Any Navy experts out there that can access what would the result be between Moskva w/fleet VS USS McFaul w/fleet?
The problem is the USS McFaul and USCS Dallas are the only two U.S. ships in the Black Sea. The last article I read said 1 Spanish, 1 German and 4 Turkish ships. Not a lot of help.
There are supposedly 10 NATO ships in the Black Sea and 8 more on the way for scheduled exercises, but I wouldn’t bet too heavily on Europe to hold to its NATO agreement that an attack on one is an attack on all.
Any Navy experts out there that can access what would the result be between Moskva w/fleet VS USS McFaul w/fleet?
I’m a Navy cold war vet, definitely but not an expert of our present day Navy. It appears to me that the McFaul does not have the type of armament to slug it out in a close quarter gun battle - it would be close quarters in the Black Sea, its not the high seas like the Pacific - with the Russian fleet.
The McFaul is high tech, hardly any guns. And what about McFaul’s ASW capability? the Black Sea is probably crawling with Russian subs.