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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 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) link se 579017 4.7 cu 11-9 Top bere
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FOIA release, from the cia-readingroom collection. The PDF is mirrored here; the original link is above. 201 pages are in the text index: search them above, or from the library's search.