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Russian attack submarine sailed in Gulf of Mexico undetected for weeks, U.S. officials say
A Russian nuclear-powered attack submarine armed with long-range cruise missiles operated undetected in the Gulf of Mexico for several weeks and its travel in strategic U.S. waters was only confirmed after it left the region, the Washington Free Beacon has learned.
It is only the second time since 2009 that a Russian attack submarine has patrolled so close to U.S. shores.
The stealth underwater incursion in the Gulf took place at the same time Russian strategic bombers made incursions into restricted U.S. airspace near Alaska and California in June and July, and highlights a growing military assertiveness by Moscow.
The submarine patrol also exposed what U.S. officials said were deficiencies in U.S. anti-submarine warfare capabilities—forces that are facing cuts under the Obama administration’s plan to reduce defense spending by $487 billion over the next 10 years.
The Navy is in charge of detecting submarines, especially those that sail near U.S. nuclear missile submarines, and uses undersea sensors and satellites to locate and track them.
The fact that the Akula was not detected in the Gulf is cause for concern, U.S. officials said.
The officials who are familiar with reports of the submarine patrol in the Gulf of Mexico said the vessel was a nuclear-powered Akula-class attack submarine, one of Russia’s quietest submarines.
A Navy spokeswoman declined to comment.
123321123321
August 14th, 2012
“A Navy spokeswoman declined to comment.” How could she? It might make fearless leader look bad!
dude
August 14th, 2012
It had 1472 illegals packed into it, Janet and obumbles turn a blind eye to vehicles loaded with illegals
grayscape
August 14th, 2012
If Fast and Furious is any clue, Obama probably told the Navy to leave the Gulf and ignore all his comrads driving around preparing to occupy the RAAAAACIST southern states and defend his takeover as Putin’s puppet dictator in the new USKKKA.
Lowell
August 14th, 2012
I don’t care. They weren’t muslims, they were Russians.
vangrungy
August 14th, 2012
“I don’t care. They weren’t muslims, they were Russians.”
idiocy..
Birdie Num Num
August 14th, 2012
The thugs and mischief makers of the planet know that there is a substitute teacher in the WH that they can throw spitballs at.
Milwaukee Mike
August 14th, 2012
I blame the lesbo Brig. Gen.
Chuck U Farley
August 14th, 2012
EMP strike dry-runs?
dba...vagabond trader
August 14th, 2012
Yeah, but were any of the Russkies gay? I mean lets focus on the important issues here.
Stranded in Sonoma
August 14th, 2012
There could be more to this than first thought. NATO class name Akula (Shark) is an attack sub. However, the Russians have named one of their own subs the Akula class. It is NOT an attack sub. IT IS A BOOMER! We call them the Typhoon class. She displaces more than a WWI battleship, holds 20 ballistic missles, and she is HUGE!
So which is it? Are we talking about the NATO designation or the Russian designation. IT’S IMPORTANT!
scr_north
August 14th, 2012
What “US oficials”? I’m not surprised the military didn’t comment on this. If they deny it was undetected then the russkies redouble their efforts to make if quieter, if you confirm it then the russkies redouble their efforts to make it quieter because they figure the US is conning them and their sub was tracked. I’d be more inclined to think that they sub was followed by a US boat every foot of it’s journey.
General Disgust
August 14th, 2012
“The officials who are familiar with reports of the submarine patrol in the Gulf of Mexico said the vessel was a nuclear-powered Akula-class attack submarine, one of Russia’s QUIETEST submarines.”
I call BULLSHIT on that. They had to be Obama-appointed officials because they are flat-out LYING. The Akula (Shark) class attack submarine is NOT one of the quietest. In fact, due to it’s nuclear power plant coolant pump’s shitty design, it’s one of the NOISIEST submarine designs out there. And thanks to Obama defense cutbacks, it allowed this sub to also become the NOSIEST, sticking it’s snout into our backyard where it’s not wanted.
