Original taken from nordsky Pindos trolled

PROJECT 955 BOREY SSBN SURFACES 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 releases and mortal horror that gripped all Americans without exception. Public opinion polls taken an hour after the Borei's ascent showed that frightened Americans, having felt an unpleasant chill from someone else's military presence in their home and having had time to examine the "Russian death machine" in every detail off their shores, demanded an immediate cessation of the campaign in Afghanistan, and also the curtailment of military preparations against Syria and Iran.
As it turned out, the US Navy simply missed the moment when the Borei submarine, also known as Project 955, surfaced within direct sight of the American coast. The vaunted US tracking systems did not record the movements of our submarine.
According to a representative of the Russian Ministry of Defense, the surfacing of our submarine in the immediate vicinity of New York and its entry into territorial waters The US was an “Absolutely ridiculous accident. The submarine’s navigational instruments failed and, in order to get its bearings, the commander of the submarine was forced to unmask himself and give the command to surface.” General base was extremely surprised when the commander attached photographs of the Statue of Liberty and strolling tourists on Manhattan Island to the radiogram reporting his location.
“We ask the Americans not to consider this a response to the regular appearance of US Navy submarines in the immediate vicinity of the borders of the territorial sea of ​​the Russian Federation. It’s worth adding that we always record the appearance of American submarines, as well as their movements. But Americans, as it turned out, cannot always do this. And only a case helped us identify this,” the TV reporter’s interlocutor emphasized the word “case” with intonation.
Department 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 with with a steel body they can easily miss,” a representative of the Russian Defense Ministry told an NTV correspondent. “We will continue to carry out combat duty off the coast of the United States, and we will not violate any international agreements.” And the incident that occurred is clean water an accident and should not be regarded as a provocation.”
The Americans' fears are understandable, and there are two reasons for this. Firstly, the surfacing of our submarine revealed gaps in the Pentagon's underwater tracking systems, which will not be so easy to eliminate. Secondly, Borei-class submarines and their latest modifications can be equipped not only with Granat cruise missiles (the Americans call them SS-N-21 Sampson). Although they can easily fly not only to the shore, but also much further, to almost any large city USA. There is something to worry about. The most offensive thing for the Americans is that international maritime law is not violated by Russia in such cases and they are not able to prohibit us from conducting combat patrols. Our only hope is that we have few submarines of this class and, unfortunately, we will not be able to constantly get 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 guests near your territorial waters. They really get on the nerves of Russians. Perhaps now they will act with an eye to the fact that your submariners can do a lot. Albeit “accidentally.” But here’s what’s characteristic: the pseudo-liberal Russian TV channels seem to have taken their fill of water and are unanimously silent about this obvious military success of the Russian Armed Forces. The only TV channel that was mentioned in detail in the news release was NTV, to which representatives of the Ministry of Defense gave interviews. The rest are bashfully silent. But what joy reigned upon them when the national team left Euro 2012! You begin to believe that indeed among our colleagues there are people who sincerely believe that “the worse for Russia, the better.”

For the first time, the Northern Fleet spoke about the operation, which spoiled a lot of nerves for the US Navy command. In 2013, nuclear submarines of the Northern Fleet arrived undetected in the Gulf of Mexico and positioned themselves within missile strike range of 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 completed with honor. The boats remained unnoticed until they identified themselves in these areas, and then secretly returned to the base, the commander of the nuclear-powered submarine division, captain of the first rank, Sergei Starshinov, told the Zvezda TV channel.

Project 971 Shchuka-B submarines took part in the voyage. The names of the ships, of course, are not reported, but the division commander spoke about the operation on the pier among two representatives of this series, also nicknamed “cat” because of the names of the submarines. The submarines "Panther" and "Tiger" are among the newest; they were transferred to the fleet in 1990-93. "Panther" took place in 2006-2008 major renovation with modernization - in particular, the ship’s torpedo tubes were adapted to launch Kalibr-PL cruise missiles. The "Tiger" was originally designed with increased secrecy.

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

In the same year, a submarine under the command of Captain First Rank Alexei Burilichev, in a remote area of ​​the Atlantic, was an American strategic nuclear-powered submarine and, without detecting 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 submarine search exercise was successfully completed, an unnoticed submarine surfaced in the middle of the order of British ships and asked for help - the sailor had an attack of appendicitis and needed urgent surgery in the hospital. The sailor was rescued, and the submarine was identified as the same Pike.

Help "RG"

In the southeastern 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 submarine group and two squadrons of Ohio-class strategic nuclear-powered submarines with ballistic missiles. Trident missiles II on board. From international waters to Kings Bay - less than 50 miles. For "Caliber" this is a minute of flight...

