For the first time, the Northern Fleet spoke about the operation, which spoiled a lot of nerves for the command of the US Navy. In 2013, the nuclear submarines of the Northern Fleet came unnoticed to the Gulf of Mexico and settled at a missile strike distance near one of the main bases of American submarines.

Our submarines were tasked with taking positions in the area of ​​the naval bases of the United States of America. The task was carried out with honor. The boats remained unnoticed until they themselves identified themselves in these areas, and then secretly returned to the base, - the commander of the division of nuclear-powered ships, Captain First Rank Sergey Starshinov, told Zvezda TV channel.

Submarines of project 971 "Pike-B" participated in the campaign. The names of the ships, of course, are not reported, but the divisional commander spoke about the operation on the pier among two representatives of this series, also called "cat" because of the names of the submarines. Submarines "Panther" and "Tiger" - one of the newest, they were transferred to the fleet in 1990-93. "Panther" in 2006-2008 underwent a major overhaul with modernization - in particular, the ship's torpedo tubes were adapted to launch Caliber-PL cruise missiles. The "Tiger" was originally designed for increased stealth.

However, stealth is a distinctive feature of any representative of the series. In 1996, "Pike-B" passed into the Mediterranean Sea. The US Navy spotted it while passing Gibraltar and tried to pursue it, but the submarine broke away from surveillance and unnoticed itself watched American submarines - including strike ones, such as Los Angeles.

In the same year, a submarine under the command of Captain First Rank Alexei Burilichev in a remote area of ​​the Atlantic, an American strategic nuclear-powered icebreaker, and, without revealing itself, followed its exit to the combat patrol area. After this campaign, Burilichev became a Hero of Russia.

A funny incident occurred during NATO anti-submarine maneuvers off the coast of Great Britain. After the exercises to search for submarines were successfully completed, a submarine unnoticed by anyone surfaced in the middle of the order of British ships and asked for help - the sailor had an attack of appendicitis, an urgent operation was needed in the hospital. The sailor was rescued, and the same "Pike" was identified in the submarine.

Help "RG"

In the southeast of the United States, in the state of Georgia, the American naval base Kings Bay is located - one of the two main bases for nuclear submarines on the Atlantic coast. Here is the headquarters of the 10th group of submarines and two squadrons of Ohio-class strategic nuclear-powered ships with Trident II ballistic missiles on board. From neutral waters to Kings Bay - less than 50 miles. For Caliber, this is a minute of flight ...

