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Originally Posted by Kapitan
SSGN such as an oscar are designed to carry anti ship missiles its thier primary role.
Soviet and russian doctorine is to overwhelm enamy radar but masses and masses of missiles, each oscar can carry 24 nuclear armed super sonic SS-N-19 anti ship missiles and each flys at mach 2+
The missile if fired from around 40 miles away you would have incredibly little time to react by the time you classify the contact 24 are headed your way and by the time you fired the missile to intercept they are within 5 miles of hitting you.
CIWS is totaly useless against them from the time it gets into range its about 0.0000468 seconds to impact, each missile is fully capible of mission killing a carrier or sinking a DDG out right, even such ships as aegis cruiser and destroyers would have a rough time trying to swat them all.
However aegis is now so advanced that i wouldnt doubt that they would stop all but a few and the oscar war time doctrine is to either hunt in groups of 2 or 3 aided by and escorting akula or victor so that could mean 72 missiles heading towards you not including tube launched ASM missiles.
now days though the standard patrol is done alone one oscar is fully capible of holding up a battle group for a day or two untill back up arrives, id say that with all them missiles flying around aegis may have a hard time im not saying it couldnt do the job its a very effective and powerful system but i would say it may have a rough time.
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I understand that it seems to be working fine for the Russians, but what about the US?
The US just have normal subs who could fire Harpoons or TASMs (which are out of service). Nowadays there are no western ASMs that are suitable to be fired from a sub (in my oppinion). They don't have enough range and are too slow so they can be killed way to easy (assumed that the missile is detected early enough).
I think if western navies need a sub-launched missile it must be a long range super sonic missile which would need a whole new sub type to be launched from.