I think it was in Tom Clancy’s “Red Storm Rising”..he tells a story about Soviet Bear Pilots..sighting NATO forces..and reporting back to their base..” And now we die for the motherland..”
That was the targeting TU-95 for the TU-16 attack bombers with 300nm ASMs. it was assumed the soviet recon plane radar would spot the carrier about the same time the CVBG long range CAP (w/F-14s and PHOENIX missiles) would spot the recon plane and shoot it down.