Thee whole point, is the USN is so invincible, that’s it’s greatest weakness. The two scenarios I’ve posted actually happened in exercises, and both perpetrators were judged to have got away unscathed. Those officiating were professional real life USN & NATO Admirals. Just for added measure. HMS Hermes also took out a CVBG in the southern Caribbean as she could launch her Shars and the sea state prevented F14’s from taking off.
Again these were no “arm-chair generals/novelists” but real life actions.
Now if it is possible to bloodie the USN then anything is possible for those who are brave/foolhardy to try what is considered impossible.
As Barry Bull pointed out, depends on the ROE. Also depends on the judges. Exercises are one thing, real life is another. High sea state does not prevent escorts from launching missiles. In exercises American SSNs are ordered to make noise. They are ordered to do things they wouldn’t normally do. I can tell people from real life experience that this would not happen. SSs around the world were not very good in 1985. And if people think the US Navy was so arrogant in 1985 that they thought they were invincible, I say they are wrong. I know this because I was “conducting oceanographic research and the ability to stay deployed for long periods of time” all over the planet on an American 688 during the 1980s.