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Warsaw Pact Forces opposite NATO, NIE 11-14-79, Volume II, the Estimate, CIA/NFAC, 31 January 1979

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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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“Headquarters”14 pages

  • p. 20 …Unlike NATO, the Warsaw Pact does not have theater headquarters in being in peacetime, although hardened…
  • p. 21 …control of the Western and Southwestern TVD headquarters-often called High Commands by the Soviets. The…
  • p. 26 …links could be established to theater-level headquarters and to supporting strategic cornmands. Communications, between Moscow…
  • p. 35 …Surprise in the known: ' Soviet view can be achieved through many means- Administrative Structure HeadQuartered in…
  • p. 55 …The Soviets Headquarters in Moscow and are considered strategic maintain a total of 15 such divisions…
  • p. 72 …PO A ; re -t { - Black Sea Fleet ROMANI A -UGM (Dsevastopo - BUGRAFleet Caspian headquarters Black Sea…
  • p. 74 …Readiness from Naval Headquarters in Moscow, from fleet Home Waters 40 Operable headquarters,.or by command…
  • p. 114 …reported to fleet headquarters, a practice we did not 259. Forward Basing. To support their worldwide…
  • p. 117 …Some do not have Ground Forces headquarters; some have d. Not all have naval commands. Military…
  • p. 118 …in Soviet maritime strategy is the MTVD, headquarters in being in peacetime. Hardened com- the Maritime…
  • p. 119 …The headquarters staffs and communications after full mobilization; a more typical front would support elements of…
  • p. 122 …Representatives of the Headquarters of the 14. The Soviets intend to maintain centralized con- Warsaw Pact…
  • p. 182 …The number of older ballistic missile subma- links could be established to theater-level headquarters rincs…
  • p. 183 …communications system for use between major fixed headquarters. 108. Logistic Support. Improvements in the logis- tic…
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Selected Soviet Major Surface Combatants Figure |-23
Year operational Propulsion Armament
Kiev 1976 Steam 32-50 ASW/helicopters and V/STOL fighters
Aircraft carrier SS-N-12 antiship cruise missiles
SA-N-3 SAMs
SA-N-4 SAMs
SUW-N-1 ASW rockets
- _76-mm guns
Gatling guns
Probable torpedoes
RBU-6000 ASW rockets
Moskva 1968 Steam 16-24 ASW helicopters
Helicopter ship SA-N-3 SAMs
SUW-N-1 ASW rockets
57-mm guns
- Torpedoes
RBU-6000 ASW rockets
Kara 1972 Gas turbine SA-N-3 SAMs
Cruiser - SA-N-4 SAMs
SS-N-14 ASW missiles
u/i SAMs on 1 ship
76-mm guns
Gatling guns
Torpedoes
RBU-1000 and RBU-6000 ASW rockets
Kresta II 1970 Steam SA-N-3 SAMs
Cruiser SS-N-14 ASW missiles
57-mm guns
Torpedoes
RBU-1000 and RBU-6000 ASW rockets
Krivak 1970 Gas turbine SA-N-4 SAMs
Frigate SS-N-14 ASW missiles
76-mm, 100-mm guns
Torpedoes
RBU-6000 ASW rockets
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