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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 Transport Aircraft Figure 11-17 AN-12 BP Cub IL-76T Candid AN-22 Cock q if Year operational 1959 1974 1967 Maximum payload (kg) 20,000 40,000 80,000 Cruise speed (knots) 320 415 355 Range with maximum 750 3,420 2,250 payload (nm) 579022 ,e c- Table 11-6 against NATO along the shores of and at the entrances NSWP National Air Defense Forces to these seas. For operations in the Mediterranean Sea, January 1979 the Black Sea Fleet furnishes most of the surface ships and the Northern Fleet the submarines. Fighter- SA-2 Sites SA-3 Sites Interceptors Force Composition and Readiness East Germany 24 4 270 101: Warsaw Pact general purpose naval forces Poland 36 12 330 include submarines, surface ships, and aircraft. The gslovakia 2 15 general purpose submarine force consists of cruise Romania 17 - 225 missile and torpedo attack submarines. The principal Bulgaria 18 7 65 surface combatants are about equally divided between Total 130 30 1,210 frigates and larger ships of missile frigate, destroyer, ota --3 - 30 120and cruiser size. The role of sea-based aircraft is SC clearly emerging in the Soviet Navy with the construe- tion of three Kiev-class aircraft carriers, following the NATO are from the Northern, Baltic, and Black Sea two Moskva-class helicopter ships which entered the Fleets. (See figure I-18.) The Northern Fleet carries inventory in the late 1960s. Smaller surface combat- the major burden of operations in the Barents and ants include mine warfare ships, submarine chasers, Norwegian Seas and in the Atlantic. The fleets in the and missile-armed patrol craft. Soviet Naval Aviation Baltic and Black Seas, together with navies of four (SNA) has three principal combat components distin- NSWP countries, are tailored primarily for control of guished by missions: antiship strike, reconnaissance those two seas and for the support of land operations and electronic warfare, and antisubmarine warfare 11-28 Top C3
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