Warsaw pact equivalent of the S-3?

[magicstix]

I was wondering if anyone knew if there was a Warsaw pact or Chinese equivalent of the S-3 Viking (i.e. a carrier-launched fixed wing ASW asset)?

[Osmium Steele]

In B4 TLAM!

I do not believe so, though I am certainly correctable on this.

The Bear and the May are the only fixed wing ASW assets with which I am familiar. Many helicopters have been fitted for the role. If the Forger was ever converted to an ASW configuration, I am unaware.

Edit: I forgot the Be-12 and A-40, but those are seaplanes, not carrier borne.

[TLAM Strike]

Soviet carrierborne ASW was provided by the Ka-25 and Ka-27 helicopters, the Mi-14 could also be carried (I think the Moskva carried them once).

The Soviets never had a fixed wing carrier based ASW aircraft, if they were to have developed one for that large carrier they were building it might have been based on the Yak-44 AWACS aircraft.

As for the Chinese we will see. They have a E-2 copy in the works, so perhaps they might make a ASW version, but I don't see how its going to launch from a ski jump.

[Marcantilan]

As TLAM pointed, no planes such as S-3, S-2, Breguet Alizé or Fairey Gannet were ever deployed on soviet aircraft carriers.

They relied upon choppers to provide ASW cover. Same happened on Invincible class carriers or other "baby" carriers (Principe de Asturias, G. Garibaldi, etc)

Regards,