WARSAW PACT RECOMMENDATIONS ON ANTIMINE DEFENSE IN THE BALTIC SEA
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Intelligence Information Special Report
COUNTRY USSR/Warsaw Pact/Poland/GDR
DATE OF
INFO. September 1981
SUBJECT
DAM 21 April 1982
Warsaw Pact Recommendations
on Antimine Defense in the Baltic Sea
SOURCE Documentary
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Summary:
This report is a translation of a Polish SECRET document,
prepared for the PAF General Staff by Polish Navy Commander
Admiral JANCZYSZYN, on the Polish acceptance of a series of
Warsaw Pact recommendations dealing with.antimine defense in the
Baltic Sea. The tripartite approach includes the Soviet Baltic
Fleet, and GDR and Polish navies, and proposes a common antimine
defense system, standardized support and training approaches, and
use of Project 207, or Project 1258E (if produced), minesweepers,
and sweeping gear, of Polish manufacture. References are also
made to inquiries into the tactical use of frogmen, data record-
ing and display equipment, sonar, and an underwater vehicle,
about to go into Polish production, designated as BLOTNIAK.
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NAVY COMMAND
28 September 1981
Gdynia
CHIEF OF THE GENERAL STAFF
Polish Armed Forces
through
OPERATIONS DIRECTORATE
GENERAL STAFF
POLISH ARMED FORCES
Warsaw
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Navy Command Position on Implementing the .
Recommendations of the Report from the Allied Fleet
Conference of Specialists on the Subject of Antimine Defense
and the Development of Antimine Defense Forces and Means
I present herewith to the Citizen General the Navy Command
position on implementing the decisions made by the Allied Fleet
conference of specialists held in June 1981, in ROSTOCK, on the
problem of antimine defense in the Baltic Sea (CONFIDENTIAL
letter #1052/I, dated 8 August 1981, and CONFIDENTIAL letter
#1054/I, dated 12 August 1981).
I. In the Field of Operations
Approve and put into force the following documents pertaining
to the organization of a combined allied naval antimine defense
system after submitting the documents to the General Staff, PAP,
by the Staff of the Combined Armed Forces of Warsaw Pact (WP)
countries:
1. Antimine defense plans of the Peoples Navy of the German
Democratic Republic (PN GDR), the.Navy of the Polish Peoples
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Republic, and the Baltic Fleet of the USSR in the southern part
of the Baltic Sea, in "constant," "increased," "threat of war"
and "full" states of combat readiness.
2. Operational manual on navigational-hydrographic equipment
supporting antimine activities.
3. Description of the unified system of water channels and means
of navigational support in the southern part of the Baltic Sea.
4. Manual on the organization of antimine observation in the
Baltic theater of naval operations.
The content and the form of the above mentioned documents
were discussed in detail during the conference at SWINOUJSCIE, in
May 1981, and were then accepted at the ROSTOCK conference.
In accordance with the decisions of the ROSTOCK conference,
the organization of a combined antimine defense task force for
training purposes is envisaged beginning. with 1982. According to
training plans for 1982, the staff of the Combined Armed Forces
(CAF), WP, entrusted the organization of this task force to the
PN GDR. According to the plan, a group of Polish Navy base
minesweepers composed of 3-4 ships, and an operational group of
officers from Navy headquarters and staffs of coastal defense
flotillas, will be included in the composition of the task force.
On the basis of experience gained from 2-3 consecutive
assemblies conducted by the allied navies, it will be possible to
correct, if necessary, the organization of the antimine defense
forces of our Navy.
II. In the Field of Materiel.
On analyzing the text of the ROSTOCK conference report
(CONFIDENTIAL letter #1052/I, dated 8 August 1981), and studying
the possibilities of implementing its provisions, the Navy
Command, in coordination with Naval Materiel Headquarters of the
Chief Inspector of Technology, PAF, is submitting the following
recommendations for the solution of specific problems:
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1. Minesweepers and breachers of mine barriers:
1.1 The parties participating in the conference jointly
acknowledged that Project 207 minesweepers are modern
ships and it is advisableto incorporate them into the
service of the allied fleets. This applies particularly
to the PPR Navy.
In the opinion of the Navy Command, the size of
Project 207 minesweeper, its technical-tactical
parameters, and especially the armament for destroying
mines, meet the requirements of the "Principles for
Classification of Ships and Auxiliary Units Afloat of
Fleets of the Warsaw Pact Countries" for including the
minesweeper in the "base minesweeper" subclass. Equipping
the PPR Navy with Project 207 minesweepers will insure
maintenance of the required base minesweeper ceiling in
the Baltic Sea within the tripartite allied agreement.
The undertakings and measures recommended in the protocol
in the field of low magnetic base minesweepers and
minesweeping gear should be conducted by Poland in pursuit
of a policy of modernization of Project 207 minesweepers
and the introductian of successive mutations within the
framework of the planned number of ships for combatting
mines targeted for 1995.
