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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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- p. 10 …appendix D
wartime of high command headquarters in the most
important TMOs as extensions of the…
- p. 23 …of the initial aircommand, front, and army headquarters, to allow operation also emphasizes the need to…
- p. 31 …be
conducted under the direction of the headquarters of the Sovict Air
Defense Forces in Moscow…
- p. 35 …increasingly difficult a large number of cooperating headquarters. It would
problem for the Pact air defense…
- p. 49 …day during a rapidly
presumably high command headquarters would plan moving Pact offensive. Thus, for example…
- p. 90 …protection for aviation formations and army aviation headquarters
airborne and amphibious operations and for strike elements…
- p. 91 …Front air forces headquarters and corps-size groupings of tactical-level forces. Oper-
would coordinate and…
- p. 93 …Tactical forces
ducted for the General Staff and the TMO high have headquarters staffs of limited…
- p. 94 …Intelligence collection per-
formed for ground army and division headquarters,
primarily to support the planning and…
Directorate of T Scret
Intelligence
Warsaw Pact Air Forces:
Support of Strategic Operations
in Central Europe
An Intelligence Assessment
TopSecret
S0V85,(000C'X
January 1985
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