This is not the first time that foreign media have written that the relationship between the US and NATO with Russia is more reminiscent of the "second cold war" than dialogue and exchange of views. The frankly unfriendly policy of the United States towards Russia in recent years raises a reasonable question among many experts - how to ensure the country's security and integrity? Submarine officers of the Russian Navy and nuclear submarines are ready to answer this question. After all, the impenetrable American “protection” has already been hacked several times by them. Radio Engineering Ensemble To be the commander of a submarine combat unit is both an honor and a huge headache at the same time. Being the commander of a combat unit of a submarine with missile weapons on board in the midst of a crisis that could turn into a nuclear strike at any moment is doubly a headache. The personnel of the BC-7 even in peacetime had (and have) had a hard time, but being the eyes and ears of a submarine in a difficult historical period - when two states, the Soviet Union and the United States were teetering on the verge of an exchange of nuclear strikes, specialists had to "hear "And "look out" for a potential enemy with tripled vigilance. It is difficult to say when the first order came to the headquarters of the Navy to carry out tracking of the ships and objects of a potential enemy, but the intensity and sharpness of the cat-and-mouse games took place under water, and on its surface from the beginning of the 60s suggests the idea of ​​great hopes for these events. However, in addition to campaigns with missiles to protect friendly Cuba during the Caribbean crisis, submarine commanders were ordered to perform other, to put it mildly, difficult tasks - to get through control zones, not to find themselves, to report at the right time, if the situation so requires, to make a “deliberate detection”. By the way, it was the “deliberate detection” that often became the main task of the campaign - to pass through the blockade ring in Cuba and surface next to an unsuspecting US Navy ship - a cunning psychological trick from which you cannot recover right away. Another important task was to determine at what frequencies, with what parameters and intensity all foreign ship and any other electronics work. Submarine officers recall that, in terms of the coherence of the work of reconnaissance equipment during the Caribbean crisis, the work of the crew resembled a real radio engineering ensemble - each sailor clearly did what he was taught. And although it never came to a real war with the use of torpedoes and repelling an attack, the result combat campaigns of submarines during the Caribbean crisis became perhaps the first database on the frequencies and operating ranges of American radars, hydroacoustic stations, and much more. United States, but in reality everything happened exactly the opposite - almost immediately after the Caribbean crisis, four submarines were deployed to the east coast of the United States, including the Project 629 K-153 submarine, which was armed with three R-13 ballistic missiles that could wipe out the land of the whole state. "The Black Prince" and the Trouble at the White House The detection of a submarine near its own borders was and remains the main condition for their destruction. There are many ways to detect an enemy submarine - active and passive sensors, electronic intelligence and much more. But none of them guarantees the detection of an object, on the secrecy of which specialists of design bureaus have been working for decades. sensors, modernized their own surface fleet and began to include ships equipped with advanced sonar stations and modern sound direction finding systems. By the beginning of the 80s, everything was ready and it seemed that "the enemy would not pass." But unexpectedly for the US Navy, an incident occurred that even the President of the United States could not immediately believe in the reality of. In 1983, off the Atlantic coast of the United States, the crew of the frigate McCloy began testing the latest towed sonar submarine detection system. The key component of this system was an ultra-sensitive submersible sonar, which the crew of the frigate threw into the sea like a net. The McCloy frigate was guarded from uninvited guests by the Philadelphia nuclear submarine, a modern nuclear submarine equipped with advanced detection tools. In parallel with the American frigate, all data on the latest submarine detection system was recorded by the Soviet submarine K-324, which moved under the belly of the McCloy frigate during tests of the GAS. Having finished the test work and received an order to return to base, the McCloy frigate abruptly changed course and began to pick up speed. A moment later, the hull of the Soviet submarine shook, and the reactor, together with the turbine, switched to emergency, or, as it is also called, "safe" mode. The ship's commander decided not to tempt fate and gave the order to surface to assess the situation and the nature of the malfunction. After blowing out the ballast and reaching the surface, it became clear that the boat had wound a submersible hydroacoustic station on the propeller, tearing off a hundred meters of strong cable along the way. The fact of the loss of unique secret equipment "in their backyard" in the White House was not immediately realized. Historians note that the report on the failure of the tests caused by the appearance of the "Black Prince" (as the US military called the submarines of this project for the contours of the hull) at first even cheered up the then US President Reagan, but when it came to the 40th US President that the report about what had happened no joke, heads flew at the headquarters of the Navy, and two American destroyers were transferred to the area of ​​​​the immobilized submarine. “The plot was cleaner than Hollywood action movies. The Americans really needed a piece of cable and a sonar at the stern of the boat, but most likely, the matter would not have been limited to the