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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.

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“Headquarters”14 pages

  • p. 20 …Unlike NATO, the Warsaw Pact does not have theater headquarters in being in peacetime, although hardened…
  • p. 21 …control of the Western and Southwestern TVD headquarters-often called High Commands by the Soviets. The…
  • p. 26 …links could be established to theater-level headquarters and to supporting strategic cornmands. Communications, between Moscow…
  • p. 35 …Surprise in the known: ' Soviet view can be achieved through many means- Administrative Structure HeadQuartered in…
  • p. 55 …The Soviets Headquarters in Moscow and are considered strategic maintain a total of 15 such divisions…
  • p. 72 …PO A ; re -t { - Black Sea Fleet ROMANI A -UGM (Dsevastopo - BUGRAFleet Caspian headquarters Black Sea…
  • p. 74 …Readiness from Naval Headquarters in Moscow, from fleet Home Waters 40 Operable headquarters,.or by command…
  • p. 114 …reported to fleet headquarters, a practice we did not 259. Forward Basing. To support their worldwide…
  • p. 117 …Some do not have Ground Forces headquarters; some have d. Not all have naval commands. Military…
  • p. 118 …in Soviet maritime strategy is the MTVD, headquarters in being in peacetime. Hardened com- the Maritime…
  • p. 119 …The headquarters staffs and communications after full mobilization; a more typical front would support elements of…
  • p. 122 …Representatives of the Headquarters of the 14. The Soviets intend to maintain centralized con- Warsaw Pact…
  • p. 182 …The number of older ballistic missile subma- links could be established to theater-level headquarters rincs…
  • p. 183 …communications system for use between major fixed headquarters. 108. Logistic Support. Improvements in the logis- tic…
Warsaw Pact Antitank Guilded Missiles Figure I-6
Takeoff Range (km) Guidance Ground Carrier/launch Helicopter Year
weight (kg) Minimum Maximum system mount vehicles mount operational
AT-1 Snapper 24 600 2,300 Manual No BRDM No 1958
wire-guided (3 mounts)
GAZ-69
(4 mounts)
AT-2a Swatter 29 500 2,500 Manual No BRDM No 1960
radio-guided (4 mounts)
AT-2b Swatter 29 500 3,500 Manual No BRDM Hind 1965
radio-guided (4 mounts) (4 mounts)
Hip
(4 mounts)
AT-2c 29 300 3,500 Manual No BRDM Hind Mid-1970s
Uprated Swatter radio-guided, (3 mounts) (4 mounts)
infrared Hip
terminal homing (6 mounts)
AT-3 Sagger 11 500 3,000 Manual Yes BRDM Hoplite 1961
wire-guided (6 mounts) (4 mounts)
BMP and BMD
(1 mount)
AT-3c 11 300 3,000 Semiautomatic Yes BRDM Hoplite 1968-70
Uprated Sagger (optical target (6 mounts) (4 mounts)
tracking infrared BMP and BMD Hip
missile tracking) (1 mount) (6 mounts)
wire-guided
AT-4 Spigot Unknown 70 2,000 Semiautomatic Yes Unknown Unknown 1973-75
wire-guided
AT-5 Spandrel Unknown 100 4,000 Semiautomatic Yes BRDM Possible 1974-76
wire or radio (5 mounts)
command link
AT-6 Spiral Unknown 100 5,000 Semiautomatic No Unknown Hind D 1974-76
radio command (4 mounts)
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