The Last Dance Hype (Dance of the Vampires Revisit) 

My eyes got real wide real fast.

I felt my soul deploy chaff and arm CIWS

weren't about 500 produced in total?

@@aquila3958 Yeah, just about.

Yep, as of 2018 there were only 63 in service in Russia. The soviets expected to need 100 to kill a carrier group and they expected to lose 50% of them.

Which is correct to doctrine at that time. Off the top of my head I think doctrine was to attack a carrier group with 120 backfires and 240 badgers, saturating the air defense with Ku-22's from standoff distance, and they were expecting to lose 30-50% of the force in that effort. The amount of force involved in the late cold war was pretty crazy.

@@pogo1140 they didn’t have Kinzhal and such then, an US destroyer would need to shot 17 missiles to guarantee intercept so let us pray nothing starts outside of fiction.

"coming"

Awesome

In the book they had 2 AEW aircraft up, but CAP was drawn away by decoys.

Danke für die Unterstützung

Apparently I speak 1 language and thats BAD English. (genuinely good catch)😅

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In the book it played out this way to buy some additional time for the backfires to close before AWACS detection. AWACS and CAP had been drawn off by some decoys on an expected vector. Hence the backfires making the big pivot as they come around onto the attack vector.

Right. I have not seen a genuine analysis of this or anything from red storm.

Oh snap nice catch.

Also I did not intend for the click bate not my MO. Only occurred to me after reading this other things might be titled that.