I fish out in the damn Gulf! If I see some commie periscope nosing around, I’m gonna throw a full can of beer at it, that’s how mad I am.
Here’s another piece of defense info the MSM will never tell you: prior to the USA winning the Cold War, the Akulas’ propeller got quieted down by several magnitudes after Japan’s Toshiba Corporation and Norway’s Kongberg VapenFabrik sold highly-secret classified US propeller grinding technology to the G-ddamned Soviet Union.
Thanks, “allies”, you miserable shitweasels!!
MaryfromMarin
August 14th, 2012
@Chuck and @Stranded–
Your comments make me nervous. All this is okay to read about in Tom Clancy novels, but those books have REAL Presidents in charge of things.
We are so teetering on the edge of annihilation as a country, in more ways than one.
Bad Brad
August 14th, 2012
General Disgust
“Here’s another piece of defense info the MSM will never tell you: prior to the USA winning the Cold War, the Akulas’ propeller got quieted down by several magnitudes after Japan’s Toshiba Corporation and Norway’s Kongberg VapenFabrik sold highly-secret classified US propeller grinding technology to the G-ddamned Soviet Union.”
I can vouch on that one. Stole it from a defense contractor out of Mountain View Cali.
But that craps been going on forever. TRW sold the Ruskies equipment to grind precision bearings back in the 60′s allowing them to vastly improve the accuracy of their ICBM’s. Before that they were lucky if their missiles hit the ground. Then there’s Wild Bill Clinton and Space Systems Loral selling stuff to the Chicoms. Anything for a buck I guess.
1789Patriot
August 14th, 2012
Who says this is a failure of the Obama presidency? It’s exactly what the traitor-in-chief wants.
Roscoe P. Soultrane
August 14th, 2012
@General Disgust: “the Akulas’ propeller got quieted down by several magnitudes after Japan’s Toshiba Corporation and Norway’s Kongberg VapenFabrik sold highly-secret classified US propeller grinding technology to the G-ddamned Soviet Union.”
Wasn’t it the Victor III class subs that were the primary beneficiaries of Toshiba-Kongsberg? They were the ones that were markedly quieter than their predecessors.
As far as the scandal itself – the Sovs always said that the West would sell them the rope that they’d use to hang us. It’s the downside of a free market – anyone can sell anything to anyone. Sucks, but once you let your high-tech stuff get into third party hands, you’ve lost control of it and are prisoner to their good/bad intentions.
Unneutral
August 14th, 2012
Just stand down, I’m sure if the Ruskies see how gentle we are, they’ll become our friends and we’ll all sing Kumbaya especially since Obutthole is rapidly diminishing our defense ability.
Roscoe P. Soultrane
August 14th, 2012
@Chuck U Farley: “EMP strike dry-runs?”
Maybe, but playing around in someone’s pool like that is also like saying “Nice multi-billion dollar aircraft carrier ya got there. Be a shame if anything happened to it.”
Navy Squid
August 14th, 2012
I miss the good old days of ASW; when we could track a Ruskie sub through the ocean by the radioactive wake they left. They have a whole fleet of their early nukes welded side by side in the north sea, still far to “hot” to put people aboard to scrap them.
Our SOSUS (SOund SUrveillance System) network *should* have picked up this boat – but I don’t know if this system is still in use or not today, what with all the budget cuts and all. (I retired in 1997, was a Sonar Technician – or as the LibTards would say, a Whale Killer!)
US Navy Corpseman
August 14th, 2012
Prez Barry ‘the weak’ probably cowering under his desk sucking his thumb. What a miserable, incompetent Commander-in Chief we’re stuck with for 5 more months. I think we used to have several VP squadrons in Florida to monitor this type of intrusion – did they have to stand down?? And didn’t I see an item last week about Russkies wanting naval base in Cuba??
Mark Zist
August 14th, 2012
They are getting ready for more “flexibility”.
