The Soviet Navy evolved anti ship missiles for its warships sooner than the West because it was faced with NATO's large surface fleets and their aircraft carriers.
The spur to Western nations seems to have been the arrival of new Soviet large surface units in the 60s and the sinking of an...
airlaunched
anti-ship missile
anti-surface warfare
asuw
cold war
great britain
naval aviation
north atlantic treaty organisation
red fleet
soviet union
surface-to-surface missile
united states
western europe
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