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Originally Posted by Bigtime
I highly doubt the Americans would sail a carrier battle group into the Black sea (as a show of force). Thus limiting them to aerial power projection.
Capn', your take?
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Strategy wise it would be foolish for the American's to put a Carrier Battle Group in the Black Sea, which is Russia's back yard.
While the Russian Black Fleet Navy isn't the most dynamic Group out there, more focused on anti submarine operations, if Moskva is there (rumors of it popping up in Cuba) it has a good arsenal of anti shipping weapons.
We also need to remember that the majority of the Russian airforce is in the West, and they can move Naval Aviation assets down to the Black Sea within a few days.
On top of that, I'm betting that Russia has either bolster or in the process of bolstering their submarine presence in the area.
At the end of the day politically, if something were to go down, the Russians would need to get one solid hit on a carrier for America's political will to go away, and since your in Russia's back yard, missiles would be plentiful.