USS Mississippi Virginia-class submarineMOSCOW, 13 Feb. The frigate «Marshal Shaposhnikov» worked like a sentry in the incident with an American submarine off the Kuril Islands, said Dmitry Litovkin, editor-in-chief of the Independent Military Review, in an interview with Zvezda. «It's the same if you were on guard and you see the intruder. The first “shot in the air” is the transmission in this case of information to the submarine via communication that it has violated the territorial waters of the Russian Federation and is in a dangerous position, «the expert noted. Then the Russian sailors made it clear to the American submarine that that they know exactly its location. «For this, there are special bombing installations that launch grenades, which show the submariners that they have been overlaid with, in fact, red flags and, if they do not make any decisions, the next step is a direct defeat of this object,» Litovkin added.
«They were still lucky.» What foreigners say about the US submarine in Russian watersOn the eve of the Ministry of Defense announced the discovery of a US submarine of the «Virginia» type near the Kuril Island Urup in Russian territorial waters. Her crew was given a request in Russian and English to surface, but the crew of the submarine ignored it. After that, the frigate «Marshal Shaposhnikov» used «appropriate means», and the submarine «left the territorial waters of Russia with maximum speed.» The American military attache in Moscow was subsequently handed a note of protest. The Ministry of Defense emphasized that the actions of the American side are regarded as a gross violation of international law, and recalled that Russia «reserves the right to take all possible measures in its territorial sea to ensure the security» of the state.
