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| Tango01 | 06 Dec 2016 9:48 p.m. PST |
…Aircraft Carriers. "Russia's enormous Oscar-class nuclear attack submarines, known as the Project 949A, were designed during the Cold War with a specific mission in mind: to go hunting for American aircraft carriers, the pride of American naval power. Because each U.S. flattop is protected by its own little fleet of escorting warships—many of them specialized in antisubmarine warfare—the Oscar's primary game plane isn't to creep up close for a torpedo attack. Instead, it's designed to lob enormous anti-shipping cruise missiles (ASCMs) from hundreds of miles away. Cruise-missile submarines, designated SSGs and SSGNs by the U.S. Navy, were not a new concept. The earliest missile subs were adapted from more conventional submarines in the 1950s, and the Soviet Echo class, commissioned in 1961, were the first ones designed to employ cruise missiles as their primary armament…"
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