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Thursday, May 29, 2008

NATO submarine "mates" with Russian rescue system

A Russian rescue system coupled with a NATO submarine for the first time on Wednesday in a joint exercise off Norway.

"We had a very important event today because for the first time ever we have the Russian rescue system, the AS-34, mate with a NATO submarine," exercise spokeswoman British Royal Navy Lt Cdr Susan Lloyd said by telephone from Norway.

"It was very successful -- the Russian rescue system opened the hatch on the Norwegian submarine, the Uthaug, and conducted the first ever transfer between a Russian escape system and a foreign submarine."

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