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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 Warsaw Pact Fighter-Bomber Aircraft Figure 11-14 Year Maximum Representative NATO* operational speed (knots) - fuel/weapons/payloads mission profile Fuel Fuel Bomb, rocket or (radius in nm) (kg) tanks TASM loads Hi-Lo-Hi Lo-Lo-Hi Lo-Lo-Lo SU-17 Fitter D 1976 1,205 3,730 0 8x500-kg bombs 300 175 135 Mach 2.1 3,730 0 20x100-kg bombs 330 180 135 5,060 2 6x500-kg bombs 530 290 210 5,060 2 ECM pod and 595 320 225 96x57-mm rockets 5,060 2 4xAS-10 TASMs 580 300 215 MIG-27 Flogger D 1975 975 4,365 0 4x500-kg bombs 380 225 170 Mach 1.7 6,360 3 4x500-kg bombs 620 350 250 SU-24 Fencer A 1974 1,435 9,080 0 7x1,000-kg bombs 540 285 205 Mach 2.5 14,925 2 10x250-kg bombs 980 515 340 9,980 0 4xAS-10 TASMs 685 325 225 .14,925 2 4xAS-10 TASMs 1,075 530 400 13,290 2 2xAS-9 TASMs 935 460 315 The Central Intelligence Agency believes that the operational assumptions basic to the NATO Mission Profile Hi-Lo-Hi def- inition are extremely optimistic and produce combat radius es- timates which cannot be achieved under wartime conditions. CIA believes that the combat radii associated with.the Lo-Lo-Hi definitions are much more in line with Warsaw Pact estimates of the combat radius capability of Pact aircraft and are in fact a more realistic reflection of Pact intentions concerning the use of these aircraft. 579019 n cu 11-24
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