Soviet air doctrine in 1980s

My source on numbers was military balance 1989
Does your link have an OOB I missed that part ?

Don't forget all the older aircrafts of Soviet and WP Air Forces. Those were going to participate in combat, esp. when the WP Air Forces were mostly still equipped with less cutting edge equipment but still occupying a key position in WP offensive plans.
 

Khanzeer

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Don't forget all the older aircrafts of Soviet and WP Air Forces. Those were going to participate in combat, esp. when the WP Air Forces were mostly still equipped with less cutting edge equipment but still occupying a key position in WP offensive plans.
Good point Do you have any source on how many older fished floggers Soviets retained by mid 80s
I counted 1500+ flogger B/ G even as late as 1988 per FLIGHT international
But fished J K L N are listed as only 500 by as early as 1983 , seems a rather low number since 1500 + were operational as late as 1981 ( per military balance 1981).And fished L N were in production till 1982 , I'm sure 1000+ second third gen fishbeds must be in reserve units considering they were such new airframes back then
 
You are the head of Soviet airforces PVO and VVS
The year is 1980 cold war at its peak

You have The same aircraft and weapons as in the OTL for both services

But You have been given complete freedom to adopt any tactics are make any decisions at the tactical or strategic level to improve the performance of the two services

What would you do ?

WARPAC pilots flew about 80-120 hours a year. NATO flew a minimum of 240 hrs a year to maintain combat ratings. NATO training was a lot more realistic, for example RAFG had a policy of allowing RAF aircraft to engage other RAFG aircraft but had a single turn policy ie only 1 turn to engage then disengage. If you got jumped and "shot down" you paid for a case of beer for the attackers mess. This had the advantage of making RAF aircrew practice maintaining situational awareness and ingrained good combat habits into them. Also events like Red Flag and Maple Flag allowed NATO aircrew to practice in a realistic near combat environment.

WARPAC generally didn't do this and didn't do training like Red Flag etc.
 
They need to make dedicated 'Wild Weasel' units. Due to the complexity of the missions, two seat fighter bombers work best. The Soviets could go with the SU-24, but this might be too big. Maybe a "Wild Weasel' two seat version of the SU-22?
 

Khanzeer

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They need to make dedicated 'Wild Weasel' units. Due to the complexity of the missions, two seat fighter bombers work best. The Soviets could go with the SU-24, but this might be too big. Maybe a "Wild Weasel' two seat version of the SU-22?
They had single seat su22 fitted with a lot of jammers in the 80s
Even the 2 seat mig23ub can be fast SEAD platform
 
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