US Navy's Air & Sea Assets Track Russian Sub Off East Coast, While Rest Of Flotilla Heads South
The US military's air and sea assets are closely tracking the Russian naval flotilla that recently docked in Havana, Cuba. The flotilla has since split, with a nuclear-powered submarine returning north to the Atlantic Ocean. Meanwhile, the remaining warships are heading south, with a possible port call in Venezuela.
Earlier this week, a US official told the local paper, Miami Herald, about the new movements of the Russian naval flotilla. The official explained how US and Canadian warships, including destroyers and Coast Guard cutters, were tracking the submarine as it traveled back up the Florida coast in international waters.
X user TheIntelFrog suggested by late Thursday night, that the Russian sub is likely "several hundred Kilometers offshore of North Carolina, Northbound," given a number of US air assets in the area.
Air and Sea assets seem to confirm the Russian Flotilla is several hundred Kilometers off shore of North Carolina, Northbound. USS Truxtun was active on MarineTraffic ~3 hours ago, and was known to be shadowing the Russians.
— TheIntelFrog (@TheIntelFrog) June 21, 2024
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The official with the US Northern Command said the US Navy continues to track the movements of the Russian flotilla, which includes the missile frigate Admiral Gorshkov, the nuclear-powered cruise missile submarine Kazan, the oil tanker Pashin, and the salvage tug Nikolai Chiker. They noted the flotilla had split, with the nuclear sub moving north to the Atlantic and the rest of its warships likely making a port call in Venezuela.
"Their presence in the Western Hemisphere marks the first significant Russian naval deployment in the region in five years and the first deployment of a nuclear submarine since the end of the Cold War," the paper said.
This comes as the Biden administration projects weakness worldwide as the world fractures into a dangerous multi-polar state.
Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis recently blamed Biden's "posture of weakness" for a fleet of Russian warships sailing off South Florida's coast last week with a port call in Cuba.
"We're failing as a country with the deterrent capability, and I think it starts at the top with the president of the United States," Gov. DeSantis said.
The governor added: "They're not going to be deterred by a president wandering around aimlessly at the G7."
Everyone freaking out about that Biden clip at G7.
— Viva Frei (@thevivafrei) June 13, 2024
I found the full video. The longer clip, in context, is even more horrifying. pic.twitter.com/obFINP7RNE
If the elderly President Biden appeared as clueless at the recent G7 meeting as he did, then he's even more out of touch when defending the Homeland.
