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Nuclear submarines off US coast 'nothing to worry about' says Russia
Times Online (U.K.) ^ | August 5, 2009 | Nico Hines

Posted on 08/05/2009 10:19:19 AM PDT by Schnucki

Moscow accused the United States of hysteria today after reports that Russian nuclear submarines were patrolling off the East Coast of America.

Russian officials responded vehemently to accusations that they were dabbling in Cold War-style cat-and-mouse manoeuvring but did not deny that two vessels had entered international waters just 200 miles of the US coast.

“Activities of Russian submarines in the world’s oceans outside their own waters do not violate international maritime law and are within normal practice,” a military-diplomatic source told the Russian state media.

US defence and intelligence officials told the New York Times that two Akula class nuclear-powered submarines had approached the US a few days after Vladmir Putin was photographed testing a Russian submarine during his holiday in Siberia.

The Russian military source said that Moscow would not comment on the location of its fleet and suggested that the US should also refrain from discussing their whereabouts.

“The Russian navy systematically pinpoints the location of NATO submarines, including US Navy submarines, in direct proximity to the territorial waters of the Russian Federation," the official said.

“This however has never been a reason to make a lot of noise in the press... consequently, any hysteria in such a case is inappropriate."

US officials claimed that the Pentagon is concerned by the first such military move in more than a decade.

The episode does not appear to pose any immediate threat to the United States, but it echoes the Soviet and US military tit-for-tat measures taken during the Cold War when Moscow and Washington routinely sent submarines towards one another’s coasts to gather intelligence and track fleet movements.

A senior US Defence Department official said: “Any time the Russian Navy does something so out of the ordinary it is cause for worry.

“We’ve known where they were and

(Excerpt) Read more at timesonline.co.uk ...


TOPICS: Foreign Affairs; Russia
KEYWORDS: bhorussia; coldwar; coldwar2; russia; russiannavy; russkiesop; usa; wargames
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1 posted on 08/05/2009 10:19:20 AM PDT by Schnucki
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To: Schnucki

The ruskies know they can do what they want with the marxist fraud in power here. They have a huge dossier on the quisling, of that I’m sure.


2 posted on 08/05/2009 10:21:37 AM PDT by pissant (THE Conservative party: www.falconparty.com)
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To: Schnucki

And the Russian officials would be correct, if anyone in the White House had a pair.....


3 posted on 08/05/2009 10:22:01 AM PDT by The_Victor (If all I want is a warm feeling, I should just wet my pants.)
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To: Schnucki

Perhaps the russians are just trying to make us more like them....free enterprise capitalists????


4 posted on 08/05/2009 10:22:50 AM PDT by Vaquero ("an armed society is a polite society" Robert A. Heinlein)
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5 posted on 08/05/2009 10:23:33 AM PDT by stevecmd
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To: Schnucki

As a former Cold War P-3 sailor, what we are seeing is a return to the Cold War tactics. The USSR and the US routinely engaged in a variety if surveillance techniques to measure each other’s defenses and readiness in those days.

Right now, thanks to zero, we’re flunking and Putin knows it!!


6 posted on 08/05/2009 10:25:14 AM PDT by DustyMoment (FloriDUH - proud inventors of pregnant/hanging chads and judicide!!)
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To: The_Victor
if anyone in the White House had a pair.....

...of Ears?

7 posted on 08/05/2009 10:26:19 AM PDT by Puppage (You may disagree with what I have to say, but I shall defend to your death my right to say it)
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To: Schnucki

Russia, get your crap away from America or we will blow them out of the water. That SHOULD be the American response, but, we have obama....


8 posted on 08/05/2009 10:27:29 AM PDT by vpintheak (Like a muddied spring or a polluted well is a righteous man who gives way to the wicked. Prov. 25:26)
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To: DustyMoment

Same here, being a Cold War ASW puke on Knox Class (1052) frigates. We were constantly on the lookout for these things, and got rewarded well, when we were able to either bring them up to periscope depth or surface. Nothing like Surf & Turf after a hard 5 to 12 hours tracking these idiots...


9 posted on 08/05/2009 10:30:38 AM PDT by shredderman (Living in a Blue State, with a Blue Wife, But I'm Red to the bone.....)
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To: pissant

“The ruskies know they can do what they want with the marxist fraud in power here”

How’s this for a scenario....

The Kenyan Imposter is exposed a foreigner. He refuses to relinquish office. While still constitutionally the president, and the only one who can issue nuke launch codes, he asks his Ruskie buddies to nuke a small city...say Alabama.

The Kenyan gets on TV and tells America, submit or die.

Now that would make a good movie. Wonder if we could get Will Smith or Denzel to play the Kenya Imposter?


10 posted on 08/05/2009 10:34:39 AM PDT by y6162 (uish..)
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To: Schnucki

SOSUS still active? Anyone?


11 posted on 08/05/2009 10:36:53 AM PDT by meandog (Doh!)
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To: shredderman
Same here, being a Cold War ASW puke on Knox Class (1052) frigates.

I was in a LAMPS helo squadron operating off of Knox Class frigates.

12 posted on 08/05/2009 10:41:04 AM PDT by shorty_harris
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To: shorty_harris

HSL-32 or 34?


13 posted on 08/05/2009 10:55:08 AM PDT by shredderman (Living in a Blue State, with a Blue Wife, But I'm Red to the bone.....)
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To: Schnucki

Title — Nuclear submarines off US coast ‘nothing to worry about’ says Russia

Ummm..., can we do the same? :-) ...


14 posted on 08/05/2009 10:56:27 AM PDT by Star Traveler (The God of Abraham, Isaac and Jacob is a Zionist and Jerusalem is the apple of His eye.)
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img src=<”http://www.topnews.in/files/missile302.jpg";>

There is nothing to worry about comrades.


15 posted on 08/05/2009 11:06:20 AM PDT by I Hate Obama ("Life Is Like A Box of Chocolates, You Never Know What You're Gonna Get." -Forest Gump)
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Dang I’ll just stop trying to post pictures.


16 posted on 08/05/2009 11:06:45 AM PDT by I Hate Obama ("Life Is Like A Box of Chocolates, You Never Know What You're Gonna Get." -Forest Gump)
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To: Star Traveler

Saw the graphic on FNC. Those Akula class subs are getting the signatures of our Boomers at King’s Bay U.S. Navy boomer base in S.E. Georgia, just north of Jacksonville. And, yes, we do the same.


17 posted on 08/05/2009 11:11:33 AM PDT by jslade (N)
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To: shredderman

HSL-31 & 35 (West Coast). I was on the Gray (FF-1054), Hammond (FF-1064), Lockwood (FF-1067) and Chicago (CG-11).


18 posted on 08/05/2009 11:11:51 AM PDT by shorty_harris
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To: DustyMoment

Yeah, but what a boon to the ASW industry. It’s not been doing that great lately.


19 posted on 08/05/2009 11:12:11 AM PDT by stuartcr (Everything happens as God wants it to...otherwise, things would be different.)
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To: meandog

Need to know?


20 posted on 08/05/2009 11:13:00 AM PDT by stuartcr (Everything happens as God wants it to...otherwise, things would be different.)
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