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Originally Posted by TLAM Strike
I was just about to mention that but got called in to work:
In a Surface vs. Surface fight everyone talks about the greater number of SSMs on Russian cruisers but no one talks about the number of SSMs and NATO frigates... yes I said frigates no quit giving me that look! The only Russian frigate to carry SSMs was the Krivak and that was at the cost of their ASW missiles (four total). In fact until the Sovermenny DDGs Russian Destroyers were all gun or AAW ships. (Ok yes there were four Kildins armed with six SS-N-1s and a few converted to that design.) NATO had tons of small ocean going ships with Harpoon or Exocet missiles. Perrys, Knoxs, Broadswords, Amazons, Leanders, Wielingens etc had around four ASMs each (some could carry SAMs or ASROCS in place of them for added flexibility).
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I think that is a pretty good point. Almost every NATO ship and its sister was carrying 4/8 Harpoons. That realy adds up in term of striking power. The soviets had some massive SSM batteries on their large cruisers/aviation cruisers but almost nothing on the escorts. Even the Kresta II and Kara cruisers had SS-N-14 in favour of SSMs.