Re: Tin Cans versus Dreadnoughts

"Imre A. Szabo" wrote:
> Currently, I doubt the US could afford the missiles and smart bombs to
hunt
> a Kirov.  Not the cost, rather the missiles themselves.  Each of the
> services are billions of dollars short of munitions, with smart bombs
and
> guided missiles being in accute short supply...

In Red Storm Rising, it was a Norwegian diesel-electric submarine that
managed
to kill a Kirov when it had sortied.  But only after the Russian surface

group had begun to prosecute the American nuclear sub contact.

Jon