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PROJECT 955 BOREY SSBN SURFACES IN LONG ISLAND STRAIT
Today's appearance of a Russian nuclear submarine a kilometer from Manhattan and the Statue of Liberty caused not only panic in the Pentagon, but breaking news releases and mortal horror that gripped all Americans without exception. Polls public opinion taken an hour after the Borei's ascent showed that frightened Americans, having felt an unpleasant chill from someone else's military presence in their home and had time to examine the "Russian death machine" in every detail off their shores, demanded an immediate cessation of the campaign in Afghanistan, as well as the winding down of the military preparations regarding Syria and Iran.
As it turned out, the US Navy simply missed the moment when the Borei submarine, also known as Project 955, surfaced within direct sight of the American coast. The vaunted US tracking systems did not record the movements of our submarine.
According to a representative of the Russian Ministry of Defense, the surfacing of our submarine in close proximity from New York and her entry into US territorial waters was “an absolutely ridiculous accident. The submarine’s navigational instruments failed and, in order to get its bearings, the commander of the submarine was forced to unmask himself and give the command to surface.” General base was extremely surprised when the commander attached photographs of the Statue of Liberty and strolling tourists on Manhattan Island to the radiogram reporting his location.
“We ask the Americans not to consider this a response to the regular appearance of US Navy submarines in the immediate vicinity of the borders of the territorial sea of the Russian Federation. It’s worth adding that we always record the appearance of American submarines, as well as their movements. But Americans, as it turned out, cannot always do this. And only a case helped us identify this,” the TV reporter’s interlocutor emphasized the word “case” with intonation.
Defense Department experts believe that the Americans simply do not have the ability to reliably track the movements of this class of submarines: “Although it was believed that the Americans had problems exclusively with tracking our titanium-hulled submarines (Project 945 Barracuda), it turns out that submarines with with a steel body they can easily miss,” a representative of the Russian Defense Ministry told an NTV correspondent. “We will continue to carry out combat duty off the coast of the United States, and we will not violate any international agreements.” And the incident that occurred is clean water an accident and should not be regarded as a provocation.”
The Americans' fears are understandable, and there are two reasons for this. Firstly, the surfacing of our submarine revealed gaps in the Pentagon's underwater tracking systems, which will not be so easy to eliminate. Secondly, Borei class submarines and their latest modifications can be equipped not only with Granat cruise missiles (the Americans call them SS-N-21 Sampson). Although they can easily fly not only to the shore, but also much further, to almost any large city USA. There is something to worry about. The most offensive thing for the Americans is that international maritime law is not violated by Russia in such cases and they are not able to prohibit us from conducting combat patrols. Our only hope is that we have few submarines of this class and, unfortunately, we will not be able to constantly get on the Pentagon’s nerves.
Independent international experts assure that the Americans will certainly draw conclusions that are beneficial to us: “US nuclear submarines conduct more patrols than the Russian, French, British and Chinese nuclear submarine fleets combined; they are frequent guests near your territorial waters. They really get on the nerves of Russians. Perhaps now they will act with an eye to the fact that your submariners can do a lot. Albeit “accidentally.” But here’s what’s characteristic: the pseudo-liberal Russian TV channels seem to have taken their fill of water and are unanimously silent about this obvious military success of the Russian Armed Forces. The only TV channel that was mentioned in detail in the news release was NTV, to which representatives of the Ministry of Defense gave interviews. The rest are bashfully silent. But what joy reigned upon them when the national team left Euro 2012! You begin to believe that indeed among our colleagues there are people who sincerely believe that “the worse for Russia, the better.”
Recently, information appeared in the American media that a certain Russian nuclear submarine, armed with long-range cruise missiles, patrolled the Gulf of Mexico, strategic waters of the United States, for about a month, and was identified only after it left the region. There was a debate in the press about whether there was a boat, or whether it was a pre-election move by the Republicans, or maybe an “active event” Russian intelligence services, designed to solve Russia's foreign policy problems.
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The information was distributed by the portal Washington Free Beacon citing a Pentagon official. Russian media agreed that we're talking about, most likely, about project 971 “Pike B” (according to NATO classification - “Shark”). The Russian Ministry of Defense commented on the message in such a way that it only fueled the intrigue. “Currently, submarines of the Russian Navy carry out combat service on schedule in various areas of the World Ocean. In accordance with global practice of the operation of submarine forces Navy, the routes of their campaigns, and even more so, their military service, are not covered in official communications and are classified information even after decades,” the military department told ITAR-TASS. The Pentagon responded more clearly. “I don’t know where this information comes from, but it is not true,” said Pentagon spokeswoman Wendy Schneider.
