Blown the ice. How to operate missile nuclear submarines in the Arctic
Blown the ice. How to operate missile nuclear submarines in the Arctic MOSCOW, 14 sen — news, Nikolay Protopopov. Thick pack ice over your head, pitch darkness and absolute isolation from the outside world — exactly 55 years ago, on 14 September 1963, the Soviet nuclear submarine K-178 the beginning of the first ever under-ice TRANS-Arctic transition with ballistic missiles on Board. The sailors of the Northern fleet for two weeks has been four and a half thousand miles and spent dozens of maneuvers, including the surfacing in the polynya. Upthe Ice trap From a military point of view, the Arctic has always been a strategically important region for the United States and the Soviet Union, especially in the midst of the cold war. In 1958 the American nuclear submarine “Nautilus” the first was from Alaska to Greenland, after examining the shortest routes for approach and application of missile and