Date/Time: 04 September, 1975 / 12:00:00 Zulu
Location:
Norwegian Sea
Duration: 3 days
Introduction
Reminiscent of WW2, two Soviet Sverdlov-class
cruisers have been sighted by neutral shipping transiting through the Denmark
Straits and are hell-bent on getting into NATO's shipping lanes for some commerce
raiding.
Keflavik
airfield has sustained heavy bombing by Badgers launching heavy missiles at the
airfield facilities, so no land based recon / surveillance is available at present.
The
majority
of the radar sites in the vicinity have been destroyed, as well as the local SOSUS
station.
USS Newport News,
"the Grey Ghost from the East Coast" (a name she was
given during the Vietnam War), is the last 8"-gunned cruiser in service in the
US Navy. She was due to decommission in June 1975 but due to tensions increasing
in Soviet and NATO relations, and of course with the outbreak of war, her
mothballing was postponed. She has now deployed to counter the Sverdlov threat, her escorts a mixture of
old and new. Her task: to seek and destroy the Soviet cruisers and their escorts.
Can the Grey Ghost and her group stand up to the Soviet raiding party?