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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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Table B-6 Soviet Naval Combat Aircraft, by Fleet Area January 1979 Northern Baltic Black Sea Pacific Total Aircraft for Reconnaissance/Electronic Warfare TU-95 Bear D b ......... ..... ............ 25 -- 20 45 TU-22 Blinder C - 3 3 - 6 TU-16 Badger D/E/F/K d 20 - -17 37 TU-16 Badger H/J e 11 9 7 12 39 AN-12 Cub B . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .. . . . . . 2 2 2 2 8 Total ............... 58 . 14 12 51 135 Strike Aircraft Backfire B . - 24 17 - 41 TU-16 Badger C 68 28 46 51 193 TU-16 Badger G 22 8 47 77 TU-22 Blinder A - 20 21 - 41 Total 68 94 92 98 352 Tankers TU-16 Badger 22 21 13 27 83 Fighters/Fighter-Bombers SU-17 Fitter C/D - 38 - - 38 YAK-36 Forger V/STOL 13 - 20 - 33 Total 13 38 20 - 71 ASW Fixed-Wing Aircraft BE-12 Mail . 22 12 25 34 93 IL-38 May 18 9 - 20 47 TU-142 Bear F 19 - - 12 31 Total .......... . 59 21 25 66 171 ASW/Beconnaissance Helicopters MI-4 Hound - - 5 5 MI-14 Haze ..... ... 16 16 - 12 44 KA-25 Hormone A .... .... .............. 34 10 70 38 152 KA-25 Hormone B b 6 5 7 8 26 Total ........ 56 31 77 63 227 Grand Total Naval Combat Aircraft . 276 219 239 305 1,039 Does not include some 70 aircraft of numerous types in a training role-primarily in Black Sea area (r about 120 transport aircraft and 105 transport helicopters which support Soviet Naval Aviation. b Configured for surface surveillance and target acquisition support for Soviet cruise missile ships and submarines. Configured for PHOTINT. d Configured for PHOTINT or ELINT. Configured for ECM. t Configured for SIGINT. 8 Carries bombs or one, two, and possibly three AS-4 ASMs. h Carries one AS-2 ASM, or 2 AS-5 or AS-6 ASMs. Carries bombs and/or two AS-5 or AS-6 ASMs. I Free-fall bombers only. k Carried aboard Kiev-class carriers. Amphibian. B-11 top ce-
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