According to the interlocutor of the agency, the coordinates of the submarine were transferred to a detachment of warships led by the frigate of the Pacific Fleet Marshal Shaposhnikov
MOSCOW, February 13. /tass/. A nuclear submarine of the US Navy of the Virginia type was discovered in the territorial waters of the Russian Federation in the Kuril area by Il-38 anti-submarine aircraft and one of the submarines of the Pacific Fleet (Pacific Fleet) during planned exercises to search for a submarine of a conditional enemy. This was reported to TASS by a source close to the naval sphere.
"An American Virginia-type submarine was detected by IL-38 aircraft of naval aviation and one of the Pacific Fleet boats during exercises to search for and destroy submarines of a simulated enemy in the areas of their possible deployment," he said.
According to the interlocutor of the agency, the coordinates of the submarine were transferred to a detachment of warships led by the frigate of the Pacific Fleet Marshal Shaposhnikov. After that, the Russian multipurpose ship performed all the necessary actions to protect the state border of the Russian Federation. He noted that the American submarine had objective advantages in detecting the Russian surface ship, but the operational actions of the anti-submarine forces of the Pacific Fleet, apparently, caught her by surprise, and the boat did not have time to leave the area of the exercise unnoticed.