seizure of their own top-secret equipment, ”says fleet historian, reserve submarine officer Otar Dzhanibekov. The anti-submarine search saga lasted for ten days, during which there was everything - both an American submarine that arrived in the area and caught on the same cable, and an operation to rescue K-324, which the commander prepared for an explosion in case the Americans boarded , and the “dances” of the US Navy destroyers around the Aldan rescue ship. After being towed to Cuba, Moscow immediately demanded the captured trophy - still, it was an incredible success to get the whole product instead of the recorded characteristics, actually from the factory. No matter how strange it may sound, but the device for detecting submarines donated by American sailors is not the main thing in the story of the K-324. The main thing remains the fact that the Soviet submarine went unnoticed by tracking and detection equipment, deceived the acoustics and radio operators of the submarine that took care of "McCloy" and pulled out from under the nose one of the main US naval secrets a few meters from the ship of a potential enemy. If this happened in a real war, both the McCloy frigate and the Philadelphia nuclear submarine would be under the threat of imminent death, and the Black Prince would continue to carry out the combat mission. Through the nets It is a very difficult task to pass into a given area, bypassing the sensors and systems of the detection zone, and not get caught by anti-submarine ships and aircraft. Considering that the crew of the K-324 was well trained and consisted of experienced submariners, one should not forget that it will not work just like that to pass through an area stuffed with highly sensitive sensors. “Such boats are quiet in themselves. They were built according to a certain principle, with a certain layout. But do not forget that the crew has special, let’s say, work algorithms - with their help, the areas in which the detection tools are located and are overcome, ”a reserve submarine officer, author of popular stories, notes in an interview with Zvezda Eduard Ovechkin about the submarines of the 941 project "Sharks of Steel" Eduard Ovechkin. A lot of time has passed since the breakthrough of the American anti-submarine shield and the "hijacking" of the hydroacoustic station - at the headquarters of the Navy and the Pentagon they made certain conclusions, modernized their own anti-submarine weapons several more times and as far as they could , tried to influence Russia of the early 90s in order to reveal real data on the program for the creation (and modernization) of the submarine fleet. Since the beginning of the 2000s, information about the duty of Russian submarines in neutral waters near the coast of the United States is almost never found, but in 2009 and 2012 there are two incidents unpleasant for the United States - information is leaking to the media that off the coast of the most The most protected country in the world is discovered by Russian submarines. The second case is especially noteworthy in that the nuclear submarine of the 971st project discovered just at that moment, when the submarine left the waters of the Gulf of Mexico. It is difficult to determine and say for sure how much a nuclear submarine with cruise missiles on board actually spent under the very nose of the US Navy, but another gap in the US Navy's anti-submarine barrier was broken. And then it’s time to recall the so-called “intentional” or “coordinated” ascent - a kind of “Shock and awe” performed by a nuclear multi-purpose submarine, indicating a huge hole through which it would not be difficult for a Russian submarine to penetrate. In February 2016, in NATO Naval Command noted with some excitement that the activity of Russian submarines had reached the level of the Cold War. In his statement Commander of the NATO Navy Clive Johnston noted that the technological level at which modern Russian nuclear submarines are implemented and the tactics of their use have not been previously encountered by NATO specialists. Despite the fact that it is extremely difficult to return to the operational activity of the times of the USSR, primarily because of the difference in the number of submarines, the Russian military-industrial complex is able to solve this issue. “The presence of modern missile weapons on board eliminates the imbalance with the number of submarines. In addition, the submarines are being modernized not only in terms of weapons, but also in terms of detection tools, and ultimately, after the work is done, their noise should also decrease - the main reason for their discovery, ”said military expert Alexei Leonkov in an interview with Zvezda. .Of course, the efforts of the US military cannot be underestimated. The world's largest military budget allows the United States to experiment with detection capabilities, and the most serious measures will be taken to protect against Russian submarines, including strategic missile submarines - including recent developments in active-passive low-frequency systems. But the potential of Russian design bureaus engaged in the development of promising nuclear submarines, which will soon be armed with hypersonic missiles, should not be discounted either. In general, drawing parallels between the modernization of the Russian submarine fleet, NATO and US assessments and activities to search for Russian submarines “at home” it is worth noting that difficult times await the US Navy in the next few years, because if the American border guards failed to respond in a timely manner to the appearance of Russian submarines near the coast of the country twice, then promising submarines, which are currently being developed by Russian design bureaus, it will be even more difficult to find near our own borders. Experts around the world rightly call Russian missile-armed nuclear submarines an “underwater sledgehammer” - these steel giants hint to their self-confident and ready for aggression colleagues that a retaliatory strike will come much sooner than it seems.

