In recent years, the characteristics of submarines of the Russian Navy have improved, and their crews significantly improved their skills. Long and long campaigns of Russian submarines in the North Atlantic make NATO doubt its military superiority in this region.
About this writes the American edition of the Wall Street Journal.
Over the past few years, Russia has invested heavily in modernizing its submarine fleet, remaining in her inheritance from the Soviet Union. Now the Russian Federation has more silent and faster submarines, able to go unnoticed at great depths and suddenly appear in the most unexpected places.
This is alarming for NATO leaders., since Russian submarines are capable of disrupting US plans for a quick transfer of troops across the Atlantic to Europe, if the need arises. Especially, that in the near future it is planned to withdraw about a quarter of the American military contingent from Germany.
Particularly concerned about Americans patrolling the Russian submarine fleet of the US East Coast.
And although NATO in response increases the grouping of anti-submarine aircraft R-8A Poseidon in the UK, Norway and Iceland, it does not save the situation. Indeed, in recent years, thanks to its improved characteristics, Russian submarines are able to replay Poseidons, hiding from them at the bottom of the Atlantic.
