Thanks for the info, RN7. I could have used this in my In Defense of the Red Army arguments.
http://forum.juhlin.com/showthread.p...fense+Red+Army
At the height of the Cold War, the USN was no doubt the most powerful navy in the world, but it clearly wasn't the invincible juggernaut that we'd like to imagine. As these exercises clearly demonstrate, the USN was pretty conclusively not invincible and, at the very least, the Soviet Navy in its prime could have given it a seriously bloody nose or two. This is especially so if you add in the X-factor of command.