NATO Devises Ways to Tackle "Increasing Threat" From Russian Submarines

© Sputnik / Alexei Danichev / Go to the mediabankFrom left: the Kolpino diesel submarine, the Pyotr Veliky nuclear-powered guided-missile heavy cruiser, and the Dmitry Donskoi nuclear-powered ballistic missile submarine during the final rehearsal of the naval parade to celebrate Russian Navy Day in Kronstadt
From left: the Kolpino diesel submarine, the Pyotr Veliky nuclear-powered guided-missile heavy cruiser, and the Dmitry Donskoi nuclear-powered ballistic missile submarine during the final rehearsal of the naval parade to celebrate Russian Navy Day in Kronstadt - Sputnik International
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In September, Chairman of the US Joint Chiefs of Staff Gen. Joseph Dunford admitted that the North Atlantic Treaty Organisation (NATO) is losing its military advantage over Russia.

NATO is contemplating means to address what they perceive as the "heightened activities" of Russian submarines.

Over the last month, the navies of several bloc members, such as Belgium, Italy, Turkey, Poland, the UK, and the US, carried out military drills off the coast of Portugal in a bid to learn the surveillance techniques necessary for the detection of enemy submarines. Russia's submarine fleet was designated as "the foe" in the wargames.

© Sputnik / Aleksei Kudenko / Go to the mediabankRussian Oscar-Class Submarine of Project 949 in Kamchatka
NATO Devises Ways to Tackle Increasing Threat From Russian Submarines - Sputnik International
Russian Oscar-Class Submarine of Project 949 in Kamchatka

More than a dozen different systems were tested during the manoeuvres. In particular, the alliance deployed the REMUS 600 drone to detect underwater vessels.

The bloc previously acknowledged that they do not possess a sufficient number of modernised ships fitted with sonar systems allowing for the detection of enemy submarines. Moreover, the existing fleet does not have the ability to control the world's oceans to predict a potential strike.

Money Well Spent?

According to experts, NATO's aspirations to detect submarines will eventually wind up being another pretext to wheedle hundreds of millions of dollars out of national budgets. They believe that even the oversized US military budget is not sufficient to purchase enough equipment to control all the oceans.

The argument that the US can come under a nuclear strike from the ocean does not hold water either, as in the event of US aggression, Russia would be able to launch missiles from its own territorial waters.

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