The past week has passed under the sign of "Pike". And this is not a new astrological symbol at all, but a Russian Project 971 submarine, which NATO has dubbed the Shark.

Initially, a number of media outlets reported that the Russian submarine Schuka-B showed the failure of American radars, having spent no less than a month in the waters of the Gulf of Mexico in close proximity to the coast of the United States of America. The American newspaper The Washington Free Beacon added fuel to the fire by publishing an article under the heading “Silent Movement”, in which it told its readers that the US Navy “missed” the presence of a Russian nuclear submarine with long-range cruise missiles on board in close proximity to its own. shores. The American publication reports that the radars noticed the submarine only at the moment when it had already turned on the speed and began to leave the area in which it was observing.

For some time, neither Russian nor American officials commented on this information in any way, and then suddenly, literally, as if from a cornucopia, official versions of what happened off the American coast rained down. After some thought and a search for possible answers to the “presumptuous Russians,” Wendy Schneider, a representative of the American military department, spoke. For natural reasons, Mrs. Schneider did everything to demonstrate to the world community that it was not the Russian Pike at all, but the newspaper “duck”, which many took at face value ... The Pentagon representative said that she did not understand at all what the information that came to her and her boss is based on, and indeed such information simply cannot correspond to reality.

Well, in fact, what else could the Pentagon say about this? Did anyone really think that an official representative of the defense department of the most “protected” country in the world would come out and say that yes, they say, Russian submarines are actively patrolling our American shores and sometimes pointing their periscopes to see how in the windows of the White House or personal office Leon Panetta, an unquenchable light burns ... Yes, if the Pentagon had allowed itself to speak with such equanimity, confirming the presence of Russian nuclear submarines in the immediate vicinity of the hospitable shores of the United States, then such a rustle would have risen in the American Congress that Leon Panetta would have packed his bags and ordered a taxi tomorrow not to go from the place of his "former work" (the Pentagon building) on ​​foot ...

That is why Mrs. Schneider expressed her extreme surprise that some kind of Russian submarine, the development of which began in the mid-70s of the last century, could easily overcome the anti-submarine defense system and do its job off the coast of America for a whole month.

After Mrs. Schneider's speeches, Russian officials also had to get down to business. The representative of the Russian Ministry of Defense said that the reports that came from the US media about the discovery of a Russian submarine in the Gulf of Mexico, absolutely cannot be called a sensation. Combat units of the Russian submarine fleet, since the resumption of long-distance cruises, have been constantly on duty at various points in the world's oceans. For obvious reasons, the Ministry of Defense is not going to disclose the routes of such campaigns, and therefore there is nothing scandalous or reprehensible in the news about the appearance of Russian submarines off the coast of certain countries.

From these words, it is clear that the official Russian side indirectly confirms that the Shchuka-B could well be on duty off the American coast, and if American radars spotted it only at the final stage of duty, then this, as they say, is their problem.

By the way, the fact that Russian submarines are off the coast of the United States, indeed, cannot be any sensation. As recently as 2009, the same Americans initially tried with enviable persistence to prove that there were no nuclear submarines off the coast of the United States, although after a short time the Pentagon not only recognized the fact that submarines were located at a distance of about 320 km from the east coast of the States, but also expressed concern about this fact. They say that Russian submarines, which have not appeared off our shores for 15 years, now cause us concern. Words were immediately heard about the "echo of the cold" war, which the Russians continue in relation to the "most democratic" country in the world. You might think that American warships of the submarine fleet do not go anywhere beyond their bases ...

And today, the situation with the Russian “Pike-B” is more like a performance in which the American side shouts “I don’t believe” with enviable persistence, although this just once again speaks of the Pentagon as an organization trying to assure both itself and US citizens and, most importantly, congressmen that "everything is calm in Baghdad (that is, in Washington").

But it can be said that the Pentagon has really “lost its scent” lately. After the activity of the Soviet submarine fleet came to naught, American anti-submarine systems off the coast of the United States began to gradually fall into half-asleep. And now, even if a danger sign in the form of a Russian submarine appears on the radars, then this is perceived by many as just another colorful dream: they say, yes, the Russians cannot come to our shores at such a close distance - sleep on, Johnny ...

But at least one more point is connected with the appearance of a Russian submarine in the Gulf of Mexico. The fact is that, oddly enough, it would even be beneficial for the Pentagon itself if a couple more Russian Pike quietly approached American shores. The payoff could be this: Obama has announced cuts to the military budget, and those cuts are slowly starting to materialize. And this, in the first place, can hit directly on the department of Leon Panetta, who is unlikely to want to lose a solid share of complementary foods from the US budget. Therefore, the Russian nuclear submarine has already put Mr. Panetta literally into a dead end. On the one hand, he needs to justify himself, as they say, to the party and the people, declaring that “there were no Russians,” and on the other hand, he needs to loudly declare that there were Russians in order to knock out a couple of tens of billions of dollars from the tight-fisted Obama as additional funding for anti-submarine defense, which is literally gnawed through by various "Pikes" and other underwater animals from Russia.

