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By Franz-Stefan Gady
NATO says Russian submarine activity has returned to Cold War levels. What about the Pacific?
NATO’s top naval officer said that Russia has been deploying its submarine force at levels unseen since the end of the Cold War in the Atlantic Ocean and that Moscow’s undersea fleet has made a major jump in its technological capabilities, IHS Jane’s Defense Weekly reports.
According to Vice Admiral Clive Johnstone, Commander of NATO’s Maritime Command, Western sub commanders are reporting “more activity from Russian submarines than we’ve seen since the days of the Cold War”. This is “”very different from the period of quiet submarine activity that perhaps we’ve seen in the past,” he adds.
Simultaneously, the technical capabilities displayed by Russian submarines have increased. It is “a level of Russian capability that we haven’t seen before,” the admiral says. The Russian Navy accomplished this “through an extraordinary investment path not mirrored by the West” and has made “technology leaps that [are] remarkable, and credit to them.”
Read the full story at The Diplomat