Pentagon Denies Reports of Russian Sub near U.S.

RIA Novosti ^ | 16 August 2012 | Staff

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Pentagon denied on Thursday media reports that a Russian nuclear powered submarine cruised unnoticed for several weeks in the Gulf of Mexico near the shores of the United States.

“I don't know what that information was based on, but it was not correct,” Wendy Snyder, a spokeswoman for the Pentagon, said.

The Washington Free Beacon reported earlier that Russia’s Akula class nuclear powered submarine (Project 971) freely traveled in June and July in the waters of the Gulf of Mexico undetected by the U.S. Navy.

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SOSUS was decommissioned by Clinton in the 1990’s.

The NAVFACs were closed.

All that is left is the Naval Ocean Processing Facility at Whidbey Island and the IUSS Operations Support Center at Norfolk, Virginia.

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so what's your best guess - were they in the Gulf or not I'm gonna say no. A vessel could go into the Gulf undetected. But I highly doubt that it would go undetected for weeks.

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so what's your best guess - were they in the Gulf or not

I'm gonna say no. A vessel could go into the Gulf undetected. But I highly doubt that it would go undetected for weeks.

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“How are they not relevant? I was comparing the improved Akula class to the improved LA class. They are about the same with the Akula quieter at 5-7 knots.”

When an LA-class sub goes in for an Engineered Overhaul, it gets state-of-the-art upgrades to virtually every system, including propulsion. The refurbished LA-class subs are going to be quieter than the “improved” LA-class subs built 20 years ago.

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Pentagon Denies Reports of Russian Sub near U.S.

Of course they would!

[Chode]

yeah, and a lot of the credit goes to Toshiba who sold sophisticated, nine axis milling equipment to the Soviets along with the computer control systems to machine their screws...