RU: Only seven nuclear submarine patrols in 2008
While Russia’s strategic bombers weekly fly over the Arctic or outside Norwegian airspace in the north, the Russian Navy’s nuclear powered submarines mostly stay pier side at their homeports on the Kola Peninsula and in the Far East.
A report published by the Federation of American Scientists earlier this month reads that the Russian Navy conducted only seven attack submarine patrols in 2008, the same as in 2007. The number of patrols with strategic submarines last year is not yet published, but in 2007 there were only three.
The report is based on declassified information provided by US naval intelligence and is referred to by Agence France-Presse (AFP).
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