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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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Note: These assessments assume ihat the Backfire flies a straight-line unrefueled mission with bombs, is on an optimum high-altitude
flight profile to and from the vicinity of the target area, but flies the last 200 nm to and from the target at a subsonic speed at low level.
The figures cited here are different from those representing the subsonic, high-altitude missions depicted in figure ll-30b.
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