re: #49 Dark_Falcon

You’re wrong on that last. China is training its ship crews far better than the Soviet Union did. We’ve still got an edge, but they’ve got much better training doctrine than Ivan ever had.

Here’s an article about the Laioning and her task group.

That reads an awful lot like the glowing reports I used to read on the T80 & T64 regiments in the DDR back in the early 80’s. The 9th Guards Tank Division was a favorite boogieman IIRC. I’d be willing to bet these are similarly optimistic for similar reasons - threat inflation is important come budget time.