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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.
Top SeCret Participants 42 Ballistic Missiles and Nuclcar Artillery 42 Strategic Aviation 43 -Front Aviatton 44 Execution 46 Timing 46 Nuclear Alert Forces 46 Strike cquence 4 Problems of the Air Forces 49- Other Air Force Roles in Direct Support ofStrategic Operations 49 Subsequent Air Operations 50 Participants 50 Execution 50 -- - Potential Problems }1 Major Airborne Landing Operations 51 Participants 51 i Execution 53 Potential Problems 53 Amphibious Landing Operations 53 Participants 55 Execution 56 Potential Problems 56 Strategic Air Reconnaissance 56 Participants5 Execution 5 -Potential Problems 58. Observations 5 Appendixes-- A. The Joint Forces Command Structure and the Roles of Air Forces 61 iFront and Army Operations B. ~Use of the Smolensk Strategic Ai rmy in the Western Thcater of 65 Military Operations CForce Ratio Analysis 69 DGlossary of Terms 81 Tord\Secretvii
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FOIA release, from the cia-readingroom collection. The PDF is mirrored here; the original link is above. 95 pages are in the text index: search them above, or from the library's search.