In the fall of 1983, off the coast of the United States, in the Sargasso Sea, the multi-purpose Soviet nuclear submarine K-324 surfaced. American media published photographs of a boat lying adrift, with a partially exposed propeller. Everything happened at the height of the Cold War, so Western media raised a loud cry about the mortal danger to the “free world”. The Soviet leadership remained silent, because At that time, I had no idea what had happened to the nuclear submarine, which was on combat duty. As it turned out later, the cause of the fuss was not the surfacing of the boat near the coast of the United States, but what was wound on the submarine’s propeller...

The nuclear submarine “K-324” pr.671-RTM, called “Victor-III” in NATO, was built in Komsomolsk-on-Amur and was the seventh in the series, was part of the Northern Fleet and carried out combat service tasks off the coast of the United States. At the time being described, the American Navy was testing the latest hydro-acoustic system (HAS) “TacTAS”, and it was the American frigate “McCloy”, equipped with this device, that the nuclear submarine entered. Information about the operating parameters of this state-of-the-art equipment was invaluable to Soviet science and the fleet. And K-324 succeeded for a long time to accompany a frigate engaged in testing the GAS, but also to find out some of the performance characteristics of the towed cable antenna. Moreover, during the tracking, we were lucky enough to identify some features of the interaction of the American frigate’s hydroacoustics with its submarines and other components of the American long-range hydroacoustic detection system.
This was luck and a rare success for the boat in combat service! Work with the frigate "McCloy" could have been continued, but it suddenly stopped testing and quickly left, and therefore the nuclear-powered ship received a command to change its sailing area. But at this moment an emergency happened.

At first glance, it seemed to everyone on board that the submarine’s main turbine had failed. As the speed increased, a strong vibration began in the stern; it became impossible to stand without holding the handrails. The main turbine was stopped, the ship was moving at depth due to the propulsion electric motors - in the turbine compartment the crew began to determine the causes of the incident. However, the reason lay elsewhere; it became clear only after the ascent.
At night, after inspecting the boat on the surface, it turned out that the reason for the loss of speed was not in the turbine, but in the fact that a “cable from a fishing net” was wound around the tail of the submarine - “something wound on the tail of the boat with a tight skein was holding the actions of the ship, forced the ship’s propulsion engines to work under unusual loads, and deprived the boat of maneuverability.” It was impossible to eliminate the interference in the dark. During the day, in the sunlight, they saw that it was not the cable from the nets that was hindering the movement of the submarine. On the tail of the submarine was wound a piece of an armored cable antenna of an American towed sonar - the same top-secret newest sonar.

After reporting the incident to fleet headquarters, the command ordered the antenna to be preserved at all costs and delivered to the base. It was not easy to do this - the boat was unable to move, and diving was also associated with danger. In addition, after surfacing, the nuclear submarine was discovered by US Navy patrol aircraft, and surface ships were not long in coming. The destroyers Peterson and Nicolson (Spruance class) arrived at the site of the submarine's ascent with the opposite task - by any means necessary to prevent the Russians from obtaining the secret antenna.
It later turned out that a 400-meter piece of cable antenna was hanging behind the stern of the boat. In addition, even antenna receivers were preserved on it, although some were partially destroyed, but one was completely preserved. It was a find!
The rescue ship Aldan was urgently sent to help K-324, but before its arrival the crew had to preserve at any cost, and if they could not save, then destroy the most valuable find.

For almost 10 days, high-speed US destroyers pursued the Soviet boat, which could move extremely slowly with the help of electric rowing motors. American destroyers repeatedly crossed the submarine's course and passed in close proximity. Towards the end of the protracted pursuit, the actions of the destroyers became especially dangerous and a decision was made to prepare the nuclear submarine for an explosion. K-324 was already ready to fall into the abyss at 5000 m and take all the secrets with it, but then Aldan came to the rescue and began towing the nuclear submarine to Cuba. The situation has calmed down, but American destroyers continued escorting all the way to Cuba.
After arriving in Cuba, the boat's damage was repaired and it returned to its home base. The valuable “catch” was immediately transferred for research.

The Russian multipurpose nuclear submarine Project 971 Shchuka-B (according to NATO reporting name – Akula), armed with cruise missiles, patrolled the waters off the US coast in the Gulf of Mexico for several weeks, remaining undetected. This information was disseminated by an American online publication in mid-August with reference to unnamed American officials. Underscoring the weakness of the US anti-submarine system, it is also reported that the submarine's presence near US territorial waters was only noticed after the boat had already left the area, causing serious concern among US officials. The correspondent of “Our Version” decided to recall the history of the confrontation between submarines.

