{"id":11470,"date":"2016-02-03T08:06:09","date_gmt":"2016-02-03T14:06:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hcstx.org\/?p=11470"},"modified":"2016-02-03T08:06:09","modified_gmt":"2016-02-03T14:06:09","slug":"russian-sub-activity-topping-cold-war-levels","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thetacticalhermit.com\/index.php\/2016\/02\/03\/russian-sub-activity-topping-cold-war-levels\/","title":{"rendered":"Russian Sub Activity Topping Cold War Levels"},"content":{"rendered":"<h3><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-11471\" src=\"https:\/\/hcsblogdotorg.files.wordpress.com\/2016\/02\/russian-submarines.jpg?w=620\" alt=\"russian-submarines\" width=\"620\" height=\"328\" \/><\/h3>\n<h3>Key Points<\/h3>\n<ul>\n<li>NATO is seeing Russian submarine activity in the North Atlantic return to Cold War levels<\/li>\n<li>Russian submarines have also made a major jump in technical capability, according to NATO&#8217;s top naval commander<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Russian submarine activity in the North Atlantic is currently equalling or even surpassing Cold War levels, according to NATO&#8217;s top naval officer.<\/p>\n<p>The North Atlantic was again and area &#8220;of concern&#8221; for the alliance, Vice Admiral Clive Johnstone, Commander of NATO&#8217;s Maritime Command, said, with the commanders of his submarine cells currently reporting &#8220;more activity from Russian submarines than we&#8217;ve seen since the days of the Cold War&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>Not only are Russian submarines returning to Cold War levels of operational activity, but Russian submarines have made a major jump in technological performance, Vice Adm Johnstone said, with NATO seeing &#8220;a level of Russian capability that we haven&#8217;t seen before&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>Russia, he said, &#8220;through an extraordinary investment path not mirrored by the West&#8221; has made &#8220;technology leaps that [are] remarkable, and credit to them.&#8221; Russian submarines now &#8220;have longer ranges, they have better systems, they&#8217;re freer to operate&#8221;, he said. The alliance has also &#8220;seen a rise in professionalism and ability to operate their boats that we haven&#8217;t seen before&#8221;, noted Vice Adm Johnstone, adding, &#8220;that is a concern&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>Together, this meant that the level of Russian submarine activity NATO is currently seeing in the North Atlantic is &#8220;very different from the period of quiet submarine activity that perhaps we&#8217;ve seen in the past&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>However he added, &#8220;I think none of that would worry us if we knew what the game plans were or we knew why they were deploying or what they were doing \u2026 we don&#8217;t understand what the strategic and operational objectives are of the Russian state.&#8221; This was because &#8220;a lot of what the Russians are doing at the moment we don&#8217;t understand, and is obscure and is shrouded in other activity which makes us nervous, and makes nations nervous&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p><b>Read the Original Partial Article at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.janes.com\/article\/57650\/russian-submarine-activity-topping-cold-war-levels\">Janes\u00a0<\/a><\/b><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Key Points NATO is seeing Russian submarine activity in the North Atlantic return to Cold War levels Russian submarines have also made a major jump in technical capability, according to NATO&#8217;s top naval commander Russian submarine activity in the North Atlantic is currently equalling or even surpassing Cold War levels, according to NATO&#8217;s top naval&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false}}},"categories":[74,4333,2378,2820,3563,2426,4319,1894,17,1898],"tags":[4332,4334,4335,4336,4337,4338],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thetacticalhermit.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11470"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thetacticalhermit.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thetacticalhermit.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thetacticalhermit.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thetacticalhermit.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11470"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/thetacticalhermit.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11470\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thetacticalhermit.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11470"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thetacticalhermit.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11470"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thetacticalhermit.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11470"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}