The Failure of Russia’s Submarine Fleet

But we had boats that were called “roaring cows”, they “roared” to half of the ocean, but nevertheless were able to shoot cruise missiles and hit the target.

We have Varshavyanka diesel boats, they are considered low noise, because they go under water on motors – these are diesel electric submarines. There are nuclear submarines that go under water on a turbine launched through an atomic nuclear reactor. Of course, they make more noise, but this, again, is relative.

We do not have so many post-Soviet submarines – the Alexander Nevsky and the Yuri Dolgoruky. And then – these are some hybrids of all that was invented in the Soviet era. That is, cardinally nothing has changed in their design, and detection devices — naturally, they went ahead with us and with the likely adversary too.

The author of the Military Industrial Courier was given the task to write an article in which he had to exacerbate the problem a little. The situation described is not a disaster, but we will not solve all the problems in one day. Any ship is built long enough. Especially in our time, when almost the entire construction cycle is tied to only one shipyard. And before that, the entire Soviet Union worked on construction.

– The author of the article in the Military-Industrial Courier writes that NATO reconnaissance aircraft repeat the trajectories of our Russian submarine, and concludes that the enemy has new tracking systems for submarines, and we are lagging behind.

– For many years of scouting submarines, reconnaissance aircraft learned by heart the routes of their withdrawal from the bases of the Northern Fleet to the Atlantic Ocean. They are about the same. Plus or minus – 20 miles. They know where to look for our submarines.

But it is not a fact that they found them. They can just fly there just in case. The boat goes at a speed of 30 knots, and the plane flies at a speed of 400-500 kilometers per hour. These are incomparable speeds. It is like saying: “Our aircraft are following horse-drawn carts on the roads of the country.”

When I served in Kamchatka, flights of the American base patrol aviation almost always repeated our maneuvers. We were flown both in the surface and underwater for a number of years. Therefore, they have accumulated an array of information on where the noises were found and whether they often coincide with the fairway, that is, the greatest depths, allowing to go to a safe depth in a submerged position.

– So there should be an impetus for the development of new devices?

– Of course, it should be. Why did we have at one time submarines, whose immersion depth increased to 600 meters – a kilometer? Because the enemy had torpedoes with which it was possible to work at a depth of 400 meters. That is, being at a depth of 600 meters, one could feel invulnerable.

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