Tried the surefire old tactics I've used at the very passive Soviets and now I got greeted by 2 spreads of 3 x USET-80's against my launch transient. While evading, the Charlie and Victor III fired SS-N-16's at me too. One of the USET-80's latched on me that I was unable to evade. USS Jacksonville ended up in a deep grave.
This is from just one test but it looks like this patch have changed the play field considerably. Excellent