Washington Free Beacon along the way, I remembered that in June and July Russian strategic bombers invaded limited air space USA near Alaska and California, and concluded that “the Russians are coming.” The story continued after Republican Senator John Cornyn sent a request to the Pentagon to the commander of the Navy, Admiral Jonathan Greenert, in order to confirm or deny the information, writes Houston Chronicle.
"Submarines off our coasts, together with encroachments on our airspace, reflect a very aggressive and destabilizing military policy Russia, posing a threat national security USA. This is particularly concerning as President Barack Obama seeks deep cuts defense budget, which provides, among other things, for reducing funding for anti-submarine defense development,” the letter says.
There was a debate in the press about whether the boat was there, or whether it was a pre-election move by the Republicans, or perhaps an “active event” of the Russian special services, designed to solve foreign policy problems. The Russians really want to have a boat. “The appearance of a submarine with nuclear missiles on board in the Caribbean region is a demonstration by Vladimir Putin that Russia is still a player in the military-political arena of the world,” one expert told the Kommersant FM newspaper. Russian nuclear fleet, in his opinion, is “the only thing Putin has left to proudly hold the flag.”
Americans, on the contrary, really do not want to believe in the veracity of information. None of the major American newspapers promoted the news. Let's see what the portal is Washington Free Beacon. It bills itself as a "non-profit news site" founded by the Washington-based Center for American Freedom, a "conservative advocacy group" chaired by one Mikhail Goldfarb, a committed Republican. Its partner is the PR agency Orion Strategies. Goldfarb recently appeared in lobbying for the sale of American F-16s to Taiwan and Georgian interests, organizing an interview with Georgian Ambassador to Washington Temuri Yakobashvili.
It is interesting that his interests in Congress are represented not by anyone but the already mentioned Republican Senator Cornyn, the newspaper writes TheNation.
Last week passed under the sign of “Pike”. And this is not a new astrological symbol at all, but a Russian Project 971 submarine, which NATO dubbed the “Shark”.
Initially, a number of media outlets reported that the Russian submarine Shchuka-B showed the inconsistency of American radars by spending, no less, almost a month in the waters of the Gulf of Mexico in close proximity to the shores of the United States of America. Added fuel to the fire American newspaper The Washington Free Beacon, publishing an article under the headline “Silent Move,” in which it told its readers that the US Navy “missed” the presence of a Russian nuclear submarine with long-range cruise missiles on board in close proximity to its shores. The American publication reports that radars noticed the submarine only at the moment when it had already turned on the speed and began to leave the area in which it was observing.
For some time, neither Russian nor American officials this information didn’t comment, and then suddenly they literally poured out of a cornucopia official versions happened off the American coast. After some thought and searching possible options The representative of the American military department, Wendy Schneider, responded to the “presumptuous Russians.” For natural reasons, Mrs. Schneider did everything to demonstrate to the world community that it was not the Russian “Pike” that was off the coast of the United States, but a newspaper “duck”, which many took at face value... The Pentagon representative said that she did not understand at all on what is the information that reached her and her boss based, and in general such information simply cannot correspond to reality.
Well, really, what else could the Pentagon say about this? Did anyone really think that an official representative of the defense department of the most “protected” country in the world would come out and say that yes, they say, Russian submarines are actively patrolling our American shores and sometimes point their periscopes to see both in the windows of the White House or personal account Leon Panetta is on fire unquenchable light... Yes, if the Pentagon had allowed itself to act with such equanimity, confirming the presence of Russian nuclear submarines in the immediate vicinity of the hospitable shores of the United States, then such a rustle would have arisen in the American Congress that Leon Panetta would have packed his bags tomorrow and ordered a taxi so as not to go from place of his former job» (Pentagon buildings) on foot...
That is why Ms. Schneider expressed extreme surprise that some kind of Russian submarine, the design of which began in the mid-70s of the last century, could easily overcome the anti-submarine defense system and do its job off the coast of America whole month.
After Ms. Schneider’s speeches, Russian officials also had to get down to business. A representative of the Russian Ministry of Defense said that reports coming from the American media regarding the discovery of a Russian submarine in Gulf of Mexico, absolutely cannot be called a sensation. Russian combat units submarine fleet Since the resumption of long-distance campaigns, they have been constantly on duty in various points world ocean. For obvious reasons, the Ministry of Defense is not going to announce the routes of such trips, and therefore there is nothing scandalous or reprehensible in the news about the appearance of Russian submarines off the coast of certain countries.
