T2K Naval War in the Pacific

[unkated]

IIRC, there was mention in the Yugoslav material of some battle in the Med against the Italian and Greek navies, either trying to run supplies to Turkey or to reinforce the IV Corps.

(Sending IV Corps to Yugoslavia is one that doesn't make sense to me either, but if you like high level conspiracy....

• The Chief of Staff of someone high in CivGov's military is a MilGov sleeper.
• Said sleeper put in all the paperwork to get IV Corps and naval escort sent away from CivGov's northeast enclave, perhaps while his chief was elsewhere.
• The true purpose of IV Corps's mission is to weaken CivGov by removing ~30,000 trained troops and their equipment and sending them out of the country - if you like your MilGov evil).

There was a mention I remember reading in this forum of a major north Pacific naval battle, where the Soviets slammed 2-3 US CVBGs with nukes, creating the conditions to allow them to scamper across the Alaska invasion force. (I don't really buy it either, but we way as well dredge that up as a possibility and show the link). Or did I misremember that

Uncle Ted

[Olefin]

A decent size nuke is 200kt plus - if you look at nuclear torpedoes their yield is much less - thus if you want to sink ships and damage port facilities but not take out the whole port and city with it you would use a nuclear torpedo - but if you want to take out the port as a whole and sink as many ships as possible you use a much larger weapon

for instance the US Mark 45 torpedo only had an 11 kiloton warhead - still decent sized but hardly by itself big enough to take out a major port and the city surrounding it

[mpipes]

What was Soviet doctrine as far as using nukes at sea

It pretty well known now that they planned to start using nukes almost from the start of a war in Europe. Was the same true for their navy. I've always had the view that they would want to avoid crossing that threshold at sea. They would have lost those exchanges in effect, as their navy was tied pretty tightly to their bases and had little ability to "scatter" like the US had and US doctrine was to take out the bases with nukes if the Soviets started using their nukes against navy ships.

[lordroel]

for instance the US Mark 45 torpedo only had an 11 kiloton warhead - still decent sized but hardly by itself big enough to take out a major port and the city surrounding it

But enough to cause severe damage to the port i guess.

[Olefin]

probably would depend where it went off and how big the harbor is - at very least it would be very bad news for any nearby ships or subs when it went off - and if it went off right next to loading terminal or docks you can pretty much kiss them goodbye