Atlantic fleet, was formed to develop tactics and eval. Senior naval member, weapon systems evaluation group. Welcome to the cia web site central intelligence agency. Intelligence and analysis during the cold war central. More than russias sole aircraft carrier is in bad shape. Handbook on soviet ground forces, army field manual fm 3040. The navy is also going through a major transition from the legacy soviet navy to a russian navy that should reflect the latest achievements of russian advances in science and technology, the. Russia is not the soviet union but it has the same navy nightmares by robert farley follow drfarls on twitter l key point. United statesrussian federation incidents at sea and.
Two decades of upheaval introduction major innovations have changed the shape of soviet military doctrine over the past decade. Documents in pdf format require the adobe acrobat reader. Soviet military balance was not bad from our standpoint in 1960. Life aboard a soviet destroyer and a soviet submarine. They are treated like genuine military recruits from the start, so a visit to the. United statessoviet military balance every crs report. Russia is not the soviet union but it has the same navy. Know and teach customs and traditions, understand naval history. This collection of documents, spanning three decades from the 1960s to the 1980s, focus on cias collection and analysis of the soviet navy. Before 1966, it was classified as air defense ships, asw, from 1966 to 1977, all four of the. Soviet navy, howeverlargely because fleet admiral of the soviet union sergey gorshkov, commanderinchief of the soviet navy for almost 30 years, wanted to keep what he had builtmany of the soviet navy s submarines, surface ships, and auxiliaries had long outlived their usefulness, but were retained to maintain impressive numbers. Soviet naval activity in the pacific during the cold war.
Pdf the rise of the soviet navy, a revisited western. Theses and dissertations thesis collection 196805 the changing role of the soviet navy. Their effects on the soviet navy s stra tegic employment concepts and on its operational art have been discussed at length in the west for several years now. The rise of the soviet navy, a revisited western view. Actions counter to navy s retentionreenlistment goals. The dramatic growth of the soviet navy during the next two decades ranked as one of the most significant developments, militarily, in the post war era. Uninvolved with mentoring or professional development of subordinates. In addition, this collection is a continuation of previous releases on the warsaw pact forces available at cia analysis of warsaw pact forces and soviet and warsaw pact military journals and adds 82 newly released documents ranging from translation of. Kresta i class type missile cruisers soviet military the navy. Soviet navy and its military posture during the cold war. I intend to submit a statement do not intend to submit a statement navpers 161627 810 for official use onlyprivacy act sensitive. The series of articles entitled navies in war and peaceby soviet navy commander inchief.
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