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Originally Posted by Oberon
I'm thinking post Whiskey on the Rocks, I mean there are many who suspect NATO of sending subs up there to spook the Swedish into maintaining a hardline anti-Soviet stance, and the part of me that is a sneaky little sod would agree with that suspicion. Likewise it's entirely likely that the Soviets sent subs in there to see what the Swedes were up to, I mean I find it very hard to believe that a navigational error caused that Whiskey to ground itself. They were supposed to be there, but they took the wrong turning and ran aground...then there's the question of whether she had nuclear weapons on board.
Things like that, it's very hard to get a definite answer.
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Regarding the incident of the U 137 or S-363 as she was called, (Karlskrona, Blekinge, October 27, 1981) the violation was deliberate and part of illegal activities against Sweden, and nothing wrong with the navigational instruments that the Russians claimed then, and even some time later, the violation has been going on several other, more strategic locations, and not only from the Soviets even NATO has had his finger in the game,I am familiar with the waters surrounding Karlskrona archipelago, and it requires great skills to take control device right there is very hindered, and I am not on the net or another,but rather a natural environment of rocks and the very shallow water.U 137 was far more dangerous than what has been known. If the Swedish armed forces stormed the submarine crew had
orders to blow up the submarine with a nuclear disaster,nuclear torpedoes were therefore.