In October, Russia sent a monstrous fleet of submarines past UK waters into the Atlantic Ocean in what defence analysts described as a direct challenge to the US.Then in November, a similar submarine challenge was made near Scotland, as nuclear fast attack submarines twice staged underwater ‘duels’ while also testing NATO defences between Scotland, Iceland and Greenland in the Atlantic, Moscow reports claimed.
Express.co.uk: Russia sending submarines to UK at ‘cold war levels’
This archive photo shows Russian nuclear submarine, the Yuri Dolgoruky, driving in the water area of the Sevmash factory in the northern city of Arkhangelsk on July 2, 2009.