-I CC . 3- - 4 Kresta-I CG .............................. 6 1 - 3 10 Kara CG 6 6 Sverdlov CG .......-- - 1 Total .. ......... ................. 9 1 9 6 25 Cruisers Chapayev CL - 1 - -- 1 Sverdlov CL 2 2 2 3 9 Total .... 2 3 2 3 10 Missile Destroyers Kanin DDG 3 1 - 3 7 Kashin DDG - 1 9 4 14 Mod Kashin DDG 2 1 2 - 5 Kotlin DDG 1 1 3 2 7 Kildin DDG -- - Total 6 4 14 10 34 Destroyers Kotlin/Mod Kotlin DD. 3 2 3 6 14 Skoryy/Mod Skoryy DD 3 4 7 5 .19 Mod Kildin DD ... ......... ......... ]2 3 total ... ........................ ...... 6 7 12 11 36 Missile Frigates Krivak 1/11 F G 5 11 3 5 24 Total . 5 11 3 5 - 24 Frigates Kola FF .- - 1 - 1 Mirka FFL - 14 6 - 20 Petya-l FFL 3 2 3 3 11 Pctya-II FFL 1 - 5 11 27 Mod Petya-l FFL .......... ............ 3 1 1 3 - 8 liga FF 8.................................. 8 5 8 11 32 Koni FF - t - 2 Grisha FFL/WFFL .5 14 9 38 Total 40 23 39 37 139 Total Principal Surface Combatants 69 49 82 72 272 Does not include ships in reserve status but does include ships undergoing short- or long-term overhaul or conversion and on sea trials. t Includes one Kola and two Rigas assigned to the Caspian Sea Flotilla. Expected to transfer to Pacific Fleet. B-10 Top e
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