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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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Nominal Flight Profiles of Selected Soviet Sea-Launched Cruise Missiles Figure II-21b Altitude (m) 18,000 16,000 SS-N-12 14.000 12.000 10,000 8.000 - - - - SS-N-3b 6,000 Mod 1 - - SS-N-3a 4,000 -- -- - 4.000SS- N-3b - - - -Mod - 2,000 SS-N-3c 500 400 300 200 100 0 Target Range (km) 579025 w, cu missiles while submerged. The C-I fires the rines with the SS-N-12 system also can receive SS-N-7 missile to a maximum range of 35 nauti- initial target data directly from ELINT and cal miles (65 kin). The C-1I probably fires the radar satellites. Additional E-IIs are being modi- SS-N-9 missile to a maximum range of 60 nm fied, presumably to carry the SS-N-12. (110 km). Both missiles are guided by a preset - Twelve J-class diesel-powered submarines, each autopilot. The SS-N-7 uses active radar terminal with four SS-N-3a missiles. Like the E-IIs, the homing and the SS-N-9 uses a dual mode seeker, J-class submarines require external targeting sup- with active radar and infrared (IR) terminal port and must surface to fire their missiles. homing, - A single P-class nuclear-powered submarine Fifteen E-II-class nuclear-powered submarines, probably was designed to fire 10 missiles while each carrying eight, surface-launched, long' submerged, but we are uncertain whether the range missiles. Most E-Us carry the 220-nm (410- P-class has been equipped with missiles. The km) SS-N-3a missile. To date at least two of these missile system for the P-class has not been identi- submarines have been converted to fire the 300- fied, although it may be the SS-N-9. nm (555-km) SS-N-12. Both missiles use active In addition to antiship cruise missile submarines there radlar terminal homing and midcourse targeting are also five obsolescent W-class submarines equipped information to enhance accuracy. Those subma- with the inertially guided SS-N-3c missile which was 11-35
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