Skipper Lars Jørgen Kippernes from Averøy says to TV 2 that he is sure that he and the crew of fiskebåten “Little brother” was about to become pure in the lower of a Russian submarine in Norwegian waters of the Vestfjord Saturday.
The Russian embassy in Oslo, norway replies that this is a fun story, and uses the phrase “ghostbusters”, or “sims”.
“Somebody saw something somewhere. No evidence, no pictures, but everyone was sure that it was a Russian submarine. What makes you so sure? It may be the upcoming approval of the military budget and the development plan for the armed forces? But to the practical, before you start to search for the Russian submarine, it will be a good idea to do some work with the Orion-effectiveness,” writes Maxim Gurov, presseattache at The Russian embassy to the TV 2, with clear reference to the fact that it took four hours before the Armed forces got sent an Orion aircraft for the search.
This is a very unusual tone in an official mail from The Russian embassy in Oslo, ” says TV 2′s Russia-expert Øystein Bogen.
It has a sour sarcasm and an attempt to fill some kind of conspiracy theory that some in the military have anything to gain from pretending there is a Russian submarine. He denies the never that it was a Russian submarine there, but focus instead on the emergency preparedness and Orion aircraft.
May be under water in three months
Bogen think that if it was in fact a Russian submarine in the Norwegian fiskefartøyet met, it was there to be seen, or possibly that it had a problem that forced it to the surface.
– These submarines can operate under water for three months at a stretch without having to go up to the surface if they want to. With their sonars they were very confident in what was around when they came up to the surface, ” says Bogen.
He is quite sure that the Defense chose to put the Orion fly on the wings because they could not rule out that it was actually a Russian submarine inside Norwegian waters.
The strongest indisiet is that they chose to put a plane on the wings. I want to believe that they probably have checked what they knew about the Russian ubåtenes positions at this time before the decision was taken, ” he says.
Defense: – happy
It took just over four hours from an Orion aircraft was scramblet from Andøya air station to overvåkingsflyet was in the air. There was only one machine available, and the analysts at the Forvarets operational headquarters had to guess as to whether it is possible, the submarine had a southbound or the northbound course, type aldrimer.no.
– When we choose to get out a Orion so are we depending on the that we have available personnel. They were available at the time and came out and got carried out a search. We are very happy that we got to this time, ” says Brynjar Stordal, a Spokesperson at the defense operational headquarters to TV 2.
– Serious incident
The Russian submarine “Podmoskovye” is 167 meters long and built in 1986. Previously called the K-64 and had ballistic missiles on board.
Now is the rebuilt and functioning as “mother ships” for an unknown number of miniubåter, according to aldrimer.no.
– If it is to be a foreign submarine in Norwegian waters, so it is serious, and a very desirable event, says Stordal.
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