(d) Fighters. The majority of Soviet fighters are short range. The YAK 9, however, is credited with a range approaching that of the light bombers and sufficient numbers of these fighters could be made available to provide limited escorts to bombers operating over the Eastern half of England during Phase 1, or over almost the whole of England during Phase 11. As they do not contribute to the bomb tonnage dropped, fighters are not mentioned further in this paper, although the effect of fighter escorts upon the casualties which our own fighters would inflict upon the Soviet bombers has been taken into consideration.
- Collection ID
- CAB158
- Conflict
- Cold War
- Countries
- England France Germany Greece Italy Russia Soviet Union United Kingdom United States of America
- Document Reference
- CAB 158/6/23
- Document Types
- Report Map Summary
- File Reference
- CAB 158/6
- Identifier
- 10.1080/swwf.cab158.0006.023
- Keywords
- Assessing Enemy Strength Predicting Enemy Intentions Contingency Planning Threat Of War With The Ussr Defence Air Power Air Warfare Air Raids Bombing Aircraft Soviet Air Force Missiles Rockets Casualties Anti-aircraft Defence Airfields Soviet Strategy
- Languages
- English
- Organizations
- Chiefs of Staff Joint Planning Staff Ministry of Defence Joint Intelligence Sub-Committee
- Pages
- 14
- Persons Discussed
- Valentine Boucher John Gardiner William Hayter Lawrence Pendred Kenneth Strong
- Published in
- United Kingdom
- Themes
- Military Intelligence
