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Caucasus/Russia/Central Asia

Russia's secret super submarine fleet could be unstoppable in World War III scenario

2016-07-31

Prolly devastating in the submarine races context as well.
"The deadly group of stealthy underwater weapons are currently patrolling the world and have already reportedly breached UK waters having approached the Royal Navy's base in Faslane, Scotland.

Russia is stepping up its secret submarine programme to "Cold War" levels and experts warn NATO members "no longer" have the defences to stop the aquatic death machines.

Andrew Metrick, who co-wrote the report for the Center for Strategic and International Studies (CSIS), said: "Russia operates a small number of very small, nuclear powered submarines that are capable of diving in excess of several thousand meters.

"You can imagine what a clandestine deployable deep submergence vehicle could be used for."

Posted by:Blossom Unains5562

#5 A constellation of nuclear powered ROVs feeding bottom data to a central surface tender would make short work of mapping the Arctic Russian Shelf.

Posted by: Skidmark 2016-07-31 16:52

#4 a clandestine deployable deep submergence vehicle is pretty much the textbook definition of a submarine.

So the Russians are working on their navy while we finish our doctorate on "The Role of Transgendered Personnel in Undersea Warfare". tl;dr: they have money. we're stupid.

Informal traffic analysis shows a steady stream of news and commentary like this about war with Russia. Seems a tad suspicious given the current problems with Islam - not that the media would ever coordinate attacks on the target du jour at the behest of their political masters.

Posted by: SteveS 2016-07-31 15:14

#3 "You can imagine what a clandestine deployable deep submergence vehicle could be used for."

Ask the US SubForce! We've been doing it for decades.

diving in excess of several thousand meters.
Yeah, one time. It's called going below crush depth or not maintaining submergence to surface ratio of 1. Whatta maroon!

Posted by: AlmostAnonymous5839 2016-07-31 10:14

#2 Budget time for the services?

Posted by: Procopius2k 2016-07-31 09:31

#1 "You can imagine what a clandestine deployable deep submergence vehicle could be used for."

Touching the bottom of the pool? I got nuthin'.

Posted by: BrerRabbit 2016-07-31 05:42

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