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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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Top Characteristics of Soviet Intermediate-Range Bombers Figure I-29a 4'°' r 1 :" 4i k.' i ~Di i 1 "'1 ; , There are only about 20 aircraft configured as tankers in the intermediate-range bomber force. In the past, the Soviets have made little use of this limited capability; in the case of the TU-22, aerial refueling has rarely been noted. *Based on subsonic flight at optimum cruise altitude. For jet aircraft, a general rule is that each mile flown at altitudes of 300 meters or less reduces combat radius by about 2 miles. For example an aircraft with a combat radius of 1,000 nm could fly only 600 nm if required to fly at an altitude of 100 meters for 200 nm (1,000-[2x2001-600); the first 400 nm would be flown at high-altitude cruise and the remaining 200 nm at low level. 5174219-78CIA - --- - 11-54
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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.