In general, for Russia, whether Obama will give money to Panetta or not, whether the Pentagon recognizes the fact that a Russian submarine is in the immediate vicinity of its shores or does not recognize it, is not especially important: in any case, it is necessary to continue to systematically carry out our work, giving opportunity for the country's submarine fleet to gain momentum. After all, as you know, we have only two allies who never fail ...

The Washington Free Beacon reported the discovery of a Russian nuclear submarine of the Akula project off the coast of the United States in the Gulf of Mexico.
The submarine, according to the publication, which refers to unnamed sources in US government agencies, spent about a month in the bay and was discovered at the moment when it left this territory.
The Russian submarine was present near US territorial waters from June to July 2012.
The exact dates, as well as the alleged location of the submarine during this period, are not specified.
According to the publication, the fact that the US Navy was unable to locate the submarine is a matter of concern in the power circles of the United States.
No other confirmation of the presence of a Russian submarine in the Gulf of Mexico has been received. Official comments from law enforcement agencies and US authorities are not given.
Apparently, in the message of The Washington Free Beacon it is about the submarine of project 971 "Pike-B" ("Akula" according to NATO classification). These nuclear submarines are the main type of multi-purpose submarines in the Russian Navy and differ from previous generations in an increased level of stealth.

And here is full text of material about this incident , published on August 14 in the American edition of "Washington Free Beacon".
"Russian attack nuclear submarine, armed with long-range cruise missiles, operated undetected for several weeks in the Gulf of Mexico, and its voyage in strategic US waters was only confirmed after it left the region, the Washington Free Beacon learned.
This is only the second time since 2009 that a Russian attack submarine patrolled so close to American shores.
A stealthy submarine intrusion into the bay took place at exactly the same time as Russian strategic bombers invaded US restricted airspace around Alaska and California in June and July, underscoring Moscow's growing military confidence.
The submarine patrol also exposed what US officials say are shortcomings in US ASW capabilities, a service that is expected to be cut under the Obama administration's $487 billion defense spending cuts over the next 10 years.
The Navy is responsible for detecting submarines, especially those that cruise near US nuclear missile submarines and uses underwater sensors and satellites to locate and track them.
The fact that the Shark was not found in the bay is a matter of concern, US officials said.
Officials familiar with reports of submarine patrols in the Gulf of Mexico said the boat was an Akula-class nuclear submarine, one of the quietest Russian submarines.
A Navy spokeswoman declined to comment.
One of the officials stated that "Shark" operated without being detected for a month.
"Shark" was created for only one single purpose: the destruction of US Navy ballistic missile submarines and their crews.' said another US official.
"It's a very quiet boat, so it can sneak around and avoid detection and hopefully get past whatever defense system is in place for the boomer," the official said, referring to the Navy's nickname for strategic missile submarines.
The US Navy operates a strategic nuclear submarine base in Kings Bay, Georgia. Up to eight missile submarines are assigned to the base, six of them equipped with nuclear warheads and two with non-nuclear warheads.
“The dispatch of a nuclear submarine to the Caribbean Gulf of Mexico is another gesture by President Putin that demonstrates that Russia is still a player on the world military-political arena“said naval analyst and submarine warfare specialist Norman Polmar.
“Like the recent deployment of a task force led by a nuclear-powered cruiser to the Caribbean, the Russian Navy is providing it with an opportunity to ‘show the flag’, which is not available to Russian air and ground forces,” Polmar said in an email.
The last time a Shark submarine was sighted off the coast of the United States was in 2009, when two Sharks were seen patrolling off the east coast of the United States.
At that time, the submarine patrol raised concerns about the new Russian military assertiveness towards the United States, according to The New York Times, which first reported on the activities of the Akula submarine in 2009.
