It’s been slightly more than two decades since the Soviet Union used nuclear class submarines to patrol the south seas, but that is about to change under Russian president Vladmir Putin.
The announcement was officially made in March, but now Borei-class attack submarines will be indefinitely deployed in the Mediterranean Sea.
“The revival of nuclear submarine patrols will allow us to fulfill the tasks of strategic deterrence not only across the North Pole but also the South Pole,” state-run Itar-Tass cited an unnamed official in the military General Staff as saying.
These submarines have the capacity to carry and fire off up to sixteen nuclear warheads.
The Russian missile-carrying submarines should on a permanent basis patrol the areas whence they could, if necessary, launch sea-based ICBMs in no time.
At present, Russia has nine nuclear submarines in its Northern and Pacific Fleets. New submarines of the Borei-class are currently being built in Russia, complete with the Bulava solid-propellant missile.
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