CIA STUDY ON SOVIET MILITARY AIRCRAFT MAINTENANCE

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP80B01554R003300180053-3
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: S
• Document Page Count: 1
• Document Creation Date: December 16, 2016
• Document Release Date: January 27, 2005
• Sequence Number: 53
• Publication Date: January 4, 1980
• Content Type: MF

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Central Intelligence Agency
4 January 1980
MEMORANDUM FOR: General Lew Allen, Jr., USAF
Chief of Staff, United States Air Force
Admiral Thomas B. Hayward, USN
Chief of Naval Operations
SUBJECT: CIA Study on Soviet Military Aircraft
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1. Several months ago our Office of Strategic Research completed
what I believe is an interesting study on Soviet military aircraft
maintenance (attached). Your staffs may already have brought this
your attention, but I just wanted to ensure that that was the case
2. The implications of this study as I see them are:
a. The Soviet system for maintaining their aircraft is
extremely expensive--hence, they get less bang for their
buck, at least in this department.
b. Through a combination of frequent maintenance and
low operating rates, the Soviet air force regularly has a
high rate of equipment readiness. Concomitantly, because
of their low operating rates their personnel readiness must
be low and, hence, one would assume they have a low rate
of total system operational readiness--that is, unless we
overtrain our people.
c. The oviet air force is riot prepared for prolonged
combat.
STANSFIELD TURNER
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