The latest submarine incursion into the bay further reveals the failure of the Obama administration's conciliatory "reset" policies to develop closer ties with Moscow.
Instead of these close ties under President Vladimir Putin, a former KGB intelligence officer who has said he wants to restore elements of Russia's Soviet communist past, Russia is adopting an increasingly harsh policy toward the United States.
Regarding underwater activity, Senator John Cornyn (R., Tex.), a member of the Senate Armed Services Committee, said: “This impasse results from a lack of leadership in our relationship with Moscow. While the President is touting our supposed "reset" with Russia, Vladimir Putin is actively working against American interests, whether in Syria or here in our own backyard.».
The Navy is facing massive cuts in forces designed to detect and counter such submarine attacks.
The Obama administration's defense budget proposal in February calls for a $1.3 billion cut in shipbuilding projects for the navy, which will revise plans to build 16 new warships by 2017.
The budget also outlines plans to reduce purchases of the 10 advanced P-8 anti-submarine aircraft needed to detect submarines.
In June, Russian strategic nuclear bombers and support aircraft conducted a large-scale nuclear bomber exercise in the Arctic. The exercise consisted of simulated strikes against "enemy" strategic targets, which Defense Department officials said likely included simulated strikes against US missile defense sites in Alaska.
Under the terms of the new Strategic Arms Reduction and Limitation Treaty of 2010, such exercises require 14 days prior notice of strategic bomber training, and notification after the end of the exercise. No such notice has been received.
Second, worrying an air breach occurred on the 4th of July on the West Coast when a Bear strategic bomber entered US airspace near California and was met by US interceptors.
It was said that this breach was a bomber invasion that had not been seen even before the fall of the Soviet Union in 1991.
Whether the submarine in the Gulf of Mexico was a Shark 1 or the more advanced Shark 2 cannot be determined.
Also, the goals of the operation carried out by the submarine are not known. Among the assumptions of American analysts there is such that the submarine invasion was intended as another sign of Russian dissatisfaction with US and NATO plans to deploy missile defense in Europe.
Russian Chief of General Staff General of the Army Nikolai Makarov said in May that the Russian military would consider pre-emptive strikes against the US and its missile defense allies in Europe, and said missile defense was a destabilizing factor in a crisis.
In July, Makarov met with Army General Martin Dempsey, chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff. Dempsey asked him about flights of Russian strategic bombers near US territory.
The submarine voyage could also be part of Russia's efforts to export the Shark.
In 2009, Russia delivered one of its Shark-2 submarines to India. The submarine has a developed tail unit.
The Brazilian newspaper O Estado de Sao Paoli reported on August 2 that Russia plans to sell up to 11 new submarines to Venezuela, including the Sharks.
Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov said Moscow's military was working on upgrading naval supply bases in Vietnam and Cuba, but denied there were plans to base naval forces in those states.
Answering the question whether Russia plans to deploy a naval base in Cuba, on July 28, Lavrov said: “There is no question of any base ... In modern conditions, our fleet performs tasks throughout the world's oceans. To call at the port, replenish supplies, give the crew a rest - this is an absolutely natural need. We talked about this possibility with our Cuban friends.” The commentary was published on the website of the Russian Foreign Ministry.
Russian warships and support vessels were sent to Venezuela in 2008 to take part in naval exercises in Russia's support for Hugo Chávez's left-wing regime. Ships also called at Cuba.
In February, Russian Deputy Prime Minister Dmitry Rogozin announced that Russia was working on a plan to build 10 new torpedo submarines and 10 new missile submarines by 2030, along with new aircraft carriers.
Submarine warfare specialists claim that the Shark remains the backbone of the Russian strike submarine fleet.
The submarines can fire both cruise missiles and torpedoes and are equipped with SS-N-21 and SS-N-27 submarine-launched cruise missiles and SS-N-15 anti-submarine missiles. Submarines can also lay mines.
SS-N-21 has a range of up to 1,860 km."

Note:

* - according to NATO classification. (Project 971 "Pike-B")

The case is so interesting that comments are needed.
Here are some opinions from internet forums.

