This is early cold war. Maybe 1950. The ships are WWII built, unchanged. I was on a destroyer in the mid 1960s in a hunter killer group. The ships had major modernizations done, better planes and sonar. Diesel/electric subs were easy prey. But the nuclear subs were the killers.
Couldn't have been 1950, because of the A3D Skywarrior (at 5:36), which was introduced to the fleet in 1956. The mention at 6:59 of Soviet nuclear subs also puts it in the late 1950s.
+onetruekeeper The SU lost over 25M people in WWII, I seriously doubt they were looking for more loss of life. In addition, between the scorched earth policies of both the initially retreating Soviets and the later retreating Germans and the very heavy fighting, most of western SU was destroyed and needed rebuilding. The Soviets for all their flaws and horrors, knew the suffering total war brought in a way America has never understood in modern times.
_I seriously doubt they were looking for more loss of life._ Yet by leaving large armies in Central Europe, and making threatening claims like "We will bury you!", the Korean War and the way the Soviets took control of Central Europe, men who vividly remembered Pearl Harbor were perfectly reasonable to think that the Soviets were a military threat to The West.
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This is early cold war. Maybe 1950. The ships are WWII built, unchanged. I was on a destroyer in the mid 1960s in a hunter killer group. The ships had major modernizations done, better planes and sonar. Diesel/electric subs were easy prey. But the nuclear subs were the killers.
Couldn't have been 1950, because of the A3D Skywarrior (at 5:36), which was introduced to the fleet in 1956. The mention at 6:59 of Soviet nuclear subs also puts it in the late 1950s.
Laughable...any war with Russia would have gone nuclear. A conventional sub war with the Soviets with no attacks on civillians was wishful thinking.
+onetruekeeper The SU lost over 25M people in WWII, I seriously doubt they were looking for more loss of life. In addition, between the scorched earth policies of both the initially retreating Soviets and the later retreating Germans and the very heavy fighting, most of western SU was destroyed and needed rebuilding. The Soviets for all their flaws and horrors, knew the suffering total war brought in a way America has never understood in modern times.
_I seriously doubt they were looking for more loss of life._
Yet by leaving large armies in Central Europe, and making threatening claims like "We will bury you!", the Korean War and the way the Soviets took control of Central Europe, men who vividly remembered Pearl Harbor were perfectly reasonable to think that the Soviets were a military threat to The West.
But it makes for good fiction (Red Storm Rising).