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'Mysterious' cutback by nuclear sub patrols
« on: June 03, 2018, 01:48:18 pm »
'Mysterious' cutback by nuclear sub patrols
Analyst: 'It is unknown what has caused the Pacific reduction'
Published: 05/25/2018 at 9:57 PM
 

The number of Pacific patrols by America’s nuclear-armed ballistic submarines dropped “mysteriously” during 2017, according to a report from the Federation of American Scientists.

The report by Hans Kristensen explains that the nation’s fleet of subs still carry out strategic deterrent patrols – at a steady rate of about 30 per year – according to the U.S. Navy, says Joseph Farah’s G2 Bulletin.

“Yet the data shows the U.S. SSBN fleet conducted a total of 27 patrols in 2017 (five less than in 2016), the lowest number of patrols in as single year since the early-1960s when SSBN deterrent patrols began,” the organization said in a new report.

Read more at http://www.wnd.com/2018/05/mysterious-cutback-by-nuclear-sub-patrols/#QSx42bLTOg1L7i4g.99