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Kilo Class Diesel/Electric Submarine RFS Vladikavkaz seen as she transits the Kronstadt Roads during Navy Day celebrations,July 28th 2019.

Kilo Class diesel/electric Attack Submarine RFS Kolpino pictured at Sevastopol,May 15th 2020.

Russian Black Sea Sub Deployments to Mediterranean Could Violate Treaty

The Russian Navy’s Black Sea Fleet recently has been deploying its submarines to the Mediterranean, despite a decades-old international treaty which many thought would prevent those deployments.

The Montreux Convention, agreed to in 1936, prohibits submarines from passing through the Bosporus Strait, which connects the Black Sea to the Mediterranean. There are exceptions in the treaty for special cases for Black Sea nations: delivery of new submarines to the Black Sea and transits for repairs. Russia is now routinely using these clauses to reestablish a permanent submarine presence in the Mediterranean.

The deployment of these submarines to the Mediterranean is a serious concern for NATO leadership. Speaking at the International Institute for Strategic Studies on June 25, Adm. James Foggo, Commander of U.S. Naval Forces in Europe and Africa, described the Eastern Mediterranean as “one of the most kinetic areas in the world.” He said, “the Russians are deploying quiet, modern, diesel submarines capable of launching the Kalibr cruise missile.”
This refers to diesel-electric Kilo-class boats deploying to the region from the Black Sea via the Bosporus.

Continues at:
https://news.usni.org/2020/07/08/russia ... rSDMHwMixM

A worrying president David ? or a flexing of muscle to excite the neighbours .

This decimated naval nation , or so it was claimed after the collapse seems to have been very busy whilst we in Nato have been preoccupied perhaps

What with their activity of our shores , artic passages and no doubt other "interesting areas" like the Med should be ringing alarm bells surely

Here is a pic of one of the Russian KILO's going thru the Bosporus, and a link to a article about this.........


https://www.navalnews.com/naval-news/20 ... terranean/


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Kilo Class diesel/electric Attack Submarines RFS Kolpino and RFS Velikiy Novgorod pictured at the run down Sub Base at Sevastopol in June 2020.

Improved Kilo Class Submarine RFS Magadan preparing for launch from JSC Admiralty Shipyards at Saint Petersburg..2021.

Kilo Class Submarine RFS Veliky Novgorod pictured as she arrives at Sevastopol in July 2021.