Originally Posted by KenV
If it was a carrier being targetted, the Lun would have been spotted hundreds of miles from the carrier and the carrier's aircraft would have killed it well before it could have launched its missiles. A single hit from a Maverick would likely have done the job.
Range of a Maverick against the range of a P-270? SS-N-22 launched from 120km, flies at 20 metres and Mach 3. And that was the Lun, what, nearly 40 years ago?
Your statement about Doppler is interesting. The Lun may be travelling at over 500kph, but a USN aircraft carrier with no Doppler shift at all is a massive radar target. Even the Lun's Puluchas radar could find that.