Posted on 10/27/2016 1:14:44 PM PDT by BenLurkin
Or remained stationed at Tartus to hold Syria...after scraping ISIS off the landscape.
Partly. Soviet naval doctrine was to fire a broadside of missiles and then get out of Dodge, or get sunk trying. The Kuznetzov and her sisters were no exception. The aircraft were purely to protect an ASW group. Thats about all they’re good for... chasing off the odd P3 or Nimrod.
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