Russian Sierra off Georgia Coast?
The Free Beacon reports (so take with a metric ton of salt) that a Russian Sierra II
(Project 945.A – Кондор/Kondor) class SSN (nuclear attack sub) was spotted 200-miles off of Kings Bay, GA recently. Kings Bay by the way is where the USN keeps a large part of its boomer fleet (SSBNs)
The Sierra is a 9100-ton beast that is outfitted with eight torpedo tubes that can carry (besides torpedoes) a number of SS-N-21 SLCMs with 200 kt nuclear warheads, as well as SS-N-16 anti-submarine SUBROC type missiles with a 200 kt 200 kt nuclear depth charge.
Thats always comforting to have right off the US Coast. Bring on Cold War II.
Anybody seen one of these hanging around Georgia?
Scary stuff, I was thinking Putan was flexing his guns before the electionton mess with us.