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“I don’t think they’ve put two first-line nuclear subs off the U.S. coast in about 15 years,” said Norman Polmar, a naval historian and expert on submarine warfare.
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Hm. It looks like I am not understand well, what he was exactly meaning. There were Russian submarie patrols in various areas for all over the last 15 years, even in the poorest 1990s. Now, when we have money for keeping ships and subs in active service the fleet returns to the ocean.
http://www.fas.org/programs/ssp/nukes/images/ruspat.jpg
BTW , last year we had the largest naval exercises since 1990.
http://img-fotki.yandex.ru/get/3100/...5abac34_XL.jpg
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In a perfect world, we were aware of their departure and tracked them from the Gap all the way to the US East Coast via many methods.
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Actually, its not only Russia were military degradated compairing to the CW level.
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I think that no one has asked the question because the answer is obvious: The Russian leadership wants to send the message that Russia is, once again, big and strong and 'back on the scene'.
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For the same reason that we've probably had subs patrolling off of Murmansk for years.
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This is the only practical reasen what nuclear submarines are for.
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On a serious note... I hope we're trailing them... and I'm sure that we knew where they were every step of the way. Its the fact that we tracked them here
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Acytually,
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According to Defense Department officials, one of the Russian submarines remained in international waters on Tuesday about 200 miles off the coast of the United States. The location of the second remained unclear. One senior official said the second submarine traveled south in recent days toward Cuba, while another senior official with access to reports on the surveillance mission said it had sailed away in a northerly direction.
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In this case I would ask why it cause such interest then? They were in 1993, 1995, 1998, etc there.
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under this administration, the Russian captains were probably invited over for a drink!
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Would be a good reason for international co-operation. Visits are better than patrol missions.:up: |
