Warzone/The Drive: The U.S. Navy Has A Critically Important Submarine Test Base Tucked Away In Alaska
Not since the Cold War has underwater stealth tech been so important and a remote test site in Alaska makes sure U.S. Navy subs remain invisible.
If you venture just north of Ketchikan, Alaska, around the picturesque Behm Canal, you may stumble upon something very unexpected—the sinister black silhouette of a nuclear fast attack or ballistic missile submarine.
The waterway is the home of the United States Navy's Southeast Alaska Acoustic Measurement Facility, more commonly known as SEAFAC. Built in 1991, it's located roughly 675 miles from the major submarine bases in Washington State. For years it seems its existence was kept relatively hush-hush, although locals clearly knew a major submarine testing facility had been established. But to this very day, the place catches people off-guard. I have received roughly a half-dozen emails over the years from various individuals, from pilots to visitors to the area, who wondered why they saw a huge submarine plowing the waters in a fjord near Ketchikan.
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WNU editor: You have to test them somewhere, so why not in this part of Alaska.
4 comments:
I hope this base was not a secret. If so, it is a secret no more. I don't understand the open sharing of US military presence, purposes and related details. It can only help the Chinese and Russian military improve their abilities to attack the US.
Because in the US we have freedom of the press and that means one-up-mans-ship in order to make $$. Sad but true.
You'll never see this in Russia or China but they don't have the freedoms we have.
Michael,
You are right and, in any case, the Russian and Chines spying services must know it.
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