So far, information about the presence of a Russian submarine near American shores has not been officially confirmed by either party, and it is possible that due to special secrecy, the information will not be available for a long time. But, according to experts, the success of Russian submariners is beneficial to both sides. Russia clearly demonstrates the unfading military power, and also questions the deployment of a missile defense system in Europe. For the US military, this incident is beneficial because it could influence plans to reduce America's defense spending by $487 billion over the next 10 years. The inability of the US Navy to track the Russian submarine indicates shortcomings in the work of American anti-submarine systems, the funding of which has just been cut.

It should be noted that this is not the first time that Russian warships have scared the American military. In 2009, two Pike were spotted off the US coast. And as the head of the analytical department of the Institute of Political and Military Analysis, Alexander Khramchikhin, told Our Version, being in neutral waters near the territory of other states is a common element of submariner combat training. No provocations are planned on long trips. The fact that the boat was discovered is very bad; in fact, it was a failure of the mission. American boats are found near Russian shores, and the fact that Lately The Russian Navy was unable to disclose a single one, eloquently indicating that the Americans act more professionally.

It should be noted that submarines were considered one of the most effective weapons in the Cold War. By spying on each other, submarine fleets created incredible psychological pressure, not allowing the enemy to feel safe even at their own berths. The scale of underwater warfare is impressive: over 30 years, there have been about 25 collisions between American and Soviet (then Russian) submarines only underwater, and this in the vast oceans of the World.

As a rule, incidents occurred during large exercises where submarines carried out combat launches. In addition, submarines conducted active reconnaissance activities on the approaches to enemy naval bases. The submarines solved many operational tasks: they monitored the movements of enemy submarines in the World Ocean and were sent to collect information along the entire perimeter maritime border enemy.

Often, submarines boldly entered foreign territorial waters and even closed bays and water areas of naval bases in order to intercept information from coastal radars and telecommunications. In addition, they secretly collected fragments of military equipment and connected to communication lines. Moreover, the details of many operations carried out even several decades ago continue to be kept classified as “secret” even today.

But one of the episodes of confrontation involving a submarine, which literally brought the world to the brink of war, received wide publicity. In October 1962, during the Cuban Missile Crisis, four Soviet B-59 Project 641 diesel-electric submarines (NATO classification Foxtrot), loaded with nuclear-tipped torpedoes, patrolled off the coast of Cuba. On October 27, a group of 11 US Navy destroyers, led by the aircraft carrier USS Randolph, surrounded one of the boats. The submarine was fired upon by an American plane; according to the Soviet side, depth charges were also used against the submarine. The captain of the Soviet submarine panicked, decided that the war had already begun, and gave the command to prepare to launch a retaliatory atomic torpedo at American ships. The chief of staff of the 69th submarine brigade of the Northern Fleet, Vasily Arkhipov, who was the senior on board, convinced the commander not to do this, but to surface and wait for instructions from Moscow.

There were several tragicomic cases in the history of the Soviet Navy, one of which occurred with the Soviet medium torpedo diesel-electric submarine of Project 613 (according to NATO classification - Whiskey-I) on the night of October 27-28, 1981.

The submariners, making a routine training voyage in the Baltic Sea, lost their course and found themselves deep inside Swedish territory. Meanwhile, the “Swedish Komsomolets” - as the boat was later ironically nicknamed in the Baltic Fleet - did not plan to enter Swedish territorial waters. But a whole chain of circumstances happened that led to a major international scandal. First, due to damage to the fishing nets, the antenna of the Deka navigation system began to produce incorrect information. The boat's navigator failed to notice in time that the submarine had been moving on the wrong course for several days. As a result, the boat, which should have been hundreds of miles from the Scandinavian coast, landed on the rocks of the coastal sandbank of Bsela at the southeastern tip of Sweden, near the island of Turumsher, 2 kilometers from the secret NATO military base in Sweden. The peculiarity of the situation is that in order to reach the scene of the incident, the ship had to pass through several narrow artificial straits that were difficult to navigate. Moreover, by a strange coincidence, the time of the incident coincided with the testing of a new model of torpedoes at this base.

Another no less incidental incident occurred on February 29, 1996. During a NATO exercise, the K-448 Tambov submarine suddenly surfaced near a detachment of alliance ships. It turned out that one of her crew members needed urgent medical attention due to peritonitis that developed after surgery to remove the appendix. It is noteworthy that a Russian submarine monitored the exercises and even allegedly sank several ships. Despite this, the enemy entered into a situation - the sick submariner was taken to the British destroyer Glasgow, and from there he was sent by helicopter to the hospital.

