I'm wondering if the Sea Harrier FA2 had enough range to prevent Soviet
naval Backfire bombers from firing their AS-4 Kitchen air-to-surface
missiles to the Royal Navy ASW carrier group.

In the latter half of the 1980s, NATO's naval war plan was to place
British ASW carriers at least 200 miles ahead of US strike carriers to
clear the path of hostile submarines. The RN carriers must have had to
fend for themselves against air attack that far away. Or were they
supposed to be covered by USAF F-15s from Iceland and RAF Tornado F3s
from Scotland?