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Worth noting that the 3:1 ratio is really applicable to maintaining a forward deployment: you get one hull working up or in transit, one on station, and one in refit. If you're not interested in forward deployment, it's not necessarily relevant. In the case of the Soviet Union (and presumably Russia), the preferred operating model seems to be for ships and submarines to be held alongside at relatively high readiness to sail, with occasional programmed deployments.

[QUOTE="Yellow Palace, post: 599320, member: 574"] Worth noting that the 3:1 ratio is really applicable to maintaining a forward deployment: you get one hull working up or in transit, one on station, and one in refit. If you're not interested in forward deployment, it's not necessarily relevant. In the case of the Soviet Union (and presumably Russia), the preferred operating model seems to be for ships and submarines to be held alongside at relatively high readiness to sail, with occasional programmed deployments. [/QUOTE]

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