From these words it is clear that the official Russian side indirectly confirms that “Pike-B” could well have been on duty off the American coast, and even if American radars detected it only on final stage duty, then this, as they say, is their problem.
By the way, there really can’t be any sensation in the fact that Russian submarines end up off the coast of the United States. As recently as 2009, the same Americans initially tried with enviable tenacity to prove that there were no nuclear submarines off the coast of the United States, although after a short time the Pentagon not only admitted the fact that submarines were located at a distance of about 320 km from the eastern coast of the United States, but also expressed concern about this fact. They say that Russian submarines, which have not appeared on our shores for 15 years, are now causing us concern. Immediately, words were heard about the “echo of the cold” war that the Russians continue in relation to the “most democratic” country in the world. You might think that American military submarines never go beyond their bases...
Today, too, the situation with the Russian “Pike-B” is more reminiscent of a performance in which the American side with enviable persistence shouts “I don’t believe it,” although it’s just once again speaks of the Pentagon as an organization trying to assure itself, US citizens, and, most importantly, congressmen that “everything is calm in Baghdad (that is, in Washington).”
But we can say that the Pentagon is really for Lately I've pretty much lost my sense of smell. After the activity of the Soviet submarine fleet died down, American anti-submarine systems off the coast of the United States began to gradually fall asleep. And now, even if a danger sign in the form of a Russian submarine appears on radar, many people perceive this as nothing other than another colorful dream: they say, the Russians cannot approach our shores like this close quarters- Go back to sleep, Johnny...
But at least one more point is connected with the appearance of a Russian submarine in the Gulf of Mexico. The fact is that it would be, oddly enough, even beneficial for the Pentagon itself if a couple more Russian Pike quietly approached American shores. The benefit may be as follows: Obama announced a reduction in the military budget, and this reduction is gradually beginning to become a reality. And this, first of all, could hit directly the department of Leon Panetta, who hardly wants to lose a significant share of complementary foods from the US budget. Therefore, the Russian nuclear submarine has already literally brought Mr. Panetta to a standstill. On the one hand, he needs to justify himself, as they say, before the party and the people, declaring that “there were no Russians,” and on the other hand, he needs to loudly declare that there were Russians in order to extract a couple of tens of billions of dollars from the tight-fisted Obama as additional funding anti-submarine defense, which is literally chewed through by various “Pikes” and other underwater creatures from Russia.
In general, for Russia, whether Obama gives money to Panetta or not, whether the Pentagon recognizes the fact that a Russian submarine is in close proximity to its shores or does not recognize it, is not particularly important: in any case, it is necessary to continue to systematically carry out its work, giving the opportunity for the country's submarine fleet to gain momentum. After all, as you know, we have only two allies who never let us down...
American media reported that the Russian multi-purpose nuclear submarine for a long time cruised along the coast of the United States.
Military observer Sergei Mikhailov comments:
Our nuclear submarine was allegedly discovered in the Gulf of Mexico - and this is almost the inland sea of the United States, and was detected only when it left the patrol area. True, the American press reassured the worried compatriots with the fact that “a Russian attack submarine patrolled the waters in close proximity to the US coast for only the second time since 2009.” A tranquilizer, of course, is not the most effective. Maybe American Coast security and the anti-submarine forces of the Navy simply did not detect other submarines?
Many Russian readers, having learned about this message, expressed the opinion that there was no Russian nuclear submarine off the coast of the United States, all this is a “duck” born of those who are trying to prove that our Navy and its submarine fleet are still capable of something. No, let's still believe that our submarine fleet, which is, of course, not in better position, after all, it does go to the World Ocean occasionally, but only occasionally. The information about the “Akula” - as Project 971 submarines are called according to the NATO classification - is interesting. Why should our multi-purpose submarines patrol off the coast of the United States at all? It is believed that these boats were created to hunt strategic submarines and aircraft carrier orders in open ocean. And it makes no sense for them to come close to the shores of America, and besides, it is dangerous - there is a risk of being detected by anti-submarine defense systems. Nevertheless, Soviet strategic nuclear submarines were on combat duty off the coast of the United States, and were accompanied by multi-purpose submarines.
