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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.

  • p. 7 …option at the outset of war. -- - The deployment of large numbers of these advanced fighters also…
  • p. 21 …Rigid Soviet employment con- deploying advanced F-15s and additional F-l Is.cepts in the…
  • p. 29 …Participants;The initial air defense operation would to anticipate far enough in advance the approximateinvolve more…
  • p. 36 …o the new Blackjack could be more useful in penetrating NATO's technically advanced air defenses…
  • p. 48 …two hours before the front air forces and the NATO's technically advanced air defense system…
  • p. 49 …case, the Scuds may have been deployed forward to keep pace with the other advancing front…
  • p. 62 …or at NATO reserves advancing toward the drop zones. least until the front main forces have…
  • p. 65 …aircraft in the Western TMO probably would with the advancing ground forces of the coastal front…
  • p. 68 Top Secret - The deployment of large numbers of these advanced Introduce jam-resistant communications that could…
  • p. 70 …army groups and an advance to a particular commands. At the apex of this command pyramid…
  • p. 72 …the defeat of the main forces of specific opposing NATO army corps and an advance to…
  • p. 78 …also includes the Baltic Fleet air forces and the they were researching more advanced ways to…
  • p. 91 …The Soviet term for the branch of the cal-level forces and the provision of substantial…
Top Secret
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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