Help with capabilities of each Squadron.

[Neil Willis]

Without doubt, the F/a-18C is the weapon of choice for naval strikes. We have harpoon, which is now fully implemented.

[Flyco]

I seem to remember that the last time we used harpoons against warships, they were all batted out of the sky, within a few seconds of getting in range.

That was many months ago, and only 2 or 3 were fired against Red air-defence destroyer/cruisers. It was fairly disheartening, but probably true to life.

[0405 Andrew]

I thought as much, I believe we may be having a visit from the Black sea fleet sometime soon.......

[Neil Willis]

Developing tactics is still a work in progress.

I suspect we need to remove the SAM threat as a first step, or just saturate the target with more missiles than they can deal with.

In short, a well defended fleet will be a very tough nut to crack. Single vessels in isolation may be vulnerable however.

[0405 Andrew]

I reckon it will be more Bismarck and less Scharnhorst (825Sq).

[Flyco]

That’s OK - neither of them had SAMs.

[john (scooby)]

I reckon it will be more Bismarck and less Scharnhorst (825Sq).

Send in the stringbags!

[Paul(Dragon)0043]

Fairey Swordfish.

[john (scooby)]

sidenote, my grandad was on ark royal when the swordfish crippled bismark