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Old January 18th 04, 05:23 PM
Krztalizer
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I don't see what is so incredibly unbelievable about it. Given
the common dispositions of ships/fleets in the Eastern Med during that
time, the Soviets could reasonably keep about 30 missiles in range of
US vessels.


'In range' is not the same as being able to target the CV. That's what makes
this silly. Think about the SSMs of the day that the Soviets were fielding -
those SS-N-3s were early variants, and the shooting platforms, regardless of
whether on ships or subs, were TOTALLY vulnerable when they actually got into
position to fire. How long to set their gyros? And while they are sitting
with their pants down, waiting to fire, Cowboys are getting firing orders a few
meters below their wakes. *One* salvo might get airborne before lances start
sticking Soviet ships, but that's about it. And to what end? Our Frigate
could have raised holy hell for about 2 minutes before the Novorosiisk's
cruisers and submarines chopped us to bits, but to what end? Yeah, the Soviet
Navy COULD have committed suicide all those years ago, but thankfully, they had
more sense than that.

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