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Originally Posted by ElAurens
OK, I'll play along...
The Russian Navy, if it is ever committed to a real conflict, will have a heroic, but painfully short, campaign.
I can sum it up pretty succinctly in one word...
Toast.
If they are foolish enough to engage the NATO navies in the open Atlantic they might last a week. If they are even more foolish and try to engage in the Med, 2 days, as they will be at the mercy of a navy's worst nightmare... Land based aircraft.
Just how many aircraft does the Kuznetsov embark? I'll tell you... Not enough.
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The effect is not always based on numbers. In the situation that war have not not been declared a highly mobile force which no one can deny access due to the free travel at sea are a very powerfull tool.
It is about presence and show of force which can exploitet by diplomacy.
In a limit war settings such a force will have the ability to reach far beyond the frontline where the opposition can do little to oppose it. Like the US landing a Inchon, Korea, september 1950 which essentially turned the war.
I can recommend reading "Sea Power a Naval History" by E.B.Potter
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