The crew of Russia's Akula-class, nuclear-powered attack submarine Samara lines up on its deck during a naval parade rehearsal in Vladivostok, Russia, on July 23, 2010. REUTERS/Yuri Maltsev
RT: Russian nuclear subs quietly reached US coast & left undetected – Navy officer
Russian nuclear-powered submarines conducted an exercise near American military bases with the objective of avoiding detection as they came close to the US coast, a submarine squadron commander told a Russian military TV channel.
The stunning revelation was made in a military TV series set to air on Zvezda (‘Star’), the Russian Defense Ministry’s official broadcaster. The episode focuses on Akula-class Shchuka-B nuclear-powered attack submarines.
According to a submarine officer filmed in the show, the Navy command ordered to take position in the vicinity of US military bases during exercises.
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Update: Russian Nuclear Submarine Commander Says His Vessels Sailed Near Navy Base on U.S. Coast—But Pentagon Doesn't Seem Concerned (Newsweek)
WNU Editor: Another Russian naval officer is boasting that they were able to track undetected a NATO sub under the Arctic .... Russian submarine in Arctic tracked ‘enemy’ sub undetected for days (Asia Times).
7 comments:
Russia may have it's problems but they sure know how to make quiet nuclear subs.
I say so what, I am sure we do too, and that is if we bother to even look for them. We know they creep around our coasts as we do theirs.
Russia boasts about these kind of achievements, the US does not. This is why these "reports" feel icky.
Yeah, and we underestimated and dismissed the Japanese military at one time. Got to get that in there for my friend Aizino!
I do think Hans has a point about boasting. Every military does it but so often it seems, to me at least, that there is an element of overreach by the Russians.
And for Stephan: knowing that it's done and knowing where they are are different things. Someplace (can't remember where, sorry) somebody at the Pentagon was talking about the state of ASW the gist of which was that the US really needs better technology to track Russian boats. Unsaid but implied was too many are getting in close to US littoral waters.
Exactly. I like the American approach. Let Russian fighter pilots be seen doing unsafe manoeuvres, let Russian captains boast about their boats capabilities and let American soldiers & navy just grin silently, never revealing their strength in stupid amateurish boasts
Exactly what l thought, you know they are there,you may well have been tracking them.
How do the Russians know they were NOT detected? That we did not annouce things does not mean we knew nothing
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