Envisaged for the second quarter of 1983, subsequent
to the conclusion of trial runs of the experimental
vessel, is the submission, to the working group of the
Technical Committee of the CAF, of a Polish proposal
pertaining to the introduction into the equipment of WP
allied fleets of Project 207 minesweeper, including
sweeping gear produced for it. The initiation of
production in Poland of Project 1258E minesweeper, under
Soviet license, has been conditioned on requirements
submitted, in accordance with standing WP procedures, by
the partners involved.
Initial inquiries conducted on the capabilities of
the USTKA shipyards to handle this project indicate that
serial production of numerous Project 1258E minesweepers
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is technically feasible and is of interest to the
shipyard. The basic hull construction materials, made of
polyester-glass laminated plastics, would have to be
produced domestically or imported from the USSR or GDR..
For outfitting the minesweepers, some of the gear and
mechanization serially produced in Poland or produced for
Project 207 units could be utilized.
Final conclusions on the possibilities of undertaking
this production in Poland, and its economic feasibility,
should be worked out on the level of the Defense Industry
Committee, after the producer becomes familiar with the
technical-technological documentation of the vessel.
In the event serial production of Project 1258E
inshore minesweeper begins in Poland (with possible 'GDR
collaboration), it would be advisable to introduce this
unit into Polish naval equipment-in the "inshore
minesweeper" subclass, which, together with mobilized
fishing cutters adapted for antimine defense, would meet
the inshore minesweeper strength stipulated in the
protocol.
1.2 The proposal included in the protocol pertaining to the
preparation of analyses and tactical-technical require-
ments for modifying ships built for Poland and USSR as
mine barrier breachers can be fulfilled during 1982-83
within the framework of the Naval Technical Headquarters
scientific-research work plan.
It is envisaged that specialists from the ship
industry, the Polish Navy, and Maritime Technology
Headquarters will be employed in this work. The
coordination of standardized tactical-technical
requirements is to take place within the framework of the
CAF Technical Committee plan.
1.3 The Navy is currently conducting work on the modification
of the B-410 fishing cutter for minesweeping missions. It
is proposed to outfit the cutter with MT-3 contact and
BGAT or AT-2 (AT-6) electric sweeping gear. The vessel
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has undergone sea trials with MT-3 sweeping gear. A
sweeping gear steering mechanism with a power source for
noncontact sweeping has been developed; the FAMOR plant in
BYDGOSZCZ is to start serial production of it in 1983.
Technical capabilities exist for outfitting the cutter
with standardized sweeping gear and incorporating it into
the armament of allied fleets. An appropriate
recommendation may be made at the meeting of the CAF
Technical Committee Working Group in 1983.
2. Sweeping gear.
2.1 The Polish partners will study the feasibility of. starting
production of the sweeping gear and the bangalore torpedo
charges proposed in the protocol, upon receiving from the
USSR qonstruction-technological documentation and conduct-
ing consultations with industrial plants. Preconditions
for starting production of the above-mentioned sweeping
gear is a determination by parties concerned of their
delivery requirements, and a cost-free transfer of
licensing technical documentation from the USSR.
2.2 Because of the available supply of sweeping gear with
which 206F and 254M minesweepers are to be outfitted, and
the serviceability time limit of those minesweepers, the
Navy does not see the necessity of refitting them with
standardized sweeping gear.
Project 207 minesweepers, a prototype of which is
currently undergoing qualification tests, will be equipped
with low-magnetic sweeping gear especially planned for this
unit. Their production is currently getting under way.
3. Towed sonar stations for detecting mines.
The Polish partners are conducting initial experimental-
research work with towed sonar stations for detecting sea-bottom
mines (Subject "RYBITWA") ["Sea Swallow"]. The Naval Technical
Headquarters is assuming the task of developing standard tactical-
technical requirements within the proposed 1982-1983 time frame
suggested in initial USSR proposals. The possibilities,
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conditions, and scope of tripartite coordination in developing the
new station will be established on this basis.
4. BLOTNIAK underwater vehicle.
The BLOTNIAK underwater vehicle is at the stage of going into
production (a series of five by 1984). The Navy, within the frame-
work of the work plan of its own technical progress, will initiate
steps to improve the construction of the vehicle in accordance with
recommendations of the working group dated 12 June 1981.
5. Methods of employing frogmen and their equipment.
The Navy command will organize a conference of allied fleet
specialists in order to-work out principles for tactical
utilization of frogmen and to define equipment development. The
proposed conference date is the third quarter of 1982.
-6. Information recording and display apparatus and radio-sonar
mine detecting trainers.
- The above subjeet matter pertains to new, complex professional
maritime electronics problems directed at special needs of antimine
defense. The Polish partners will be able to present their views
on their capability of implementing this undertaking as they become
more familiar with related technical and construction problems. In
accordance with the proposal in the protocol, the first stage will
consist of working out, within the framework of domestic activi-
ties, a uniform set of tactical and technical requirements, and
conducting an examination of possibilities of technical cooperation
in this field with the German Democratic Republic. It is intended
to examine a portion of this problem area, discussed above, in a
study and research effort under the cryptonym LEBA.
COMMANDER
Admiral Ludwik JANCZYSZYN
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