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Originally Posted by WargamerScott
The only thing I found questionable was the mention of using aircraft to protect submarines from NATO air attack. That's a pointless exercise.
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In fact, the Russian Navy places great importance on defending their subs against aircraft (Gorshkov learned that lesson from the WW2 U-boat war). A major point of the Soviet (now, Russian) SSBN bastion concept is to put their high-value subs (SSBNs) in areas that can be defended against Western ASW assets. The Soviets learned (thanks to Johnny Walker
) how easy it was for our ASW aircraft to snap-up their Yankee and early Delta boomers in mid-ocean, given a cue from SOSUS. The Delta IV and Typhoons were designed with very-long-range missiles, able to hit US targets from launch points just off their homeports. No P-3 or Nimrod pilot would dare go subhunting within range of Russian Fulcrums or Flankers!
