Red Subs Ahoy

Russia's long-range submarines are routinely feeling out the U.S.'s antisubmarine defense and detection networks well within missile range of Atlantic coast cities. The no-nonsense evidence of Russian penetration, as presented by the Navy to the House Armed Services Committee, is a remarkable batch of photographs of Russian W class and other class submarines on the surface near Cape Hatteras, N.C., Narragansett Bay, R.I. and more generally "in Atlantic waters." Russia's long-range submarines--perhaps about half of the 500-sub Red fleet -- apparently make a point of staying outside the three-mile limit, thus exert their legal right to watch such U.S. coastal phenomena as missile tests at Cape Canaveral, thus present the U.S. Navy a legal opportunity to test antisubmarine hunter-killer techniques of sonar, radar, camera and what Navymen call "the Mark I eyeball" on real, live Red Star targets. Extent of U.S. submarine activity off Russia's shores: not known but presumably reciprocal.

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