Artistic License Ships: Difference between revisions

* There are a fair number of older ''[[Harpoon (game)|Harpoon]]'' scenarios that pit a Soviet carrier group against an American one. The actual Soviet use of the "''Kiev''" and "''Moskva''" classes were to defend areas for missile submarines, not engage in a suicidal tangle against a ''Nimitz'' group, unless the latter got close to the Soviet mainland. If the Soviets were going to take on a U.S. CBG (Carrier Battle Group), they'd use submarines and/or aircraft. EvenAnd then,since for USSR the Motherlandaircraft wouldcarriers losewere ''aan lot'auxiliary tool at best, they wouldn't ofbe something to encounter with escort, but without breaking through other units infirst. theMore aggressive capital ships could be missile cruisers and/or processsubmarines.

** Or as William S. Lind [http://archive.lewrockwell.com/lind/lind113.html expressed thisthe underlying clearerproblem]:

About thirty years ago, my first boss [...] asked Admiral Hyman Rickover how long he thought the U.S. aircraft carriers would last in the war with the Soviet navy, which was largely a submarine navy. Rickover's answer, on the record in a hearing of the Senate Armed Services Committee, was, "About two days." The Committee, needless to say, went on to [[When All You Have Is a Hammer|approve buying more carriers]]. }}