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Friday, April 12, 2013

Removes emblems to make faceless subs

RS Kursk |Russian navy will reintroduce Soviet practice and make it more complicated for possible enemies to identify the submarines sailing in surface position.

The huge and highly visible emblems in the front on the submarines’ towers make it too easy to figure out which of them sailing or not, believes the main command of the Russian Navy. Now, the order is given to paint over the emblems and numbers on the submarine hulls.

“The main task of a submarine sailing on combat duty is to remain unnoticed for the enemies’ anti-submarine forces and the identification signs are too visible,” says a navy sources speaking to Izvestia.

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