Saturday, October 18, 2014

Is There A Foreign Submarine Operating In Swedish Waters?

Swedish Navy commodore Jonas Wikstrom talks to the media during a news conference in Stockholm October 17, 2014. Credit: Reuters/Anders Wiklund/TT News Agency

Sweden's Military Investigates 'Suspicious Underwater Activity' -- Reuters

(Reuters) - Sweden's military said on Friday it was searching an area of the sea around the Stockholm archipelago after a report on "suspicious underwater activity".

The search in the Baltic Sea evokes memories in Sweden of the stranding in 1981 of the Soviet submarine U137 deep inside Swedish waters, which sparked intense suspicion about the scale and motives of such incursions.

"The Armed Forces have on Friday received information about alien underwater activity in the Stockholm archipelago," the military said in a statement on Friday.

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More News On Reports That There Is A Foreign Submarine Operating In Swedish Waters?

'Foreign Underwater Activity' Reported in Sweden -- ABC News/AP
Sweden Deploys Planes, Ships and Troops over 'Foreign Underwater Activity' -- IBTimes
Sweden Hunts 'Foreign' Submarine Off Stockholm -- SKY News
Russian Submarines Suspected Of Entering Waters Off Stockholm, Sweden Responding To ‘Foreign Threat’ -- Inquisitr
Sweden deploys troops over underwater threat -- The Local
Sweden probes 'foreign underwater activity' -- Al Jazeera

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