Path: utzoo!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!mailrus!csd4.milw.wisc.edu!bionet!agate!ucbvax!tut.cis.ohio-state.edu!rutgers!att!cbnews!asulaima@udenva.cair.du.edu From: asulaima@udenva.cair.du.edu (SULAIMAN) Newsgroups: sci.military Subject: Re: Aircraft Carrier Surviveability Message-ID: <5472@cbnews.ATT.COM> Date: 7 Apr 89 03:04:52 GMT References: <5403@cbnews.ATT.COM> Sender: military@cbnews.ATT.COM Organization: U of Denver Lines: 28 Approved: military@att.att.com From: asulaima@udenva.cair.du.edu (SULAIMAN) In article <5403@cbnews.ATT.COM> pv04+@andrew.cmu.edu (Philip Verdieck) writes: >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... Sorry but the problem is not the minicarriers. Its the land based Badgers, Backfires and Blinders under Sov Red Banner Fleet Control. They have approx 200-400 + what they can raise from Sov Air Force. These planes can range you or your CBG as far as Britain and definitely S of the GIUK line. If you go up near Murmansk they just call up the regular Sov air interceptors and chew up ANY CBG within hours. Current Sov doctrine states that u blow away CV with long range SSMs and then mop up the rest with combined surface/air attacks. Their boats other then the Kirov class and a few others don't have the endurance to sail into Mid-Atlantic unsupplied on a search&destroy mission unless they are sure that there are no CBGs around. Normally the bombers will get tagged heavily by CAP from CV but if you are in Murmansk or thereabouts you just don't have that luxury as Sov MIGs start racking up F-14s on their cockpits! Ameer Z. Sulaiman.