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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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Selected Mobile Air Defense Systems in Warsaw Pact Ground Forces Figure 11-5 SA-4 SA-6 SA-8 SA-9 Range (km) Minimum 10 4 1 1.5 Maximum * 27 12 6.0 Altitude (m) Minimum 100 25 50 15 Maximum 20,000 10,000-12,000 10,000 3,600 Guidance system Command Semiactive homing Command Infrared homing Transporter Tracked Tracked Wheeled Wheeled (launcher) (2 missiles) (3 missiles) (4 or 6 missiles) (4 missiles) Year operational 1967 1970 1974 (4 missiles) 1968 1978 (6 missiles) 'There is disagreement over whether the maximum range of the SA-4 is 50 or 80 kilometers. 579016 -9 c- signed for use against helicopters and other slow-flying formed. Considering the relative ineffectiveness of aircraft. The SA-9 missile is also an infrared system these AA systems, we are as yet unable to determine but has a greater range than the SA-7 and is carried the mission of the divisions. aboard a modified amphibious scout car. It is deployed along with the ZSU-23-4 AA system as part of a 27. Antitank Weapons. The Soviet arsenal of regimental air defense battery. The extent to which antitank weapons includes both guided missiles and these systems have been deployed as replacements for artillery. (See figure II-6.) Antitank guided missiles older AA systems is difficult to determine. We assume (ATGMs) are heliborne, vehicle mounted, and man that all Pact forces have been equipped with the SA-7. portable. Improved models of the radio-controlled The SA-9 and ZSU-23-4 are probably with the regi- AT-2 Swatter and wire-guided AT-3 Sagger with ments of all combat-ready tank and motorized rifle semiautomatic guidance are mounted on modified divisions and with approximately 30 percent of re- scout cars and helicopters. The Sagger can also be duced-strength or cadre divisions. mounted on the BMP and BMD and is available in a manpack version. Some first-generation Swatters and 26. The Soviets recently began forming antiaircraft Saggers are still in service. Three new ATGM sys- divisions in the USSR which may be similar to their tems are also being deployed with Soviet forces. The AA units of the World War II type. At least one of AT-4 Spigot man-portable ATGM, the AT-5 Span- these units has been identified in COMINT, and drel vehicle-mounted system, and the AT-6 Spiral additional units have been reported by human sources. heliborne system have all been observed recently A minimum of 200 pieces of antiaircraft artillery has with the Soviet forces in East Germany. The vehicle- been observed at each of eight installations in the mounted system, suitable also for helicopter mounts, USSR, suggesting that additional divisions may be has a nonretractable launch rack with five launching Il-8 Top t
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