What are the shortcomings of Russian submarines?
“In a combat situation, a US Navy submarine is capable of sinking all three nuclear-powered ships of the Russian Navy,” a Russian military expert assessed.
The simultaneous presence in the same area of the Umka-21 voyage with three nuclear submarines of the Russian Navy creates an opportunity for the US Navy to get “a great trophy”, military expert Maxim Klimov admitted in the newspaper “Defense Industry Messenger”.
What are the shortcomings of Russian submarines?
The expert wrote that there was at least one US submarine operating not far from the Russian submarines.
“In a combat situation, one US Navy submarine is capable of sinking all three nuclear-powered ships of the Russian Navy,” military expert Makxim Klimov wrote.
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The reason for this, experts say, is that Russian submarines, including the nuclear submarine K-549 "Knyaz Vladimir" of project 955A (09552) "Borey-A", so far "do not have effective anti-torpedo means".
“We have no technical problems with underwater weapons and means to counter them, but we have extremely serious organizational problems,” the author concludes.
However, in March, satellite images from Maxar Technologies appeared online showing a Russian nuclear submarine surfacing next to a “giant ice hole.” According to the article, during the “Umka-2” operation in the Arctic in late March, 1in 3 Russian submarinesmay have launched a torpedo to create an ice hole to surface.