The below comes from those "
rediscovered" folders that cover all the threads I started a longtime ago. These
predate my current PC and when I was using Mozilla Firefox. I mentioned these not long ago because I found equipment that
never got submitted for the game.
This ref. was written by then (
Summer of 1980.) Paul F. Gorman Major General, USA. Released in
March 2004 (Still redacted.) by whom not sure. And a final release by the
CIA on July 29, 2014.
This assessment is from the
prospective of the USA. It
DOES NOT paint a "
pretty picture" of our capabilities against Russian Armor. From similar documents on the topic from the
CIA's own assessments (That I posted in the forum somewhere several years back.)
one of the reasons the Soviets never attacked
NATO was though they recognized their armor advantage, they felt it was negated by NATO's
perceived advantage in high quality
ATGW's.
We just did a good job of keeping
our mouths shut.
The first ref. is a cleaner larger font article from the above mentioned
2014 release. Stay with this one, however, read the notes of the below one-please.
https://www.cia.gov/library/readingr...0000624298.pdf
The next is the
2004 release. It's the one I had in those files. Posting it because some of the graphs are easier to read i.e.
Page 7 graphs are better here then in the above version.
https://www.cia.gov/library/readingr...0001066239.pdf
Notice the document numbers are different on reach release.
This is a
very interesting read if you wish to do so.
Regards,
Pat
