NATO ships hunt Russian submarine in the North Sea

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NATO chases Russian submarine in the North Atlantic

At the weekend, NATO identified a Russian submarine in the North Sea-probably very close to the world’s largest warship. Then a febrile search starts.

As the British newspaper “The Sun” first reported, both Norway and Great Britain and the USA have been chasing at least one Russian submarine for about two days since Sunday. Apparently the NATO countries in the submarine saw a threat to the “USS Gerald Ford”, the largest warship in the world.

P8-Poseidon reconnaissance aircraft from the three countries lifted 27 times to search the Norwegian lake. At least some of the machines had switched off their transponder. The aircraft are also considered a submarine hunter. In addition to all sorts of highly sensitive sensors, you also have Sonar buoys on board. You can throw these off, whereupon the devices drop and record noises under water that can indicate the presence of a submarine. In an emergency, a P8 Poseidon could even throw torpedoes to fight the submarine.

According to “The Sun”, the British frigate “HMS Somerset” also went into Norwegian waters. The warship specializes in the hunt of submarines.

The online newspaper “The Barents ObServer” based in Norway reported, citing satellite images, that all three Russian submarines of the Jasen M class were at sea on Monday. The nuclear-powered submarines “Sewerodwinsk”, “Kazan” and “Archangelsk” belong to the Russian north fleet. They have their base in Nerpitscha on the Barentssee, only around 60 kilometers from the Norwegian-Russian border.

Tom Sharpe, former Royal Navy officer, told the British “Telegraph” the threat that can end up with a Russian submarine for the US aircraft carrier. “If the submarine could have reached the ‘USS Ford’, it could have collected a huge amount of information about the acoustic signature, electronic emissions and so on the ‘Ford’,” said Sharpe. “Basically, it is like getting the acoustic fingerprint of the ‘Ford’ into your hands, which would make it easier for the submarine to pursue the ‘Ford’ for targeted purposes if this should ever be necessary in times of war.”