"One of my acquaintances served in aviation on an anti-submarine reconnaissance aircraft or something like that. He said that finding a submarine is such a rare success, for which military medals were given in peacetime."

"Ours "accidentally" let themselves be discovered. In other words, they "lighted up." There are versions of what the hint is timed to?

"Firstly, the Russian nuclear submarine was on combat duty, on a solo voyage, without a surface cover and support group. And the submarine commander made a serious mistake, allowing himself to be detected in the coastal zone. Because in accordance with the directives of the US Navy, all single , unidentified submarines found in the area of ​​​​a two-hundred-mile coastal zone, as well as in the zone of reach of the outposts of surface groups, are subject to immediate prosecution and destruction.

Original taken from nordic in Pindos trolled

PROJECT 955 Borey SSBN SURFACED IN LONG ISLAND STRAIT

Today's appearance of a Russian nuclear submarine a kilometer from Manhattan and the Statue of Liberty caused not only panic in the Pentagon, but breaking news and mortal horror that gripped all Americans without exception. Public opinion polls made an hour after the Borea surfaced showed that the frightened Americans, having felt an unpleasant chill from someone else's military presence in their home and had time to examine the "Russian death machine" in all details off their coasts, demand an immediate cessation of the campaign in Afghanistan, and also curtailing military preparations against Syria and Iran.
As it turned out, the US Navy simply missed the moment the Borey submarine, also known as Project 955, surfaced within line of sight of the American coast. The vaunted US tracking systems did not record the movement of our submarine.
According to a representative of the Ministry of Defense of the Russian Federation, the emergence of our submarine in the immediate vicinity of New York and its entry into US territorial waters was “Absolutely absurd accident. The ship’s navigational instruments failed at the submarine and, in order to orient, the commander of the submarine was forced to unmask himself and give the command to ascent. on the island of Manhattan.
“We ask the Americans not to consider this a response to the regular appearances in the immediate vicinity of the borders of the territorial sea of ​​the Russian Federation of US Navy submarines. True, it is worth adding that we always record the appearance of American submarines, as well as their movements. And the Americans, as it turned out, can not always do this. And only a case helped us to reveal this, ”the interlocutor of the TV reporter emphasized the word“ case ”with intonation.
Ministry of Defense experts believe that the Americans simply do not have the ability to reliably track the movements of this class of submarines: “Although it was believed that the Americans had problems exclusively with tracking our titanium-hulled submarines (Project 945 Barracuda), it turns out that submarines from with a steel case, they can easily miss, - a representative of the RF Ministry of Defense told the NTV correspondent. - We will continue to carry out combat duty off the coast of the United States, we do not violate any international agreements. And the incident that happened is pure accident and should not be regarded as a provocation.”
The fears of the Americans are understandable, and there are two reasons for this. First, the ascent of our submarine revealed gaps in the Pentagon's underwater tracking systems, which will not be so easy to fix. Secondly, Borey-class submarines and their latest modifications can be equipped by no means only with Granat cruise missiles (the Americans call them SS-N-21 "Sampson"). Although they easily fly not only to the coast, but also much further, to almost any major US city. There is something to worry about. The most offensive thing for the Americans is that Russia does not violate international maritime law in such cases and they are not in a position to forbid us combat patrols. One hope is that we have few submarines of this class and, unfortunately, we will not be able to constantly play on the Pentagon's nerves.
Independent international experts assure that the Americans will certainly draw conclusions that are beneficial to us: “US nuclear submarines conduct more patrols than the Russian, French, British and Chinese nuclear submarine fleets combined, they are frequent visitors near your territorial waters. They pretty much spoil the Russians' nerves. Perhaps now they will act with an eye to the fact that your submariners can do a lot. Albeit “accidentally.” But here is what is characteristic: the pseudo-liberal Russian TV channels seem to have taken water in their mouths and are unanimously silent about this obvious military success of the Russian Armed Forces. The only TV channel that was widely noted in the news release was NTV, which was interviewed by representatives of the Ministry of Defense. The rest are shyly silent. But what jubilation reigned on them when the national team left Euro 2012! You begin to believe that there really are people among our colleagues who sincerely believe that "the worse it is for Russia, the better."