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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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lop eret (ASW). Table 11-7 and figure I119 show the current Soviet Naval Forces Figure li-19 size, composition, and trends in Pact general purpose Opposite NATO, 1969 and 1979 naval forces. Three Soviet Western Fleetsa 102. If the Soviets were not concerned with covert deployment of their ships to sea, they could probably Cruise Missile and Torpedo Attack Submarines get about half of theii force opposite NATO under way with varying degrees of combat effectiveness 236 Nuclear within 48 hours. Those remaining units not undergoing 13 SSN major repairs or overhaul probably could put to sea in 178 about four days, but would do so with reduced Nuclear effectiveness. Naval air units normally maintain a low Diesel 26 SSGN level of peacetime activity; most could reach full 21 SSG Table II-7 G Warsaw Pact General Purpose Naval Forces SS Opposite NATO a January 1979 1969 1979 Soviet b NSWP Total Major Surface Combatants .- --- 97 1 Aircraft Carrier General Purpose Submarines - -- 2 Helicopter Cruise Missile Units 43 - 43 77 2 Helicopter Cruisers Torpedo Attack Units 135 8 143 / Cruisers Cruisers Principal Surface Combatants Cruisers Aircraft Carriers 1 c -- Helicopter Ships 2 - 2 Destroyers Cruisers 26 - 26 Destroyers Destroyers 49 1 50 Missile Frigates 19 - 19 Frigates 102 4 106 Selected Minor Surface 1969 1979 Combatants a 278 85 363 Tonnage of Major Surface Combatantsb Amphibious Ships 66 34 100 614,500 Selected Support Ships c 85 4 89 ,. Aircraft Carriers Naval Aircraft r Helicopter Reconnaissance/EW Aircraft 84 10 94 442,500 Cruisers Strike Aircraft 254 - 254 Helicopter Cruisers Tankers 56 - 56 Fighters/Fighter,-Bormbers 71 52 123 Cruisers ASW Fixed-Wing Aircraft 105 - 105 ASW/Reconnaissance Helicopters 164 48 212 Destroyers Destroyers a The NSWP navies and the Soviet forces assigned to the North- ern, Baltic, and Black Sea Fleets. Detailed order-of-battle data for these and Soviet Pacific Fleet naval forces are contained in tables B- 1969 1979 4, B-5, and B-6 in annex B. 6 Figures exclude some 100 attack submarines and 30 principal surface combatants kept in reserve status, c A second Kiev-class aircraft carrier is operational in the Black vExcludes reserve units. Sea, but we believe it will deploy to the Pacific Fleet. bCombatants over 3,000 tons, excluding reserve units. d Patrol combatants, mine-warfare ships, and missile-equipped coastal patrol craft. e Oilers, replenishment oilers, missile tenders, repair ships, and 577630 1-79 CIA submarine tenders. Iin addition, these are about 120 transport aircraft and 105 transport helicopters which support Soviet Naval Aviation. 11-30 Top 'eem t
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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.