{"id":104049,"date":"2020-08-22T11:00:44","date_gmt":"2020-08-22T15:00:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=104049"},"modified":"2020-08-22T08:38:48","modified_gmt":"2020-08-22T12:38:48","slug":"update-on-russia-and-its-submarines","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=104049","title":{"rendered":"Update on Russia and Its Submarines"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Russian nuclear submarine Dmitry Donskoy sails under the Great Belt Bridge in Denmark<\/span><\/h5>\n
on its way to Saint Petersburg, July 21, 2017.\u00a0Scanpix Denmark\/Sarah Christine Noergaard via Reuters<\/span><\/span><\/h5>\n

About Russian subs: are they trying to poke the lion? Again? After all these years?<\/p>\n

They\u2019re doing a lot of maneuvering in the Atlantic, have been for several months now. Either they have more money to spend on this kind of thing, or they\u2019re just playing peek-a-boo to see what happens. \u00a0Most likely is that they are simply testing the waters the way the waters were tested during the days of the Cold War.<\/p>\n

https:\/\/www.businessinsider.com\/russia-subs-getting-busier-and-harder-to-track-in-atlantic-2020-2<\/a><\/p>\n

From the article:\u00a0 NATO navies have\u00a0played cat-and-mouse<\/a>\u00a0with\u00a0Russian subs around Europe<\/a>, and when it comes to keeping track of them, Wolters told lawmakers on Tuesday that his command had sufficient visibility, “but not for 100% of the time.”<\/p>\n

The US and its allies in NATO have in recent years dedicated more attention to anti-submarine warfare, a skill they let atrophy in the years after the Cold War, as attention shifted to ground conflicts in the Middle East.<\/p>\n

Lewis, the commander of US 2nd Fleet, said earlier this month that\u00a0his command is “relearning” that ASW<\/a>\u00a0is “an all-domain fight.”<\/p>\n

“It’s a fight in the air. It’s on the surface. It’s in the subsurface down to the seabed, and it’s in space,” Lewis said.<\/p>\n

To that end, NATO navies have put better gear on their ships and are buying new platforms \u2014 chief among them\u00a0the P-8 Poseidon<\/a>, considered the best sub-hunting aircraft on the market.<\/p>\n

The British air force, seeking to restore\u00a0a capability it has lacked<\/a>\u00a0for years,\u00a0received<\/a>\u00a0the first of nine P-8s at the end of October, and Norway has ordered five of them.<\/p>\n

Those two countries and the US worked together closely during the Cold War to keep an eye on\u00a0the Greenland-Iceland-UK Gap<\/a>, a chokepoint through which submarines have to pass between the Atlantic and Arctic oceans. – article<\/p>\n

I doubt that Vlad Putin really wants a war, when the reality is that he wants cash. But he may be waxing nostalgic for them there Good Ol’ Days of the the Cold War and wants to rattle NATO’s doors now and then.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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