The Russian Kilo II class submarine armed with cruise missilesWHAT It was caught south of the Balearic Islands on October 11, when I was sailing with him naval tug Sergei Balkis located again at Spanish Navy close to the coast of Galicia y escorted out of Spanish territorial waters while pursuing his course in Baltic Seareported on Defense Staff.
The same sources detail that after warning from Portugal the high altitude patrolman Sentinel belongs to the Navy Maritime Action Forcebased on Ferrol Arsenal, He set sail on the afternoon of October 15, to search, intercept y to listen in the battle units, heading for the port Baltic based.
Despite the severe weather conditions Although the lack of visibility points to the Defense Staff, the Russian ships could be intercepted in the afternoon of October 17 near the border of Portugalmoment from which the ship Sentinel He continued his defeat by monitoring the submarine and the tugboat on the northern border of the Exclusive Economic Zone of Spain later returned to the base of Ferrol on the 18th.
the fleet reveals that your communication is the real name of the Russian submarine of war until now called the Kilo I class according to the generic nomenclature of I’LL TAKE IT. About this Krasnodarbelongs to the Black Sea Fleet y one of the most modern submarines of the Russian navyDENOMINATIONAL “black hole” of the US Navy for this ability to disappear with apparent ease from enemy radars and sonar.
Krasnodar, one of the jewels of the Russian Black Sea Fleet
The Krasnodar it is a Third generation Kilo class submarine that is it launched in 2019 with a high level of acoustic invisibility underwater speed of 20 knots, autonomous navigation of up to 45 days, the crew of more than 50 sailors at war, and able to make dives 300 meters deep. Like its predecessors, it is equipped with a diesel and electric propulsion engine and armed with Kalibr attack missiles, and cruise missiles on high accuracy for shooting surface targets and ground targets.
the Spanish Navy the submarine was intercepted for the first time on October 11 by Krasnodar and its auxiliary tug, WHEN They sailed south to Ibiza. The meeting took place four days after the Hamas attacked on Israel and in the context of Russia’s invasion of Ukraine when the Spanish ship Lightning was located interceptor to two Russian warships. And since then I listened to the two ships to the outside of the territorial waters, when the two ships entered Portuguese waters.
