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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.
“The Advance”13 pages
- 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…
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