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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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Warsaw Pact Self-Propelled Artillery Figure 13 240-mm SP Mortar, 203-mm SP Gun, 152-mm SP Howitzer, 122-mm SP Howitzer, M-1975* M-1975* M-1973 M-1974 Onboard ammunition Unknown Unknown 40 40 o (rounds) Maximum range (m) 12,000 28,000-30,000 17,300 15,300 Weight (metric tons) 25 30 27 17 Length (m) 7.4 10.0 8.4 7.4 Cruising range (km) 500 500 500 500 Year operational 1977 1975 1973 1974 *Artists' concepts based on limited information. These weapons are believed to be nuclear capable. 579014 4.7cu
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