Defense and security analyst prof. Michael Clarke stated in the newspaper that OHIO class submarines equipped with nuclear missiles should be deep in the waters of the Atlantic and peaceful ocean. “They move very slowly and noiselessly, remaining under water for 70 days or longer, without emerging, because it is a deadly game in quiet scares, which has been conducted with Moscow for 60 years. They do not have to approach Russia to maintain this threat” – emphasized the expert.
Clarke reminded that each of these units is armed with bullets with a range of over 11 thousand. km, which means that they could attack Moscow or any other place in Russia, from any of the oceans patrolled by them. He noted, “a real threat [ze strony amerykańskich okrętów] It is not what they can do, because the strength is well known for years, but their ability to remain elusive and undetectable during actions. “
The expert presented the scale of Ohio ships, informing that 12 such units are patrolling Atlants and Pacific. Each of them can have up to 20 TRIDENT II D5 ballistic missiles on board, and each of these missile can carry up to 12 independently targeted heads, although some of them are of lure. This means that each ship of this type can provide a mixture of 240 nuclear heads and lure in any place in the northern hemisphere. “Every US president knows that every day he has the opportunity to fire around 1,000 nuclear heads only from this part of his arsenal of nuclear forces” – explained prof. Clarke.
In a very similar tone, he commented on Trump's decision “Telegraph”, writing that “It is a gesture almost completely devoid of meaning“” For many decades, every second, every hour, around the clock, each day, American and French and British submarines are ready to destroy Russia. There was no need to move them to achieve this, “said journalist Lewis Page.
He suggested that Trump could try to confuse the Russian side. “As a commander -in -chief, he could easily say that he ordered the arrangement of two atomic submarines near Russia simply as part of normal military activities,” the journalist noted.
Trump answered the words of Medvedev
The BBC station asked the question: “Are we dealing for the first time in history when the dispute in social media led to the escalation of the nuclear conflict?” She reminded that the US President was to give the order that two ships would approach the borders of Russia when he was offended by entries on the social network by former Russian president Dmitry Medvedev.
The BBC asked further questions whether the world is approaching the “nuclear impasse between America and Russia” or “the online version of the Cuban crisis of 1962”. At the same time, she replied that the lack of reaction from Moscow may mean that or the situation is analyzed And there was still no decision on how to respond to Trump's actions or Vladimir Putin does not feel the need to respond. The BBC is inclined to the latter option in the commentary.
