Red-Faced Swedish Navy Calls Off Hunt For Mystery Vessel In Baltic Sea - And Is Forced To Admit There Was No Submarine There After All -- Daily Mail
* Hunt for 'Russian submarine' in Stockholm called off Friday morning
* More than 200 troops, ships and helicopters now called from archipelago
* Underwater activity has been confirmed, a submarine has been ruled out
* Moscow today blasted Sweden's 'baseless Cold War-rhetoric actions'
Swedish military has called off the search for a 'Russian underwater vessel' thought to have been lurking in the Stockholm archipelago, after admitting that it was 'definitely not' a submarine.
Navy top brass has today been forced to concede that although 'underwater activity' is confirmed, the military has ruled out the possibility that it could have been a Russian sub.
This comes after Moscow blasted the hunt as 'groundless actions by the Swedish military, based on a Cold War-rhetoric'.
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Called it!😀
ReplyDeleteGot a swedish mate who was going on about this... I'll be taking the mickey out of him for a good while now!
ReplyDeleteD. Plowman,
ReplyDeleteJust light teasing, it's going to be rough enough for him,
Just like back in the 80's the Swedish Defense Ministry got exactly what they wanted from this;
- a bigger Budget and a commitment for new toys,
- closer informal ties to NATO and US Alphabet Agencies,
- a neutered left of center Prime Minister and Cabinet,
- and a new generation of pumped up fear by Swedes of The Russians.
The money for all those toys and raises has to come from somewhere, and it won't be coming from South Stream transit fees, 'cause that project is now dead for a decade, so it will have to come out of the declining Swedish economy,
It won't be the Russians paying for it.
Silly Swedes, fall for it every time.
You definitely called it Jay.
ReplyDeleteSadly, it was the historically, technically and logically, the only call.
ReplyDeleteIf you want to insert a Russian Spy into a First Class Flight from Russia to London, then London to Sweden is a lot easier, and more comfortable.
There is no need to "test" Swedish ASW Capabilities, they are =|< NATO,
If they need to "tap" Swedish Military Communications, they will donit the old fashioned Russian way, bribe a disaffected Booze Allen NSA subcontractor, for the passcodes and weblink for the NSA live stream.
If they need to survey Swedish Waters, for example, find seasonal thermoclines in Swedish fijords, then just donate some AUV 's through the Environmental Studies Ddpartment of the University of Moscow, to the Baltic Sea international Envonmental Working Group.
We dont have fjords.
ReplyDeleteSorry, Bad habit, Hans,
ReplyDeleteUse it as a generalized descriptor for pretty much every inlet, bay, cove, surrounded by high hills, north of the '49 and south of the Arctic circle,
Unless I am referring to a specific place.
The reason I tend to use it is that the area I love to sail in most, West Coast of BC and Alaska, is filled with saltwater submerged glacial valleys and mountainous uplift flooded geological features, fijords is a lot less words.