The main form of employment of guided-missile ships was the task force (operativnoye soedinenie, in Russian), as well as the above-noted direct-tracking ship or small tactical groups of ships with the same job (KNS or GKNS, respectively, in Russian).
It is no secret that the officers of the surface community who served on the guided-missile ships counted on surviving a battle against a U.
While the Spanish F-100s, at about 6,000 tons, would not be large enough to field the full anti-missile system proposed for US ships, the Spanish vessels could work with US
guided-missile ships like Arleigh Burke destroyers and Ticonderoga cruisers.
