The USSR policy was to send several regiments of Backfires against a
located US CVBG and try to overwhelm it.

Having seen that scenario played out in 1:1 scale, I would report that the
event would be, if nothing else, glorious. Being pelted in the chest by sonic
booms from Soviet supersonic bombers while chaff banged and glittered was one
of the more interesting moments I've had. Back in the US at a war college, we
wargamed it to no end - which just plain never showed what 48 Backfires, a
couple dozen Tu 22s, 16s, SSNs and SSM-armed patrol boats could really do.

v/r
Gordon
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USN SAR

Its always better to lose -an- engine, not -the- engine.