There’s flexibility and there’s accommodation. Maybe Obama wants to offer the Soviets a base in Florida. Much more convenient than Cuba.
Strange, because I heard that the U.S. Navy sent the fleet in Norfolk out to sea to avoid Sandy. Ships at anchorage bang into things.
I'd expect that the last place you'd go in a nuc boat is into ANY harbor during a storm and especially a harbor full of potential adversaries with cameras and other surveillance equipment. Assuming this isn't a wholesale fabrication, was it possible to get a hotel room in Jacksonville, or did the intelligence agencies have them booked solid?
I imagine it sailing away again covered in everything from graffiti to hull-attached transponders and trailing a bunch of tin cans on strings- the naval equivalent of falling asleep drunk at a rowdy frat party. :-)
Nuclear subs travel so far beneath the sea’s storm surges that they do not have to “port” in any storm.
This article is CRAP. If the sub ported, it certainly was not because of hurrican Sandy.
Nuclear subs travel so far beneath the sea’s storm surges that they do not have to “port” in any storm.
This article is CRAP. If the sub ported, it certainly was not because of hurricane Sandy.
Nuclear powered attack submarines have no need to surface into the middle of a hurricane, unless thunseaworthy about them. So, why would a Russian nuclear powered attack submarine need a safe harbor in a U.S. port unless the boat was in distress?
Subs go way down in the ocean, and again I imagine there's not that much hurricane activity (I'm sure there's some .. ) a thousand or more feet below the surface, soooo .. why does it need a safe harbor ?
By what method did we deem it 'safe' and allow it safe harbor ?
So now we have a Russian attack sub, tricked out for war .. invited into the house after they rang the bell and said, "trick or treat"
?????
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/2955363/posts
http://freebeacon.com/russian-subs-skirt-coast/
Ridiculous! Subs go under the water for safe refuge in storm. What a bunch of socially promoted, naive, pretenders in DC to allow this move.
Really, in a world of suicide bombings what exactly stops the sub from launching on DC to achieve victory by mugging. MAD? I wouldn’t trust that doctrine anymore with this commie sympathizing Potemkin President and his czars pulling strings.
‘Hunt for Red October’ or Target Practice?
We have an Islamic radical in the White House and Russia can’t trust him!
Election monitors. Everyone else seems to think it’s OK to stick their nose into our elections.
Maybe Putin wanted to see what he was getting for his money to support Hussein’s re-election.
Just Russia needing to pick up its spies prior to the administration change!
It was given safe harbor?? Baloney.........
Safe harbor, a nice warm meal and the democrats sent a bus to drive them all to the nearest voting location.
Makes no sense. There is something they are not telling us.
Perhaps there is a really good BBQ joint in Jacksonville.
A submarine seeking safe harbor from a storm at sea? This is BS ... a submarine simply dives to say 450 ft. and cruises along with little or no disturbance from wave action above.
“Russian attack sub...”
If it was French would it be a “retreat sub?”