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A skirmish between the Soviet Navy and NATO warships in July of 1983 gets out of hand and leads to the sinking of two Soviet Destroyers the Petropavlovsk and the Vladivostok.
The US has the USS Kidd Sunk
West Germany has the FGS Rommel sunk.
The USS Iowa is badly damaged along with two other Soviet destroyers. Andropov blames NATO and gives the ok for an undeclared naval war against NATO warships on the high seas.