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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.
“Headquarters”10 pages
Top-Secret Contents Page Key Judgments Background The Western Theater of Military Operations Air Forces Participation 3 - _Front Air Forces 3 Strategic Air Armies 7 Other Air Forces Combat Potential 7 Strategic Operations 7 Air Forces Missions 8 Attaining Air Supremacy Concept Development Emergence of the Initial Air Operation II Problems With the Initial Air Operation 12 -_ _ Development of the Initial Air Defense Operation 13 Rccent Changes in the Iai~aa A Opeation !4 The Initial Air Defense Operation 16 Planning 16 -_- Participants 20 Execution 22 Potential Problems 25 The Initial Air Operation 27 Participants 27 Location and Timing of Attacks 33 Airfield Attacks 34 Air-to-Air and Antiship Activity 35 Attacks Against Surface-to-Surface Missiles 35 Air Defense Suppression 36 Execution Sequence 37 _ - Potential Problems 37 The Initial Massed Nuclear Strike 39 Planning 40 The Nuclear Strike Demarcation Line 40 _ Strike Responsibilities 42 vii To Scec
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