Path: utzoo!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!mailrus!csd4.milw.wisc.edu!bionet!agate!ucbvax!tut.cis.ohio-state.edu!rutgers!att!cbnews!jwm@stdb.jhuapl.edu From: jwm@stdb.jhuapl.edu (Jim Meritt) Newsgroups: sci.military Subject: Re: Aircraft Carrier Surviveability Message-ID: <5468@cbnews.ATT.COM> Date: 7 Apr 89 03:04:43 GMT Sender: military@cbnews.ATT.COM Organization: JHU-Applied Physics Laboratory Lines: 32 Approved: military@att.att.com From: jwm@stdb.jhuapl.edu (Jim Meritt) }From: Philip Verdieck }Someone mentioned the danger of having a CBG within range of the }SOVIET RED FLEET up near murmansk. I wouldn't expect much danger }from the Soviets. Their is not much threat from the aircraft }that their mini carriers can launch, and before their boats }are within missile range of us, our air support would have them in }missile range... That would be a bad place to be. Forget mini-carriers- look where their LAND BASED aircraft are. That would be asking for bomber wave after bomber wave. A CV there would be a real threat against Moscow, and they would proceed to draw and quarter the task force if it took everything in the Soviet Defense Force to nail them. Up to and including nukes, if their published strategies are actually what they plan to do. Not to mention that there are a lot of SSNs and SSs based there... You brazen out an approach in the Barents and you turn into Dog food... (even worse than sneaking into the Gulf of Mexico and not expecting the Air Force and National Guard not to try to get a piece of you.) -- Disclaimer: "It's mine! All mine!!!" - D. Duck