F.P. Report
MOSCOW: The submarine Rostov-on-Don will advance into the eastern Mediterranean in its submerged location after passing Gibraltar. In the Mediterranean Squadron, it will reinstate the same-type submarine, reported by news agencies.
It should be noted that the Project 636.3 diesel-electric submarine Rostov-on-Don that is making an inter-fleet transit after its first planned repairs will join the Russian Navy’s standing taskforce in the Mediterranean Sea, adding that on Friday when Russia is celebrating Submariner Day, actually all the Black Sea Fleet’s Project 636.3 submarines are on combat watch.
Mentioning the incident when NATO reconnaissance systems ‘lost’ sight of a sub after it passed Gibraltar in its surface position “is hardly worth mentioning,” “It is not without reason that NATO has dubbed these submarines ‘black holes,’” the source said.
The Admiralty Shipyard in St. Petersburg in Russia’s northwest has built a series of six Project 636.3 diesel-electric submarines for the Russian Black Sea Fleet.
Underlining the fats that some of these submarines numerously delivered strikes with Kalibr-PL cruise missiles against terrorist targets in Syria while operating within the Russian Navy’s Mediterranean Squadron.
Whereas, the Soviet Navy’s 5th Mediterranean Squadron served as a trial product for the Russian Navy’s permanent Mediterranean taskforce operating at present.
The 5th operational Soviet Squadron dealt with the tasks of naval presence in the Mediterranean theater of operations during the Cold War period. Its main rival was the US Navy’s 6th Fleet. The Soviet Squadron was disbanded on December 31, 1992, a year after the disintegration of the Soviet Union.
Back in 2013, Russia begun to produce a new operational Mediterranean taskforce and Russia’s new lasting Squadron is dealing with planned and imperative combat missions arising in the Mediterranean theater of operations, including warding off threats to Russia’s national and military security.
