The American submarine emerges from the ice in the Arctic

Nuclear submarine United States Navy surfaced from under the ice in the Arctic as part of the exercises Ice Exercise 2020, taking place in the Arctic ocean and the Beaufort sea.

In a video posted on the channel, the U.S. Navy, shows how the ship breaks through the ice surface and rises above the white expanse of the Arctic.

Submarine USS Toledo (SSN-769) like Los Angeles went from the base in Connecticut to the archipelago of Franz-Joseph. On one of the Islands of the archipelago are the base of the Ministry of defence of the Russian Federation under the name "Arctic Shamrock", which is a place of a dislocation of divisions of antiaircraft defense of the Northern fleet.

Exercises IceX-2020, organized by the Ministry of defense, will last for three weeks. The main purpose of the American of the exercise — assessment of readiness for prompt action in the Arctic.

USS Toledo was first launched in 1993. In July 2009, during a routine inspection in the case of a submarine found a couple of cracks. The American military-industrial company Northrop Grumman has repaired the damage. The company has entered into a multimillion-dollar contract with the U.S. Navy for maintenance of submarines.

Translated by «Yandex.Translator»