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- p. 11 …Forces in the Moscow, volga, Ural, and Turkestan Military Districts could be used against NATO
or…
- p. 27 …initiate such use, although the possibility cannot be entirely
excluded. DIA, NSA, Army, Navy, and Air…
- p. 28 …DIA and Navy estimate that six
to 10 reserve submarines could be brought to operational status…
- p. 29 …CIA, State, NSA, and Navy
estimate that the performance characteristics, deployment patterns,
training programs, and exercise…
- p. 30 …DIA, NSA, Army, Navy, and Air Force hold that the Soviets
might choose to attack with…
- p. 31 …Likelihood of Soviet Use of Nuclear Weapons at Sea Before
Their Use on Land. Navy judges…
- p. 56 Aviation (VTA) were used simultaneously, only one increasing amount of complex equiprnent entering the
fully equipped…
- p. 70 …but Aeroflot's 160 AN-12s could be used to lift heavy During peacetime, these Cubs…
- p. 79 designed primarily for use against large-area targets, and speeds and maximum ranges of from 80…
- p. 82 …The Pact navies must seek out
Bear D aircraft. The Kiev can also receive targeting Western…
- p. 84 …The
Pact countries can concentrate ASW forces and use Pact navies maintain the bulk of their…
- p. 85 …NATO
placed on resources by the Soviet Navy's other mis- decision not to deploy carrier…
- p. 87 …Thus the Pact would German Navies are capable of transporting less than
probably commit few bombers…
- p. 88 …As of 1975, however,
weapons are also carried by many of the Soviet Navy's only…
- p. 90 …that the expanded use of Frontal Aviation is regarded
as only a partial solution to the…
- p. 92 …submarines would be likely to be used to strike targets
in NATO Europe, and the 150…
- p. 96 …long-range bomber with the capability to strike US From Liepaja, G-II class submarines fitted…
- p. 100 …the Directorof Naval Intelligence,
Department of the Navy.
The longer range and radius values in the…
- p. 113 …Aboard
ship the Soviets currently use a scheduled inspection
249. The Soviet Navy has the capability…
- p. 114 …In addition, the Navy has the
option of using merchant communications circuits for
command and control…
- p. 115 …In addition, the Soviet Navy could station an there, railroads and poor-quality highways extend to…
- p. 122 …Some common computer programs are
being used for logistics and battle management sup-
13. In wartime…
- p. 145 Top
Table IV-4
Warsaw Pact General Purpose Naval Forces Estimated To Be Available for Use…
- p. 146 …German some extent by a shuttle using conventional landing
Navies, plus mobilized merchant ships. Assault forces…
- p. 147 …If the amphibious assaults sary to use far larger forces to escort convoys than
were canceled…
- p. 148 …Eastern Europe and the USSR by the US 6th
sweeping NATO's mines or of successfully…
- p. 152 …follow with strikes using air-to-surface missiles (ASMs),- The Bulgarian and Romanian Navies. Does not…
- p. 154 …Many have
air defense missiles which can be used in an antiship 143. Some believe " that…
- p. 156 …Soviet Northern Fleet would be used to available LRA and Navy bombers. But we do not…
- p. 158 …forces were optimized for maximum D-day impact,
however, the Soviet Navy would give NATO early…
- p. 159 …They probably
Missile Cruisers 6 would attempt to use these submarines to intercept
Cruisers ... 1
Missile…
- p. 164 …mansk area can be covered by the long-range cruise
missiles of the Soviet Navy's…
- p. 165 …and conventionally armed area air defense against US and UK attacking aircraft
missiles, thereby reducing the…
- p. 168 …the Soviets
would use aircraft mainly in battlefield strikes in close
proximity to Pact forces, presumably…
- p. 176 …This aircraft, which is optimized for short-haul Soviet Navy will produce a force with improved…
- p. 177 …titanium hulls are used, the operational depth limit
could reach about 600 meters. According to one…
- p. 179 …Soviet Navy
inventory of Polnoeny-class medium landing ships may also be planning to use the…
- p. 180 …The Soviet Navy needs a long-range SAM
mid-1980s. for defense beyond 20 nm, as…
- p. 186 …Nonetheless, the would view the presence of US carriers operating in
Soviets clearly regard the US…
- p. 187 …The Soviet Navy maintains a small force in the to Middle Eastern oil were to become…
- p. 188 …Cuban military contribution in support of
Navy also uses port facilities in Benin and Angola but…
- p. 200 …T s copy
is for the iormation and use of the recipient and of persons under…
Topee±
and surface search radars. (See figure 11-24.)
133. Other Soviet forces opposite NATO-desig,
nated primarily for coastal ASW-are much more
numerous, but their individual capabilities are gener-
ally poorer. These include about 155 minor surface
combatants with sonars, about 45 short- and medium-
range diesel submarines, nearly 60 short-range fixed-
' The holders of this vice are the Central Intelligence Agency wing ASW aircraft, and about 100 shore-based ASW
and the Director, National Security Agency. helicopters. In addition, the Polish, East German, and
to a lesser degree the Bulgarian and Romanian Navies
have a variety of units which are trained for coastal
Selected Soviet Aircraft , Figure 11-24 ASW defense and are being integrated into the com-
for Antisubmarine Warfare bined Pact fleets in the Baltic and Black Seas.
IL-38 May TU-142 Bear F
bottom iew
Year operational 1968 1971 135. Effective ASW depends in part on Pact sur-
veillance capabilities, which, outside coastal waters,
Payload (kg) Sonobuoys, Sonobuoys, are extremely limited. This limitation is primarily
torpedoes, and torpedoes, and caused by Soviet failure to develop long-range under-
depth chargesb depth chargesh sea surveillance systems. Soviet efforts to achieve such
(5,400) (8,500) a capability would, in any event, he constrained
Maximum radiusa 1,350 2,050 or 3,150c because the Pact lacks sites from which major Western
(nm) naval operating areas could be monitored. Further-
more, if the Soviets were to emplace an underwater
a. Radius values include allowance for three hours of loiter time surveillance system on Pact territory, its effectiveness
on station, would be limited because the waters along Pact shores
are for the most part shallow and therefore unsuitable
for carrying sounds over long distances.
c. See paragraphs 131 and 132 of chapter II for differing agency
views on the radius of the Bear F. 20 The holders of this view are the Director, Defense Intelli-
gence Agency, the Director of Naval Intelligence, Department of
the Navy; and the Assistant Chief of Staff, Intelligence, Depart-
5902 ,, u nmentof the Air Force.
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