U.S. Navy: Russian Submarines Are Getting Harder To Find

Russian Black Sea Fleet's B-265 Krasnodar Improved Kilo-class submarine. Russian MoD

Business Insider: Russia's submarines are getting harder to find, and the Navy is sending more people to keep an eye on them

* The Russian navy, its submarine force in particular, is getting more sophisticated and becoming more active around Europe.
* The US and NATO are aware of this, and the US Navy is responding to a more complex environment with more robust command and control.

The Russian sub fleet is growing and growing more active, and the US and its NATO partners are more concerned about what those boats and rest of the Russian navy are up to around Europe.

For the US Navy, that means more focus on the Atlantic, especially the North Atlantic, closer to the home base of Russia's Northern Fleet on the Barents Sea.

At the end of September, the Navy reestablished Submarine Group 2 in Norfolk, Virginia, five years after the unit was deactivated. The reactivation comes just over a year after the Navy reestablished its Second Fleet, which oversees the western half of the Atlantic up into the high north.

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