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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 et Selected Soviet Sea-Launched Cruise Missiles Figure II-21a Maximum system Payload (kg) Speed range (km)* Guidance Launch platform IOC SS-N-2a 515 HE Mach 0.9 35-40 Radar or IR Osa and Komar 1959 PTG SS-N-2b 515 HE Mach 0.9 35-40 Radar or IR Osa PTG 1964 SS-N-2c 330 HE Mach 0.9 83 Radar or IR Osa PTG 1975 Mod Kildin DD Mod Kashin DDG SS-N-3a 1,000 HE Mach 1.4 410 Radar 1 SSG 1962 or nuclear E-Il SSGN SS-N-3b Mod 1 1,000 HE Mach 1.5 410 Radar Kynda CG 1962 The coastal defense version of this or nuclear Kresta I CG missile is called the SS-C-1b. SS-N-3b Mod 2 1,000 HE Mach 1.5 410 Radar Kresta I CG 1977 or nuclear SS-N-3c Nuclear Mach 1.2 830 Autopilot/inertial W SSG 1962 E-l SSGN (poss) J SSG (poss) SS-N-7 500 HE Mach 0.9 65 Radar C-I SSGN 1968 or nuclear C-IISSGN SS-N-9 500 HE Mach 0.9 110 Radar and IR Nanuchka PGG 1971 or nuclear Sarancha PGGH LD C-Il SSGN P SSGN SS-N-12 1,000 HE Mach 2.4 550 Radar E-ll SSGN 1976 or nuclear Kiev CVSG SS-N-14 E45-70A Mach 0.9 55 Active/passive Krivak FFG 1974 Data insufficient for drawing. or acoustic Kresta II CG E45-75A Kara CG Torpedo 'This is the maximum distance that the missile can travel and still effectively engage a target. In many cases, the missiles have a greater propulsion range but are not considered effective in an antiship role. 579024 .s cm 11-34 lop rt
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