Russian subs exercise in the North Pole.

Russian submarine forces practice in the North Pole. According to the North Fleet captain Vadim Serga exercise focuses “on hazard and threat detection, on missile launching and navigation maneuvers, ice reconnaissance, submerging and emerging from ice, using torpedoes to undermine ice and many other issues”. He also added that “crew were given theoretical as well as practical exercises” and “younger crewmen to become better versed in Arctic warfare”. Source article also claims that among “the units which took part in the exercises were the crews of several Borei-class ballistic missile nuclear submarines”.

I care to comment on that a little bit. First of all “several” Borei-class subs. Really? Like how many of those Boreis are there? There are only three Boreis, two of which are assigned to Pacific fleet and one to Northern fleet. I seriously doubt that all three are taking part in the exercise. Even if they all are, three can hardly be called “several”. What is more captain Serga uses "crew", which is singular and may suggest that there is only one crew practicing.

Second of all it seems to me that Russians are quietly preparing for a fight under the ice cap. Why? This, as history shows, is a typical Russian strategy. In the WWII they did exactly the same.  Under false pretenses of spreading freedom in Europe they claimed a big part of it just for themselves and fenced off with the iron curtain. 

Russian will of course deny all that, like they deny fighting in Ukraine. That’s what they do. Lie and deceit. Meanwhile Russian subs will scour Arctic waters to refresh their knowledge, test equipment and train crews to be ready to fight.

This cat and mouse game has been going on since the end of WWII and the beginning of the Cold War. Russian subs have been playing the game with whoever has been in the opposition, Americans, British and the rest of the nuclear sub world.

I personally think that Arctic, in case of war, will be a very important battlefield and one of the bloodiest and most radioactive. Will see. Time will show.

Now we can only watch Cold War cat and mouse game happening under the ice cap.

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