In addition, on the west coast of America, in the state of Washington on the border with Canada, there is a very interesting and important secret facility - a base for American strategic nuclear submarines. The Americans were able to carve out huge hangars in the rocks, where their nuclear submarines began to be based. The entrance to this rock shelter is underwater. Having entered a wide underwater tunnel, the boats pass through a system of locks and find themselves on the surface. After which you can carry out routine maintenance and change the crew.
Once upon a time, something similar was done in Sevastopol. But our facility was designed to receive and service small diesel submarines. They tried to build a rock base similar to the American one in the north, in the Gadzhievo region - where Soviet strategic nuclear-powered ships were based. The work was almost completed, but “perestroika” happened, and the grandiose plans had to be forgotten. Today, only a huge hole in the rock reminds of them.
For Soviet submariners It was very important to take control of the American base of strategic nuclear submarines. This would ensure blocking the exit of nuclear submarines on the eve of a possible " great war" About the existence of the Soviet object itself military intelligence I probably found out during its construction. So it was never secret for Moscow, although even today the Pentagon does not advertise its existence in any way. But it was almost impossible to secretly approach the underwater entrance to the base. It is tightly protected by the most sensitive sonars that would detect a noisy Soviet submarine hundreds of miles from the base. In addition, there was a danger of the presence of bottom booby traps.
This was the case until titanium multipurpose submarines of Project 945 “Barracuda” began to enter service with the USSR Navy. Like all submarines of this class, they were supposed to hunt aircraft carriers and Ohio-class strategic nuclear submarines. But among the designers who designed titanium boats, there was an opinion: the terms of reference for the project were formulated in such a way that its implementation made it possible to create a submarine that could approach the American base.
When the first Soviet Barracuda quietly approached within torpedo firing distance of the underwater entrance to the Ohio base, it still remains completely classified information of our General Staff. According to the stories of old submariners, who have no reason not to believe, “Barracudas” were on constant duty at the entrance to the base and patrolled along the entire west coast USA and Canada. They were given one task: if the world really came apart at the seams and a nuclear war became inevitable, to block the entrance to the base with a torpedo strike. It can be assumed that torpedoes with nuclear warheads were supposed to be used for this purpose.
Perhaps Washington somehow learned that Soviet titanium submarines were constantly located where, according to the Americans, they should not have been under any circumstances. They found out, but they could not detect the Barracudas - they remained invulnerable. However, still in Soviet time titanium projects of the world's best submarines were closed. And after the collapse of the USSR, the “Barracudas” no longer went to the shores of the United States - we became “friends” with the Americans.
The steel analogs of the “Barracuda” - project 971, the same “Shark” - were inherited by many best qualities titanium submarines. But first of all, they are really designed for hunting aircraft carrier formations. Special equipment allows the submarine to detect a trace and determine the direction of movement of an aircraft carrier order even several days after its passage. And the underwater speed of more than 30 knots is enough to catch up with the enemy.
It is unlikely that the Sharks can now unnoticed approach the base that the Barracudas once constantly kept in their sights. And their tasks, it’s worth repeating, are different. But they are capable of tracking down an Ohio-class nuclear submarine going on combat duty and “getting on its tail.” It is quite possible, working out learning objectives, Russian multi-purpose submarines now sometimes approach foreign shores, including American ones. And let them think overseas that since 2009 Russia has been able to send long hike only two multi-purpose submarines, which the vigilant Americans naturally spotted.
Or maybe over the past three years they have only managed to discover two boats. Maybe our submariners were deliberately making a noisy splash with their “shark fins” at the end. It's a shame. You walk and walk under the nose of a country that has the most powerful naval forces in the world, but there they don’t see or hear you point-blank...
