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 worlds 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 anothers 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.
Weve known where they were and
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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.
And the Russian officials would be correct, if anyone in the White House had a pair.....
Perhaps the russians are just trying to make us more like them....free enterprise capitalists????
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!!
...of Ears?
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....
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...
“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?
SOSUS still active? Anyone?
I was in a LAMPS helo squadron operating off of Knox Class frigates.
HSL-32 or 34?
Title — Nuclear submarines off US coast ‘nothing to worry about’ says Russia
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Ummm..., can we do the same? :-) ...
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There is nothing to worry about comrades.
Dang I’ll just stop trying to post pictures.
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.
HSL-31 & 35 (West Coast). I was on the Gray (FF-1054), Hammond (FF-1064), Lockwood (FF-1067) and Chicago (CG-11).
Yeah, but what a boon to the ASW industry. It’s not been doing that great lately.
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