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Warsaw Pact Air Forces: Support of Strategic Operations in Central Europe, CIA/DI/SOVA Intelligence Assessment, January 1985.

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This Central Intelligence Agency Directorate of Intelligence assessment, dated January 1985, examines how Warsaw Pact air forces would support large strategic operations in Central Europe. It concludes that the Soviets see NATO air power as the greatest threat to a Pact ground offensive. They revised their air supremacy plans in 1980 and 1981 to use sector-concentrated raids and a defensive air operation. The assessment also finds that heavy aircraft losses and limited deep attack capability would remain serious problems. The document has no UFO content.

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Figure 2
Typical Force Composition in the Western Theater
of Military Operations
E Forces with Soviet Air forces or non-Soviet
Warsaw Pact air forces components
Forces with aviation components that
are not part of the air forces
Hligh Command
Commander in Chief
High Command Staff
Ground Forces Air Forces Navy Air Defense Strategic RocketStall Staff Staff Forces Staff Forces Stat
Forces in Place
Polish-GDR Legnica Baltic Polish National Air
Front Air Army Fleet 'Defense Forces
GSFG-GDR
Front - AD
Czechoslovak Czechosova
COF Front -elNAD
Reinfrcement Forces
Airborne Belorussian Smolensk - SSBN Western Military ; SRFDivisions Front Air Army_ Strikes District Fighters ;y Strikes
Carpathian - Vnnitsa -
Front Air Army
Baltic Moscow
Front Air Army
L Military
. Transport--
Aviation
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