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An undetected nuclear submarine in the Gulf of Mexico confirms warnings from U.S. officials that the U.S. anti-submarine warfare capability is deficient.

This at a time when the Obama administration plans to cut defense spending by $487 billion over the next decade.

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A Russian Akula-class nuclear attack submarine sailed undetected in the Gulf of Mexico for weeks, and was only discovered after it left. The incident will come as an embarrassment to the US Navy, which is tasked with the detection and tracking of foreign submarines.

Undersea sensors and satellites are used to locate and track them, however in this incident the submarine was only detected after it had left US waters.

The incident has also highlighted deficiencies in the US anti-submarine warfare capabilities as well as the patrol of littoral waters, an area that has seen substantial investment in recent years.

2018
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Our submarines, too, might have surfaced suddenly some place in the Gulf of Mexico to shock America, Korotchenko said. We have the corresponding forces of our submarine fleet there. We do not do that for the simple reason our purpose is not to show off in such a silly way, but to cope with the assigned tasks. He warned that attempts at intimidating Russia were "useless and senseless"

2020

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The U.S. Navy has spent weeks trawling the North Atlantic in the hunt for a deadly Russian submarine that was known to have deployed into the waters off the East Coast of the United States.

The Project 885 Yasen class guided missile submarine Severodvinsk is built from the very latest in Russian technology and was thought to be just a few hundred miles away from the North American coastline in the fall of 2019.

Such was the worry of the U.S. military, the search involved a large number of Navy submarines, ships, and maritime patrol aircraft, all of which proved fruitless after the sub remained undetected throughout. News of the essentially failed mission comes as U.S. Sailors have been warned to be on alert as they sail to and from ports along the Eastern seaboard and to no longer assume the Atlantic Ocean is a 'safe haven'.

'We don't have to look hard to see that the world is only getting more complicated... the Atlantic Ocean is a battle space that can't be ignored.'

'We are seeing an ever-increasing number of Russian submarines deploy in the Atlantic. And these submarines are more capable than ever, deploying for longer periods of time with more lethal weapons systems.'

The stark warning came just weeks after reports that a Russian spy ship was lurking in waters off the East Coast and operating in an unsafe manner.

2022

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Russian nuclear submarine armed with 'doomsday' weapon disappears from Arctic harbor: report
Putin's Belgorod submarine is said to be capable of creating a 1,600-ft 'radioactive tsunami'

Belgorod's location remains publicly unknown as of Monday, a situation that is not particularly surprising to Koffler. Russian submarines have some of the best stealth capabilities in the world and have even entered U.S. waters undetected in the past, according to Koffler.

There have been times when Russian nuclear-powered attack submarines, armed with long-range cruise missiles, operated undetected for weeks close to U.S. shores," Koffler told Fox News Digital.