[Marcantilan]

I love the exchange of opinions.

My two cents. Some years ago I was reading a CIA paper called "Soviet Naval Activity Outside Home Waters", for the year 1982.

It was really top secret at the time, now is open to the public (not in full).

Since I was researching for the 1982 South Atlantic War, my key interest was about Soviet boats in the South Atlantic. The report was categoric: just a couple of Foxtrot boats in Angola and thats all. No other boats deployed down south in 1982.

The trouble is, I also have a nice picture of K-513 (a NATO Victor II) crew crossing the equator line on 3 Nov 1982. The boat was near Ascension Island, unaware to the US Navy or CIA.

US boats were good. Soviet boats were good too. It is nice the humanity never paid the price to be sure which one was better.

Regards,