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Operation Atrina 2?
Something big is currently ongoing up North: Several sources have reported that 10 Russian submarines belonging to the Northern Fleet have put to sea submerged. 8 of those are nuclear powered.
At the moment, several of them are being tracked in the Norwegian and Barents Seas.
Experts think the Russians might send several of those subs toward the GIUK gap. It might be a simple rush to the GIUK gap or an opportunity to push further and see how many subs they can send to the Atlantic or US Eastern Seaboard undetected.
It's been done by the Soviets before as we wrote on this page in early October: in March 1987, the Soviet Navy launched Operation Atrina: 5 Victor III belonging to the 33rd submarine division of Polyarnyy put to sea at once. They first triggered the SOSUS line near the UK then vanished!
Both Washington and London were alarmed: Why would Moscow simultaneously deploy 5 of its best submarines?! A massive Western ASW response was triggered: 1 British aircraft carrier (HMS Hilustrious) and several other RN vessels alongside RAF Nimrods, 3 USN aircraft carriers and 6 USN attack submarines all deployed in search of the red submarines.
Th Brits and Americans first looked for the Soviet subs near the Mediteranean entrance before realising they were actually crossing the Atlantic! Never had the Soviets dared to deploy en-force near the US East Coast since the Cuban missile crisis!
What were the Soviet doing? Well, they wanted to test two theories: One, they wanted to know if their best submarines could evade pursuit after having been detected. They also wanted to test the theory that American boomers were hiding in the Sargasso Sea.
It took the British and the Americans 8 days to find 4 out of the 5 Victors. During that time, the British Nimrods used an entire year worth of sonobuoys supply!
What about the 5th Victor, then? Well, it depends on who you ask... The British say they eventually found it. They say it was better maintained and much better ran than the other 4. The Soviet captain was also bolder and sailed his ship more agressively and more silently than his colleages... A Trafalgar class sub finally tracked him down but had to stay perilously close to keep contact. Close enough to be detected by his adversary. As for the Soviet version of the story, it says the 5th Victor remained undetected.
By the end of the Cold War, the Soviets were slowly closing the qualitative gap with the West: in 1989, seven Soviet subs were known to be at sea but The neither the Americans nor the British could find them...
Nobody is really sure of what the Russian Northern Fleet is up to, right now, but this is the largest Russian submarine deployment/exercise seen since the end of the Cold War...
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An active duty U.S. Navy officer, his wife, and two Chinese nationals have been arrested and charged with attempting to smuggle military style boats and outboard motors to China
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Delta Force sniper Sgt. 1st Class James P. McMahon, one of the survivors of the October 1993 battle in Mogadishu, Somalia that claimed the lives of 18 U.S. service members, died Nov. 5. He was 64.
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