![]() Shugart pointed out that a number of Russian news articles have linked a series of Russian submarine operations in 2019 to Operation Atrina. east coast undetected, operating there from March to May 1987. He pointed to Operation Atrina, which reportedly saw five Victor III nuclear-powered attack submarines reach the U.S. Tom Shugart, an adjunct senior fellow with the defense program at the Center for a New American Security, a Washington-based think tank, told Newsweek there is a "clear linkage" between Russians talking about their Cold War operations and comparing them to what they say they're doing now, or recently. "That appears to be similar to the deployments we're seeing today." Operation Atrina "So there's a relationship between the location of those patrol areas in the Cold War and submarine-launched ballistic missile technology," Petersen added. coastline anymore-they could fall back into these bastions that were either further out into the mid-Atlantic or even back up into the Barents Sea, depending on the range of the missiles. "The submarines didn't necessarily need to deploy right up close to the U.S. as ballistic missile technology got better and range improved, Petersen went on. "In the '70s and early '80s, in general, we would commonly see submarines again deploying off the east and west coast, but in larger areas-those very small patrol boxes expanded out to include most of the eastern seaboard and western seaboard and out into the mid-Atlantic."īy the mid to late '80s, those patrol areas began to recede off the east coast of the U.S. "And as time progressed, through the 1970s and 1980s, as new submarines came online, new submarine-launched ballistic missile technology was developed that increased the range of these weapons, those patrol boxes shifted. The Soviet Union then pushed its ballistic missile, and submarine patrols out to the east and west coast of the United States, he said. They did not have that long intercontinental range," he said. "That was because of the ballistic missile technology that existed at the time, submarine-launched ballistic missiles did not have the range in the 1960s and early 1970s that they do now. Petersen noted that in the mid-60s to the mid-70s, there were submarine patrol areas that were relatively close to the east and west coasts of the U.S. By and large, that's what I mean by the sort of mirroring of tactics." "Those patrol locations shifted over time as undersea warfare technology improved, and as submarine technology improved. saw in the late stages of the Cold War in the 1970s to early 1980s, Petersen said.ĭuring a period of the Cold War, starting in the 1960s, and through the mid to late 1980s, the Soviet Union was regularly sending nuclear-powered ballistic missile submarines to patrol off the east and west coast of the United States, he explained. Mirroring TacticsĬruise missile threats are being presented off the east coast of the United States in patrol areas that are similar to what the U.S. Northern Command and NORAD, who previously characterized Russia as the primary threat to the country due to the presence of its nuclear-powered Severodvinsk-class submarines near the U.S. Air Force General Glen VanHerck, the head of U.S. Russia is the "critical challenge" that the United States faces today, he said, responding to remarks made by U.S. They "mirror Soviet-style submarine deployments in the Cold War," said Petersen, who is also a professor at the staff college in Rhode Island. Naval War College, which conducts research on Russian military and economic issues linked to the world's oceans, told Newsweek that there are indications that "nuclear-powered submarines have been deploying off the coast of the United States and into the Mediterranean and elsewhere along European periphery." Michael Petersen, director of the Russia Maritime Studies Institute at the U.S. The Russian leader said in December his country would be building more nuclear-powered submarines that "will ensure Russia's security for decades to come." Meanwhile, a Kremlin document signed by Putin in 2017, which lays out the Russian navy's improved capabilities, its evolving strategic and operational role, and its future ambitions, states the nation "must possess powerful balanced fleets in all strategic areas" by 2030.Īmid the arms reforms, there have been deployments of Russian submarines that mirror Soviet-style submarine deployments in the Cold War, Newsweek has been told. United States commanders and military observers are sounding the alarm about the activity of Russia's submarine fleet off the U.S. Russian nuclear submarine Yuri Dolgorukiy (NATO reporting name: SSBN "Borei", or "Dolgorukiy") is seen during the Navy Day Military parade July, 27, 2014, in Severomorsk. ![]()
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