{"id":3803,"date":"2018-06-25T23:37:45","date_gmt":"2018-06-25T23:37:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/dcss\/?p=3803"},"modified":"2018-06-25T23:37:45","modified_gmt":"2018-06-25T23:37:45","slug":"seawolf-the-secret-submarine-the-us-navy-does-not-want-to-talk-about","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/dcss\/2018\/06\/25\/seawolf-the-secret-submarine-the-us-navy-does-not-want-to-talk-about\/","title":{"rendered":"SEAWOLF THE SECRET SUBMARINE THE US NAVY DOES NOT WANT TO TALK ABOUT"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Source: The National Interest<\/p>\n

By David Axe<\/p>\n

So what was Seawolf doing under the ice? Most likely simply training \u2026 for fighting under ice.<\/p>\n

For a submarine crew, going to the Arctic \u201cgives us the opportunity to test our combat systems, our navigation systems, our communication systems and just what it\u2019s like to operate in this very challenging environment,\u201d Roughead said four years ago. And there are good reasons besides a tradition of secrecy to do so quietly. Consider Moscow\u2019s reaction to the 2009 ICEX. \u201cAny action by foreign submarines in the vicinity of Russia\u2019s maritime borders naturally demand heightened scrutiny on our part,\u201d a Kremlin spokesperson warned.<\/p>\n

Sometime apparently in August 2013, the U.S. Navy\u2019s nuclear-powered attack submarine USS Seawolf eased out of the port of Bremerton, in Washington State, on what was probably her fifth or sixth deployment since commissioning in 1997.<\/p>\n

Read more at: http:\/\/nationalinterest.org\/blog\/the-buzz\/step-aboard-the-seawolf-the-secret-submarines-the-navy-26399<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Source: The National Interest By David Axe So what was Seawolf doing under the ice? Most likely simply training \u2026 for fighting under ice. For a submarine crew, going to the Arctic \u201cgives us the opportunity to test our combat systems, our navigation systems, our communication systems and just what it\u2019s like to operate in… Continue reading SEAWOLF THE SECRET SUBMARINE THE US NAVY DOES NOT WANT TO TALK ABOUT<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":3804,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3803","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-defence-industry","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/dcss\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3803","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/dcss\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/dcss\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/dcss\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/dcss\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3803"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/dcss\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3803\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3805,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/dcss\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3803\/revisions\/3805"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/dcss\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3804"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/dcss\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3803"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/dcss\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3803"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/dcss\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3803"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}