File Name: Okean 80

File Submitter: CV32

File Submitted: 14 Sep 2012

File Category: GIUK

 

A Harpoon Commander's Edition scenario for the EC2003 GIUK Battleset.

 

This scenario is designed for play by the BLUE side.

 

Okean (Ocean) 70, conducted by the USSR during April and May 1970, was the largest exercise held by any navy since the end of WWII. Hundreds of surface ships, submarines and land based aircraft participated simultaneously in several worldwide operating regions, including the Barents, Norwegian Sea, Baltic, and Mediterranean, as well as in the Pacific. Five years later, in April 1975, another major Soviet naval exercise, dubbed Okean 75, repeated the same kinds of ASW, anti-carrier strike and amphibious landing drills. Another exercise was expected to occur in Spring 1980. But it did not happen. Events such as the Iranian hostage crisis and the Soviet invasion of Afghanistan a year earlier had heightened the risk of a confrontation between the superpowers. Later in the year, and rather unexpectedly, the Soviets began gearing up for what was expected to a large scale Okean style exercise. NATO did not know it at the time, but Okean 80 would prove to be the launch of a full scale attack by the Warsaw Pact.

 

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I will be too busy the next days, but very interesting scenario of one of my preferred time periods

(Only caveat: the Sea Eagle was in service only from 1985).

I will be too busy the next days, but very interesting scenario of one of my preferred time periods (Only caveat: the Sea Eagle was in service only from 1985).

 

Production and test firings from 1982, but yeah, I'm aware of the time period limitations. (I thought it would have been more obvious that the Norwegian airfields did not have NASAMS. ). Minor distractions.

 

There wasn't a world war III in 1980, either.

Oh, yes, I discovered the NASAMS only a while later, but I can imagine they are a higher concentration of older systems

Also, when I want to mark an "I like this" about the Brad's answer, I obtain this error message

"You have reached your quota of positive votes for the day"

As consequence, I'm a very optimistic person

Hola Enrique,

 

You realise that the reason the Okean exercises were not repeated was that they were a disaster, don't you?

 

The Soviets came around to the notion that central control from the shore didn't work (guess they didn't want to learn from German experience...) and started to build bigger ships as flagships for balances task forces (the Kirovs) although sometimes they took the concept too far (the SSV-33 Kapusta class), and switched their exercises to a "defend the Rodina" scenario (Fleetex 83 & 85 were both centered in defending the Norwegian Sea).

Yes ... but a very fascinating time period