NATO Planners Are Raising Concerns On Russia's Auxiliary Submarine Force

The Losharik. Russian MoD

Business Insider: This is the 'most shadowy' part of Russia's navy, and it is rightfully giving NATO planners pause

At a recent Center for Strategic & International Studies conference on "Undersea Warfare in Northern Europe," a research assistant and a "guru" on Russia's naval capabilities revealed one of the most frightening and disturbing weapons in Moscow's navy.

Andrew Metrick, the coauthor of a report that details the uptick in Russian submarine activity in the North Atlantic, outlined Russia's troubling return to Cold War-era levels of submarine patrols, much of which has been previously reported.

Meanwhile, the report also stated that US and NATO antisubmarine warfare capabilities had "atrophied."

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