interesting read TH. Thanks.
Other than overestimating the capabilities of the a/c, the expenditure of weapons etc the one major thing that Tom Clancy is has gone wrong at IMHO is the operational doctrine. In the novel his depiction of the 2nd battle of Atlantic seems completely flawed to me. Soviet naval doctrine was, first and foremost, oriented around coastal defence unlike what he has stated in the novel. Same goes for the assumption that tact. nukes won't be used on the battlefield.