Swedish Military 'not interested' in Soviet sub wreck

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Originally Posted by TLAM Strike

Ok how? send a recovery ship out to raise the sub? Nope. Send in divers and cut the sub open and remove the torpedoes. Maybe.

I wouldn't worry about it. Finucan and Vendor have already cited sources for the Soviets being willing to overtly go to great lenghts to recover subs lost in Swedish waters. Given that, odds are that the Soviets didn't even know what happened to the sub, regardless of the payload, so my assessment was probably wrong. Sometimes I forget that these are Soviets we're talking about, here.

The Russians did have several 533mm nuclear torpedoes; the 53-58 (in service 1968), and they had a special warhead they could afix to a normal torpedo as needed even at sea (in service 1962).

I had to look that one up, but you're right. Actually, I owe you a "thank you" because I was heretofore all but certain that the Whiskey-class used a smaller-diameter torpedo but I was totally wrong.