I was thinking to define the possible missions that can be considered. Not to argue in any way.
I wonder that if a capital warship, which includes some submarines would be forward escorted. Say a missile boat, cruise or ballistic, when leaving port, an escort would go forward to clear the area of threat forces, ie. US subs. Especially if the capital ship had a disadvantage against the US sub.
With such a disadvantage and the Soviet Commander/Skipper, in open waters commanding a group, had any inkling that a US sub was present, would they want to have a forward element go active to level the playing field?
Kind of an experienced submariner question about tactics of 30-40 years ago.
The next question, "is that modelled"?.
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