[sasportas]

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.

[Stonewall Jackson]

Actually, it appears that the Russian Black Sea Fleet only has one operational submarine, a Kilo-class diesel-electric hunter-killer (one of the quietest and most lethal subs in the Russian arsenal). A Tango-class sub is currently undergoing a refit and will not be seaworthy for another year or so.