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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. 6 'op\Secret %writingsindicate that the newly created wartime theater high command headquarters was designated as the…
  • 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…
Figure 17
The Place of Soviet Air Forces Components in
the Joint Forces Wartime Command Structure
Level of Command
Strategic Supreme
High Command
General Staff
Strategic Rocket Ground Forces Navy Staff Air Forces Air Defense
Forces StafTf Stafr ~St-ar Forces AirtDfenefStStaocerSar
SRF Armies Airborne SSBN Squadrons Strategic AntiballisticDivisions and Flotillas Air Armies Missile Army
Military Antisatellite
Transport Army
Aviation
----- Air Defense
Districts and
Theater Armies
High Command
SRF Staf GF Staff Navy Star AF Sta( ADF Staff
Operadonal-Strategic Fleet Fronts and Strategic
Military Districts Air Armies
Operational Front/MD Front/MD Front ADF
Missile and AF
Artillery Forces
Combined-Arms
and Tank Armies
Tactical Army MAF Army Army Army ADF
Aviation Force
Motorized Rifle
and Tank Divisions
MMiso Division Division
MAP AAF ADF
MR/T
Regiments
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