The U.S. national security adviser Jake Sullivan told reporters on Wednesday that the Russian deployment of a marine flotilla to Cuba was generally in line with Moscow’s regular military posturing.
” There are aspects of this one that are unique, that are distinct”, he said. They have a submarine connected to this switch visit that is unique among them.
Several officials with knowledge of the situation told McClatchy and the Miami Herald that the Biden administration’s decision to send a nuclear submarine to Cuba has served as a reminder of how unpopular Moscow is with continuing to support Ukraine and how its growing ability to plant American coastlines with stealth submersibles is growing.
The mind of the U.S. Northern Command just last month warned Congress that Moscow might soon install 12 also developed nuclear submarines squabbling between the Pacific and the Atlantic, posing a “persistent regular threat” to the country.
Once the Yasen-class submarines are often equipped with hypersonic missiles capable of moving numerous occasions the speed of sound,” the danger will only become more severe later in the decade,” according to Air Force Gen. Gregory Guillot.
U.S. officials are currently assessing whether the existing Russian implementation, which will result in military exercises in the Caribbean, will mark the start of a design of Russian submarine activity that may need a more significant shift in U.S. force posture.
The Kazan, a Yasen- group post, joined three additional Russian fight vessels that U. S. officials characterized as regular visitors to Cuba’s shores.
The implementation is” everything we watch carefully, carefully”, Sullivan said.
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As the Kazan breached the lakes of the harbor of Havana on Wednesday, Russian state media reported that the vehicle had demonstrated it is” capable of slowly approaching U. S. coasts” within 50 meters, or about 30 yards. On its way to Cuba, the Russian ships had followed the coast of Florida by a similar range, according to U.S. officials who spoke to McClatchy on Tuesday.
” If she wants to hide, they will surely gain her, she will tear away”, said Mikhail Budnichenko, chairman of the submarine system, as quoted by TASS, a Soviet state- run media organization. This is the most recent development in Russian science and technology, according to the author.
A state-of-the-art submersible, the Kazan, a nuclear-powered vessel capable of carrying and firing nuclear cruise missiles, is a newly designed fleet meant to replace Russia’s aging Soviet-era nuclear submarines.
A U.S. official assured McClatchy and the Herald that the Kazan was never tracked as it approached Havana, according to a U.S. official. The USS Truxtun, USS Donald Cook, and USS Delbert D. Black were among the three guided missile destroyers dispatched by McClatchy on Tuesday, along with a Coast Guard cutter, a Boeing P-8 maritime patrol aircraft, and three other USNCOM-enlisted personnel to patrol Russian military installations.
However, Moscow’s advancements in submarine technology have accelerated in recent years. Prior to this year, Guillot’s predecessor warned Congress that Yasen-class submarines like the Kazan could begin routinely patrolling American coasts this year or next.
The threat “is absolutely increasing”, Gen. Glen VanHerck told lawmakers, referring to the Russian submarine deployments,” now not only the Atlantic, but we also have them in the Pacific”.
” It’s just a matter of time— probably a year or two — before that’s a persistent threat, 24 hours a day”, VanHerck added. In a crisis, a national senior leader’s decision-making space has been constrained by that impact.
The Russian Navy will be able to “pose a persistent conventional threat to critical infrastructure throughout most of North America,” Guillot told the Senate last month.
” The threat will only become more acute later in the decade when]Russian submarines ] are armed with the Tsirkon hypersonic missile”, Guillot said.
The Kazan is not known to be carrying hypersonic missiles on its current deployment, according to U.S. officials who informed McClatchy and the Herald.
However, another unnamed Russian official was quoted by TASS on Wednesday, saying that a close approach to the U.S. coast would not even be necessary because the Kazan and its escorts could be equipped with such powerful weapons.
A sub would n’t need to come as close as 50 kilometers to the U. S. shore, TASS quoted the official as saying,” but in principle, it can”.
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