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Not for the first time foreign funds mass media they write that the relationship between the United States and NATO with Russia is more reminiscent of the “second Cold War” than dialogue and exchange of views. The openly unfriendly policy of the United States towards Russia in last years many experts raise a reasonable question - how to ensure the security of the country and its integrity? Submarine officers of the Russian Navy and nuclear submarines. After all, the impenetrable American “defense” has already been hacked several times by them. Radio engineering ensemble Being the commander of a submarine combat unit is both an honor and a huge one. headache simultaneously. Being the commander of a combat unit of a submarine with missile weapons on board in the midst of a crisis that could turn into a nuclear strike at any moment is a doubly headache. Personnel The warhead-7 had (and still has) hard times in peacetime, but being the eyes and ears of a submarine in difficult times historical period- when two states, Soviet Union and the United States was teetering on the brink of an exchange nuclear strikes, specialists had to “hear” and “look out” for a potential enemy with triple vigilance. It is difficult to say when the first order came to the Navy headquarters to carry out tracking of ships and objects of a potential enemy, but the intensity and severity with which the games of “cat and mouse” took place "underwater and on its surface since the early 60s suggests high hopes for these events. However, in addition to campaigning with missiles to protect friendly Cuba during Cuban missile crisis, submarine commanders received orders to carry out other, to put it mildly, difficult tasks - to get through control zones, not to be detected, to report to right moment, if the situation so requires, make a “deliberate discovery.” By the way, it was the “deliberate discovery” that often became main task campaign - to pass through the blockade ring in Cuba and surface next to an unsuspecting US Navy ship - a cunning psychological trick from which you cannot recover so quickly. Another important task It was necessary to determine at what frequencies, with what parameters and intensity all foreign ship and any other electronics operate. Submarine officers recall that in terms of the coherence of the reconnaissance equipment during the Cuban Missile Crisis, the work of the crew resembled a real radio engineering ensemble - each sailor clearly carried out what he was taught. And although before real war with the use of torpedoes and repelling the attack, the matter never came to fruition; the result of combat campaigns of submarines during the Cuban missile crisis was perhaps the first database on the frequencies and operating ranges of American radars, hydroacoustic stations and much more. Many experts note that the timely extinguishment of the international the crisis helped to reduce tensions and reduce the intensity of combat patrols of Soviet submarines off the coast of the United States, but in reality everything happened exactly the opposite - almost immediately after the Cuban Missile Crisis, four submarines were transferred to the east coast of the United States, including the K-153 submarine of Project 629, in service which contained three R-13 ballistic missiles capable of wiping out an entire state. "Black Prince" and commotion in the White House Detection of a submarine near one's own borders was and remains the main condition for their destruction. There are many ways to detect an enemy submarine - active and passive sensors, electronic intelligence and much more. But none of them guarantees the detection of an object whose secrecy experts design bureaus worked for dozens of years. At the height of “ cold war"The American military took into account the huge number of submarines that were part of the USSR Navy and began to scatter along their own maritime boundaries an extensive network of sensors, modernized their own surface fleet and began to include ships equipped with advanced hydroacoustic stations and modern direction-finding systems. By the beginning of the 80s, everything was ready and it seemed that “the enemy will not get through.” But unexpectedly for the American Navy, an incident occurred, the reality of which even the US President could not immediately believe. In 1983 Atlantic coast United States, the crew of the frigate McCloy began testing the latest towed sonar detection system for submarines. The key component of this system was an ultra-sensitive submersible sonar, which the frigate's crew threw into the sea like a seine. The frigate McCloy was guarded from uninvited guests by the nuclear submarine Philadelphia, a modern nuclear submarine equipped with advanced detection equipment. Routine activities to determine operating parameters and test for failures would have ended quietly, if not for one important circumstance. In parallel with the American frigate, all data about the latest system submarine detections recorded soviet submarine K-324, which moved during the tests of the GAS under the belly of the frigate McCloy. Having finished test work and having received the order to return to base, the frigate McCloy abruptly changed course and began to gain momentum. A moment later, the hull of the Soviet submarine shook, and the reactor, along with the turbine, switched to emergency, or, as it is also called, “safe” mode. The ship’s commander decided not to test fate and gave the order to surface to assess the situation and the nature of the malfunction. After purging the ballast and reaching the surface, it became clear that the boat had wound a submersible hydroacoustic station around the propeller, simultaneously tearing off a hundred meters of durable cable. The fact of the loss of unique secret equipment “in their own backyard” was not immediately realized in the White House. Historians note that the report on the failure of tests caused by the appearance of the “Black Prince” (as the American military called the submarines of this project due to the contours of the hull) was first even raised to the then president The United States was in the mood for Reagan, but when the 40th President of the United States realized that the report about what had happened was not a joke, heads rolled at the Navy headquarters, and