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I’m surprised the diving planes on the conning tower survived breaking through the ice. I guess the point is to be able to launch a missile through the arctic icecap wherever it is thing enough to break through.
For those who know about these things that was very impressive and very succinct demonstration of commanders and sailors skills. The potential for getting that wrong was jsut as great as it would be for a close formation fly past of fighter jets.
More imprtantly however was this showed both the British Royal Navy and the US Navy that Russia can potentially get enough missiles in the air – with just those 3 submarines – to totally destroy all priority targets in North America and the UK and Western Europe using MIRVs, or just about anything else anywhere from that North Pole position.
Apparently at least one torpedo was test fired. I would very much like to know what the torpedo test target was / type of torpedo used as this too would be a message sent.
This demonstration, on the back of the demonstration of the northern sea route viability demonstration, was I suspect no coincidence.
Apparently there was also a demonstration of other capability involving the Russian air force at thier expanding and increasingly important arctic air base on the extremely remote Franz Josef Archipelego. This base should be watched closely – it will play a big part in protecting the northern sea route in the future:
https://www.thedrive.com/the-war-zone/35899/russia-is-extending-the-runway-at-its-arctic-base-could-support-tactical-jets-bombers
I find these demonstrations by Russia very interesting as they come at a time when the US and UK are posturing towards Russia in the Arctic.
Also interesting – and perhaps not a coincidence – is that the most important sea route for Petro-Dollar trade, the suez canal route, became “accidently” blocked just when the US and UK suggested they need to examine how they could block the northern sea route and dominate the arctic in the event of a conflict with Russia.
For those interested in how the US may move to dominate Russia in the arctic, the recently declassified (Jan 2021) document called “Regaining Arctic Dominance”, US Army, is worth a look.
Thanks for that appreciation of the overall situation – very useful
It appears that Russia rules the Arctic region, for now, and probably for a long time. USA does not appear to have such subs, and only two icebreakers that I know of.
Probably good news for the Arctic regions.
Torpedoes can be used to Break Up even Thicker Ice – I would suspect that the Russian Navy has a Specialized Weapon for doing just that, given the Importance of the Arctic. As for the U.S. Imagining taking “Control” of the Arctic, they have No Nuclear-Powered Icebreakers that can go into that Ocean in the Wintertime.
Wait, not so fast! What about Norway and Sweden. They are both working with the US and NATO in the arctic, and they are both very scary!!