The defense states that no own or allied vessels were in the vicinity. – The Newspaper Nordland

the Defense says that no own or allied vessels were in the vicinity.

It was 13.30 time Saturday that fiskeskøyta “Little brother” and reported that it had made a sharp evasive action to avoid being purely in the lower of a submarine. Smack was then at Givær in Bodø municipality.

It is the site aldrimer.now, as writing this.

According to them, came the message to the Armed forces via the police.

Norwegian joint Headquarters (FHO) acknowledge the message.

Searched for five hours

– We can confirm that FOH got a message about the possible observation of the submarine in the Vestfjord 22. October. We had no own or allied vessels in the area at this point in time, and a P3 Orion was inserted to investigate the observation. Orion was in place a little before 17.30 and conducted search in the area. No findings were made, and the Orion returned towards the home base on the island of Andøya after approximately five hours of search. We are now in a phase where we review all of the collected material, ” says spokesperson Brynjar Stordal at FOH.

To the an.now he says moreover, that they regularly receive messages about the activity. Sometimes it is our own or allied vessels in the area the message is coming from.

- This is the message we found so trustworthy that we chose an Orion surveillance aircraft.

the Observation was also made far into the Vestfjord. If it concerns a Russian submarine, this would have been a serious violation of Norwegian waters.

Russian submarine

Aldrimer.en write further that they know that the FOH worked out from the assumption that the observation could be of the Russian submarine “Podmoskovye”. It should, according to the Russian sources have left the Archangel at 12.30-the time Saturday.

They write further that the time does not correspond with the observation of the submarine in Norway the same day. However, it is the common that official Russian sources state the wrong time stamp. This is to complicate the locality of the submarines.

“Podmoskovye” is a submarine of the Delta IV-class, is 167 meters long and is built in 1986. Previously called the K-64 and had ballistic missiles on board. Now it is reconstructed and serves as “mother ships” for an unknown number of miniubåter.