“including a nuclear submarine”
That’s the only one you know about. Guaranteed there’s another 4-5 boomers in the Gulf.
Kinda makes you sober up from the sword rattling a little, don’t it?
“That’s the only one you know about. Guaranteed there’s another 4-5 boomers in the Gulf.”
Why would they have 5 in the Gulf?
Just checking out the shore-leave potential in Venezuela. Nothing to worry about.
Absolutely guarantee that there are not Russian boomers in the Gulf of Mexico.
They stay in the White Sea and Barents Sea, to stay under as much ASW protection as possible. The Russians sent a destroyer, an oiler, a tug and a submarine. These are the ‘four warships’ the Russians trust sending across the Atlantic and not having to tow home.
“That’s the only one you know about. Guaranteed there’s another 4-5 boomers in the Gulf.”
Having been involved in supplying equipment to the NSA, the Navy, NASA and other agencies I have a pretty good idea of the capabilities the military has for tracking. If the Navy loses track of a Russian or Chinese sub, even a diesel boat, they will move heaven and Earth to relocate it. When Russian or Chinese boats go on patrol, they are likely to be shadowed. Also, we have underwater listening posts all over the world. Several decades ago, when the USS Scorpion was lost, they found it by correlating data from equipment thousands of miles away from the sinking’s location. That was 1968. If there are subs in the Gulf, the Navy knows exactly where they are. It would be foolish to send a missile boat into a cul-de-sac when the missiles it carries have a range of thousands of miles. While there are lots of things to worry about, this isn’t one of them.
Boomers in which Gulf? The Gulf of Mexico? Whose boomers--the Russians?
First of all, Russia would be hard-pressed to send 4-5 boomer submarines to anywhere at one time, much less the Gulf of Mexico. Boomer submarines go on patrols and their mission is to stay undetected, unless called upon to launch their missiles. That mission would fail in the Gulf of Mexico. There'd be a US fast-attack submarine following each one of them, waiting for those boomers to make a twitch.
If you meant to suggest that there might be additional US subs monitoring this "armada," you can be most assured that there are. They just won't be US boomers, they'll be US fast-attacks, keeping a close eye on things.