as shown in table 48. If one adds to this the fact that many more of the warsaw pact’s large surface warships and submarines are over twenty years old, that it is capacity to detect enemy submarines is more limited, and that 75 percent of the red navy’s personnel are conscripts (in contrast to the west’s long-service professionals), it is difficult to see how the ussr would be in a position to bid for “command of the sea” in the near future.