Clyde
August 14th, 2012
Give the rooskies a break. All they were doing was following the cruise ships for food being tossed over the sides.
Weldor
August 14th, 2012
Or quite possibly the Akula had a Seawolf on its six the entire time and we’d just as soon the Russkies remain clueless.
Lowell
August 14th, 2012
From vangrungy: “idiocy..”
Dude, we don’t have a sarcasm font. That was what I was doing.
And, many moons ago I worked in remote sensor technologies, the kind we don’t admit we have and go to lengths to conceal even from our ‘friends’ we have.
No way the rooskies put a fission powered boat in the gulf and we didn’t know. No way.
Xavier
August 14th, 2012
“only the second time since 2009 that a Russian attack submarine has patrolled so close”
Somehow that’s not exactly reassuring. Neither is that fact that a bunch of you guys sound like you know what you’re talking about.
Houston
August 14th, 2012
You know, I keep bringing up the Cold War and how my kids don’t understand what it was like. Unfortunately Comrade Putin is going to make sure they learn how it was with the new Cold War.
Ann Barnhardt
August 14th, 2012
Russian sub in the Gulf for weeks? Shit, that’s nothing. We’ve had a Russian agent in the Oval Office for 3 1/2 years.
Daddy Davis’ CPUSA number was 47544.
Chuck U Farley
August 14th, 2012
@Roscoe – I wasn’t just referencing the sub in the Gulf. The article also tied in the recent Ruskie incursions into/near our airspace. Put ‘em together and you have at least three conventional strike platforms just off our coastlines. All you need.
Bob M.
August 14th, 2012
How come SUPER STEALTH SEAL Obama didn’t stop it?
Friend of the family
August 14th, 2012
I believe it’s going to take just one bomb to wreck our country. Any big city will do. The communications breakdown and panic alone will paralyze ten times worse than 9/11. So maybe, you’ll be sitting at your computer while the TV’s on in the other room, as you laugh at something on Facebook, suddenly you hear New York has just been vaporized. You won’t be sitting at your desk for long will you now? Hell no. We, the government and everyone else are going to freak out. What a delight for the liberals to institute martial law. Someone said you’ll run to the FEMA camp for safety and protection. You’ll get it too, for a while. But you ain’t coming out alive. If you manage to get out to the hills, you better hide good. The hordes are going to be mean and hungry. It’s 1955 again. Just what was that sub doing there? Russia’s getting ready.
Katechon
August 14th, 2012
“Daddy Davis’ CPUSA number was 47544.”
In The Communist, Kengor delves deep into Davis’s past to produce an extensively documented biography of the man who had perhaps the most influence on Barack Obama of anyone in his life. Davis was a highly influential member of the American Communist Party, CPUSA member #47544, according to the FBI. He spent a lifetime engaged in pro-Soviet, communist activities. He likely moved to Hawaii to engage in surveillance for the Soviets, who considered the islands – not yet a U.S. state – of key military significance. Kengor shows just how deep Davis’s communist ties were, and how important he was to Obama’s worldview.
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Jethro
August 14th, 2012
“…operated undetected in the Gulf of Mexico for several weeks and its travel in strategic U.S. waters was only confirmed after it left the region…”
I don’t get it.
If it was undetected how was it confirmed “after” it left the region?
In the old days we knew where EVERY enemy sub was in the world. Our technology is better now.
I call BS on this story. We knew it was there all along…
FreeMan - Sorry Sarah, Next Time
August 14th, 2012
Spy and sub killing is what it was designed for.
No ICBM but you wouldn’t need it if you were within 20 miles. Torpedo launched Cruse Missiles can carry small nukes and EMP devices.
Just one of these off the East Coast could take out most of New York City and DC’s electronics in about 10 minutes and no one could stop it.
Did it leave after OBysmal asked for more time? It is about the same timing.
