SHIELD-82 ACTIVITY (SANITIZED)

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• Document Creation Date: December 28, 2016
• Document Release Date: June 9, 2010
• Sequence Number: 1
• Publication Date: September 27, 1982
• Content Type: REPORT

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3 JOINT NAVAL ACTIVITY
4 ROMANIAN RIVER MONITORS
5 DEFENSIVE MISSILE POSITION
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FIVE PART GRAPHIC
"SHIELD-82" ACTIVITY
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1. (SWN) SIGNIFICANCE: THE JOINT WARSAW PACT EXERCISE "SHIELD-82"
HAS BEGUN.
2. (SWN) REMARKS: A JOINT NAVAL EXERCISE INVOLVING BULGARIAN AND
SOVIET NAVAL UNITS IS UNDERWAY JUST OFF THE COAST OF BULGARIA
IN THE BLACK SEA. NAVAL ACTIVITY IS OBSERVED AT VARNA AND
BALCHIK, BULGARIA AND GIURGIU, ROMANIA. AT VEKILSKI AIRFIELD A
DEFENSIVE MISSILE SITE IS NEWLY IDENTIFIED AND AT TOLBUKHIN
AIRFIELD ELEMENTS OF THE FLOGGER REGIMENT AND THE POLISH
TRANSPORT REGIMENT REMAIN.
(SWN) AT VARNA PORT FACILITIESI AT LEAST TEN
NAVAL COMBATANTS INCLUDING THE SOVIET KIEV-CLASS GUIDED MISSILE
V/STOL AIRCRAFT CARRIER (CVHG) (GRAPHIC 2), TWO RIGA FRIGATES
(FF), THREE POTI PATROL ESCORTS (PG), AND FOUR VANYA-II COASTAL
(GRAPHIC 3). TWO SOVIET NANUCHKA-I GUIDED MISSILE PATROL
MINESWEEPERS (MSC) ARE DEPARTING.
(SWN) AT BALCHIK COASTAL DEFENSE FORCE BASE L
COMBATANTS, THREE SOVIET OSA-II MISSILE ATTACK BOATS (PTG), TWO
PROBABLE SOVIET OSA-I PTG, AND TWO SHERSHEN TORPEDO BOATS ARE
AT THIS FACILITY. ONE BULGARIAN MESAR CLASS REPLENISHMENT
OILER (AOR) AND TWO LIGHT OILERS ARE OFFSHORE. THE COMBATANTS
WERE PRESENT AS EARLY THE AOR HAD
DEPARTED VARNA NAVAL B _
THE NORMAL ORDER-OF-BATTLE AT THIS FACILITY
INCLUDES ONE TO FIVE BULGARIAN PO-2 PATROL BOATS.
(SWN) IN POSSIBLE REACTION TO THE "SHIELD-82" JOINT WARSAW
PACT EXERCISE SEVENTEEN 32-METER RIVER MONITORS/SMALL
COMBATANTS (GRAPHIC 4) ARE AT GIURGIU SHIPYARD, ROMANIA
THESE UNITS ARE NOT NORMALLY OBSERVED HERE.
GIURGIU IS ACROSS THE DANUBE RIVER FROM RUSE PORT COMPLEX,
BULGARIA
(SWU) A PROBABLE DEFENSIVE MISSILE POSITION (GRAPHIC 5) IS
JUST NORTHEAST OF VEKILSKI AIRFIELD THE
DEFENSIVE MISSILE POSITION CONSISTS OF 27 REVETMENTS
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FIVE PART GRAPHIC
INTERLOCKED WITH TRENCHES. FOUR OF THE REVETMENTS ARE OCCUPIED
WITH LARGE CANVAS-DRAPED VEHICLES. THREE OTHER GROUPINGS OF
CANVAS-DRAPED VEHICLES AND THREE SUPPORT VEHICLES ARE ALSO
PRESENT. IN ADDITION, AN ARTILLERY BATTALION WITH THREE
CANVAS-DRAPED ARTILLERY BATTERIES IS NORTH-NORTHEAST OF THE
AIRFIELD, NO AIRCRAFT ARE PRESENT.
(SWN) AT TOLBUKHIN AIRFIELD (GRAPHIC 1), 25X1
ELEMENTS OF THE FLOGGER REGIMENT THE POLISH TRANSPORT
REGIMENT ARE STILL PRESENT. AIR ORDER-OF-BATTLE CONSISTS OF
27 FLOGGER, 15 COKE/CURL, TWO CRUSTY, ONE CODLING, AND FOUR
CRATE. THE BIVOUAC ASSOCIATED WITH THE TRANSPORT REGIMENT IS
STILL PRESENT. TWENTY LIGHT UTILITY TRUCKS, ASSOCIATED WITH
POLISH AIRBORNE UNITS, ARE IN CONVOY ON A. NEARBY DIRT ROAD.
(SWN) AT KARLOVO ARMY BARRACKS 1 (GRAPHIC 1), 25X1
TWO CONVOYS OF 16 AND 15 TRUCKS EACH ARE FORMING IN FRONT OF
THE STORAGE SHEDS. A CONVOY OF 16 TRUCKS AND EIGHT UAZ-69
UTILITY VEHICLES WAS ON A PARADE FIELD ON AND 25X1
HAD DEPARTED A NORMAL LOW LEVEL OF 25X1
ACTIVITY IS OBSERVED IN THE OTHER SECTIONS OF THE GARRISON.
3. BE 11/A, COORDINATES N/A
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