Formidable opponents in the battle for the Arctic between Russia and the US
Russian Navy nuclear submarines operating under the Arctic ice face a "formidable opponent," the US Navy's three Seawolf-class submarines.
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| US Navy submarine Seawolf. |
“All three submarines Seawolf, Connecticut and Jimmy Carter are specially designed to operate under ice and search for missile submarines” - according to the US magazine Popular Mechanics.
The publication called it “a show of force with a big message: Russian submarines can launch missiles from areas that US forces cannot reach.”
In March, exercises involving the Russian Navy took place. At the same time, satellite images of the area where the submarines surfaced showed a “giant hole” that had formed – presumably after a torpedo launch from one of the nuclear submarines.
In January 2020, a source in the Russian Defense Ministry said,Nuclear submarines that act as strategic weapons carriers are using unguided rockets (LRS). According to the newspaper, they will create ice holes for ballistic missiles to pass through.