FreeMan - Sorry Sarah, Next Time
August 14th, 2012
The Russians did not build that Sub
Jethro
August 14th, 2012
@ Ann
“Daddy Davis’ CPUSA number was 47544″
You HAVE seen the pictures….
http://quitenormal.files.wordpress.com/2012/04/2012-04-26-09-16-16-am.jpg?w=593&h=320
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UMUlWbO1rhk&feature=player_embedded
http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-3PY8VkydTII/T6wSaCgaaUI/AAAAAAAABfQ/xMNHWeFD0dU/s1600/side-photos-of-frank-and-obama.jpg
Millertime
August 14th, 2012
Remember the missile launch off the SoCal coast recently? That got buried and forgotten
Katechon
August 14th, 2012
http://quitenormal.files.wordpress.com/2012/04/2012-04-26-09-16-16-am.jpg?w=593&h=320
This is Barack’s mother ??
DanlBoone
August 14th, 2012
that’s what they say.. sure looks like her
unfortunate really
I don’t think that the progressive-left mind has a clue who we really are though..
Katechon
August 14th, 2012
That’s EXPLOSIVE material for anti-Obama SuperPACs.
Could resonate strongly among the swing voters.
DanlBoone
August 14th, 2012
we have an enemy in the WH
DanlBoone
August 14th, 2012
just a maudlin footnote of the Obama atrocity–
but, the connection to the communist influence of the men that O’s mother slept with is significant, in my mind.
Mark Zist
August 14th, 2012
We had a huge oil leak in the gulf and the administration did nothing about that either.
DanlBoone
August 14th, 2012
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I do remember a photo-op with Obama wearing some work-boots and walking around and stuff–
sometimes he pointed at things, just like comrade Kim Jong-il used to do
plus he talked with his daughter about it when he was shaving, recall him saying:
so there was that..
Dickey Do Fan
August 14th, 2012
Just got banned from race42012.com — a Republican blog — for posting the links of jethro.
Lots of folks were outraged and called me vile. Why? I don’t get this.
scribble
August 14th, 2012
I guess Vladimir couldn’t wait until after the election.
Buffalobob
August 15th, 2012
I guess Big Sis has shall we say “been a little distracted lately”.
Blink
August 15th, 2012
The Russian subs ability to do this has a lot to do with the information provided by the John Walker spy ring that operated from 1967 till 1987. 25 years later that information is still a big help to them. What awaits us over the next 3 decades from the information the Obaman admin has provided to our enemies?
Kang Baay
August 15th, 2012
The acting commander in chief had a new book on the rules of engagement drawn up. A four page book with a large centerfold picture of a U.S. military general with his pants down around his ankles, bent over a barrel with a white flag in one hand and a koran sealed in plastic in the other hand.
The caption reads, “have at it, we are sorry for making you mad.”
shotwell
August 15th, 2012
It’s like this. When Jimma Carter was President the military said,”FuxK You”. Now we got Barack. Same thing.
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General Ripper
August 15th, 2012
Brad & Roscoe – yep, it was primarily the Victor III class that benefited but so did the Akula’s and the Typhoons.
As for Loral, prior to their bribing the Clinton’s and Algore to allow Loral to sell highly-classified ballistic missile technology to Communist China, the ChiCom’s best CEP Circular Error of Probability was something on the order of three miles. But within less than a year, their next ICBM test had a CEP of only 300 yards. Thanks Traitor Clintons & Traitor Algore!
I’ll make this prediction right now: just like the Venona Papers proved that hundreds of well-known Libtards were flat-out Soviet spies and traitors from the 40′s, 50′s and 60′s, I hope within my lifetime that Communist China collapses and becomes a true republic practicing democracy.
Their intelligence archives will open up and the Clintons, Algore and all the other Libtard traitors will be exposed for the America-hating backstabing shitweasels they truly are. Best thing of all is that treason has no statute of limitations. Stand ‘em up against a wall, give ‘em an unfiltered Camel cigarette and tell the firing squad, “!Fuego!”