two American destroyers were transferred to the area of the immobilized submarine. “The plot was purer than Hollywood action films. The Americans really needed the piece of cable and sonar at the stern of the boat, but most likely the matter would not have been limited to the confiscation of their own top-secret equipment,” says fleet historian, reserve submarine officer Otar Dzhanibekov. The anti-submarine search epic lasted for ten days, during which everything happened - and American submarine, which arrived in the area and got caught on the same cable, and the rescue operation of K-324, which the commander prepared for an explosion in case the Americans boarded it, and the “dancing” of American Navy destroyers around the rescue ship Aldan. After towing to Cuba in Moscow they immediately demanded the caught trophy - what an incredible success was the opportunity, instead of the recorded characteristics, to receive the entire product, actually from the factory. No matter how strange it may sound, the device for detecting submarines donated by American sailors is not the main thing in the story of the K-324. The main thing remains the fact that Soviet submarine went unnoticed by tracking and detection equipment, deceived the acoustics and radio operators of the submarine guarding the McCloy, and snatched one of the main US naval secrets from under the nose a few meters from the ship of a potential enemy. If this happened in conditions real war- both the frigate McCloy and the nuclear submarine Philadelphia would be under the threat of imminent destruction, and the Black Prince would continue to carry out its combat mission. Through the networks Getting into a given area, bypassing the sensors and systems of the detection zone, and not getting caught by anti-submarine ships and aircraft is a very difficult task. Considering that the crew of the K-324 was well trained and consisted of experienced submariners, one should not forget that it will not be easy to pass through an area stuffed with highly sensitive sensors. “Such boats are low-noise in themselves. They were built according to a certain principle, with a certain layout. But we should not forget that the crew has special, let’s say, work algorithms - with their help, the areas in which detection means are located and are overcome,” notes a reserve submarine officer, author of popular stories, in an interview with Zvezda about submarines of the 941st project “Sharks of Steel” by Eduard Ovechkin. A lot of time has passed since the breakthrough of the American anti-submarine shield and the “hijacking” of the hydroacoustic station - at the headquarters of the Navy and the Pentagon they made certain conclusions, modernized their own anti-submarine weapons several times and as far as they could , tried to influence Russia in the early 90s in order to reveal real data on the program for the creation (and modernization) of a submarine fleet. Since the beginning of the 2000s, information about the duty of Russian submarines in neutral waters near the US coast is almost never found, but in 2009 and 2012 Two unpleasant incidents for the United States occur - information leaks to the media that Russian submarines are being discovered off the coast of the most protected country in the world. The second case is especially noteworthy in that the nuclear submarine of the 971st project only discovered at that moment, when the submarine left the Gulf of Mexico. It is difficult to determine and say reliably how long the nuclear submarine with cruise missiles on board actually spent under the very nose of the US Navy, but another hole was made in the anti-submarine barrier of the US Navy. And here it’s time to remember the so-called “deliberate” or “consensual” ascent - a kind of “Shock and Awe” performed by a nuclear-powered multi-purpose submarine, indicating a huge hole through which it would not be difficult for a Russian submarine to penetrate. In February 2016, in The NATO naval command noted, not without excitement, that the activity of Russian submarines had reached Cold War levels. In his statement NATO Naval Commander Clive Johnston noted that the technological level at which modern Russian nuclear submarines and the tactics of their use have not previously been encountered by NATO specialists. Despite the fact that returning to the operational activity of Soviet times is extremely difficult, primarily due to the difference in the number of submarines, the Russian military-industrial complex is able to resolve this issue. “The presence of modern missile weapons on board eliminates the imbalance with the number of submarines. In addition, the submarines are being modernized not only in terms of weapons, but also in terms of detection equipment, and ultimately, after the work is completed, their noise should also decrease - main reason their detection,” military expert Alexei Leonkov said in an interview with Zvezda. Of course, the efforts of the American military cannot be underestimated. The world's largest military budget allows the United States to experiment with detection capabilities to defend against Russian submarines, including missile attack submarines. submarine cruisers strategic purpose the most serious measures will be taken - including new developments regarding active-passive low-frequency systems. But the potential of Russian design bureaus engaged in the development of promising nuclear submarines, which in the near future will be armed with hypersonic missile weapons, should not be discounted either. In general, drawing parallels between the modernization of the Russian submarine fleet, assessments of NATO, the United States and activities to search for Russian submarines "at home" it is worth noting that in the next few years the US Navy expects difficult times, after all, if American border guards twice failed to respond in a timely manner to the appearance of Russian submarines near the coast of the country, then promising submarines, the development of which in this moment Russian design bureaus are busy, it will be even more difficult to find them near their own borders. Experts around the world rightly call Russian nuclear submarines with missile weapons “underwater sledgehammers” - these steel giants hint to their confident and aggressive colleagues that a retaliatory strike will come much sooner than it seems .