By the way, the CIA’s most complex and successful operation is still considered the top-secret Ivy Bells project, which involved collecting information from Soviet underwater cable communication lines. This operation was carried out with the active use of submarines. It started in 1970. Then the CIA showed increased interest in information about the results of the launches of our intercontinental ballistic missiles, which hit targets at the Kamchatka training ground. The Khalibat submarine secretly entered Soviet territorial waters and hovered over the underwater cable that connected the city of Petropavlovsk-Kamchatsky, located near the island of Karpinsky, the Kura missile range and the Krashenikovo submarine base with the mainland. Four deep-sea divers installed special equipment, and the submarine filmed top secret information for several days.

Further, the process of collecting information was improved. A stationary device, created on instructions from the CIA, was installed on the cable. This device, which received the characteristic name “Cocoon,” was capable of removing information from a cable without opening its outer casing.

This spy equipment embodied the latest achievements in radio-electronic technology of that time. By appearance it was a cylindrical container, in the tail part of which there was a nuclear power source that supplied electricity to the onboard radio-electronic systems. Electronic spy worked long time autonomously and transmitted the accumulated information to the submarine entering the area.

Thus, the Americans stole classified information for a decade. It is still not known for certain how the wiretapping was discovered. According to one version, the device was discovered by repairmen who were looking for a broken cable accidentally touched by a fishing anchor, according to another - Soviet intelligence officers received information from their agent working on this project at the CIA.

According to experts, nuclear submarines did not stop entering combat service even after the collapse Soviet Union, although significantly reduced.

Recently, information appeared in the American media that a certain Russian nuclear submarine, armed with long-range cruise missiles, patrolled the Gulf of Mexico, strategic waters of the United States, for about a month, and was identified only after it left the region. There was a debate in the press about whether the boat was there, or whether it was a pre-election move by the Republicans, or perhaps an “active event” by the Russian special services, designed to solve Russia’s foreign policy problems.

"Kaluga" will revive the Russian fleet

The information was distributed by the portal Washington Free Beacon citing a Pentagon official. Russian media agreed that we're talking about, most likely, about project 971 “Pike B” (according to NATO classification - “Shark”). The Russian Ministry of Defense commented on the message in such a way that it only fueled the intrigue. “Currently, submarines of the Russian Navy carry out combat service on schedule in various areas of the World Ocean. In accordance with global practice, the actions of the submarine forces of the Navy, the routes of their voyages, and especially their combat service, are not covered in official reports and are classified information even after decades,” the military department told ITAR-TASS. The Pentagon responded more clearly. “I don’t know where this information comes from, but it is not true,” said Pentagon spokeswoman Wendy Schneider.

Washington Free Beacon Along the way, I remembered that in June and July Russian strategic bombers had invaded restricted US airspace near Alaska and California, and concluded that “the Russians are coming.” The story continued after Republican Senator John Cornyn sent a request to the Pentagon to the commander of the Navy, Admiral Jonathan Greenert, in order to confirm or deny the information, writes Houston Chronicle.

"Submarines off our coasts, together with encroachments on our airspace, reflect a very aggressive and destabilizing military policy Russia, posing a threat national security USA. This is particularly troubling as President Barack Obama is pushing for deep cuts to the defense budget, including funding for anti-submarine warfare," the letter said.

There was a debate in the press about whether the boat was there, or whether it was a pre-election move by the Republicans, or perhaps an “active event” of the Russian special services, designed to solve foreign policy problems. The Russians really want to have a boat. “The appearance of a submarine with nuclear missiles on board in the Caribbean region is a demonstration by Vladimir Putin that Russia is still a player in the military-political arena of the world,” one expert told the Kommersant FM newspaper. The Russian nuclear fleet, in his opinion, is “the only thing left for Putin to proudly hold the flag.”

Americans, on the contrary, really do not want to believe in the veracity of information. None of the major American newspapers promoted the news. Let's see what the portal is Washington Free Beacon. It bills itself as a "non-profit news site" founded by the Washington-based Center for American Freedom, a "conservative advocacy group" chaired by one Mikhail Goldfarb, a committed Republican. Its partner is the PR agency Orion Strategies. Goldfarb recently appeared in lobbying for the sale of American F-16s to Taiwan and Georgian interests, organizing an interview with Georgian Ambassador to Washington Temuri Yakobashvili.

It is interesting that his interests in Congress are represented not by anyone but the already mentioned Republican Senator Cornyn, the newspaper writes TheNation.