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I think not. How would a carrier battle group, especially a small one from the UK and the Netherlands, ever get close enough during war conditions, while operating in Arctic waters full of nuclear-armed SSNs and SSKs, while the Bears, Backfires, and Badgers were lobbing nuclear cruise missiles at them? If any carriers succeeded in running such a gauntlet, how long would it take for them to finally reach a launch point? The "bastions" would be empty by then and the war over.In open warfare, SLBMs and cruise missiles were the only systems capable of attacking "bastions" in the Russian arctic, not to mention other equl or higher priority military targets in the USSR. So, given the real-world choice, the UK government chose Polaris/Trident.
I think not. How would a carrier battle group, especially a small one from the UK and the Netherlands, ever get close enough during war conditions, while operating in Arctic waters full of nuclear-armed SSNs and SSKs, while the Bears, Backfires, and Badgers were lobbing nuclear cruise missiles at them? If any carriers succeeded in running such a gauntlet, how long would it take for them to finally reach a launch point? The "bastions" would be empty by then and the war over.
In open warfare, SLBMs and cruise missiles were the only systems capable of attacking "bastions" in the Russian arctic, not to mention other equl or higher priority military targets in the USSR. So, given the real-world choice, the UK government chose Polaris/Trident.
