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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.
Radius and Payload Capabilities of Selected Pact Tactical Aircraft* Figure 11-12 Air-to-Air Missions MIG-21 Fishbed D (I0C-1962) I One air-to-air missile MIG-21 Fishbed J (IOC-1968) MIG-23 Flogger B (IOC-1972) 1 I t t I I I I I 0 100 200 300 400 500 600 700 800 Flight Radius (nm) Ground Attack Missions MIG-17 Fresco A (IOC-1952) I One metric ton of bombs SU-7 Fitter A (IOC-1960) SU-17 Fitter C (IOC-1973) SU-24 Fencer A (I0C-1974) I I I I 1 I I I I 0 100 200 300 400 500 600 700 800 Flight Radius (nm) Flight radii shown for air-to-air missions were calculated using maximum missile loads and external fuel tanks. Flight radii shown for ground attack missions were calculated using maximum bomb loads which do not permit use of external fuel tanks. 578627 1-79 CIA 11-22 Top sZet
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