Post-Cold War I had a little to do with evaluating Red Met. equipment and capabilities.
Very unimpressive kit, and surprisingly poor capabilities, considering that they often had all NATO obs and publicly available analyses available in a favourable West to East prevailing scenario.
However, HQSTC and JHQ did produce forecasts and analyses for friendly eyes only. Every day the "real" forecasts for training in NW Europe were shadowed by real forecasts for East of the IGB. These latter were assessed against actuals, but actuals would have disappeared along with NATO obs if TTW looked likely
And here we are again. Depressing, unless you are an arms contractor..
Now thrive the armourers