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Originally Posted by Olefin
It also shows that the Soviets were basically figuring in the loss of a whole regiment of bombers per attack on a carrier no matter what the result - expecting a minimum of a 50 percent loss rate per strike among the aircraft involved.
Clearly in any long war Soviet naval aviation would have been destroyed pretty quickly with that doctrine with the war staying non-nuclear as long as it did.
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Clancy (actually probably Larry Bond) got around that by having the first counter attack against the bombers being directed against drones. The F-14s were splashing drones while the real bombers were coming from another direction.
It was a one trick pony and in the end Tomahawks from 7 or 8 Los Angeles subs truly did decimate the bombers right after they landed from a strike.