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WI post 1945 the USSR and China focus solely on littoral naval combat and build no surface ships for any blue water operations.So much so that by 80s they still have

no aviation cruisers
no large ASW ships
no large rocket ships
they still have a large SSN, SSGN and SSBN fleet as in the OTL

They focus solely on and have much higher number of
1-fast missile craft
2-Torpedo boats
3-More stocks of sophisticated mines
4-coastal mobile land based ASM like Sepal and Silkworm
5-More strike aircraft designed for anti-shipping strikes
6-small coastal ASW corvettes
7-coastal Subs diesel electric
just think of how IRGC naval threat is nowdays esp with their swarm tactics

How would that influence NATO naval response and how can they counter such threats more effectively in the 70s and 80s ?
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