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Re: u-boat Lake Ontario???
Posted by: Bruce Boyer ()
Date: April 12, 2016 08:04PM

The article refers to a UX791 ( of which I cannot find any listing) nor can I find any records of a U-Boat being sent on such a mission and the photograph shows what appears to be a Soviet Submarine a November class.

For those that know, the US Navy had well developed plans to deploy SSBNs in the Great Lakes as they would be both undetectable and hence not have to be able to dive as deep or as fast as an SSBN that operates where Soviets could find it and sink it. The ultimate hidden ICBM launcher. As they could be slow and not deep diving they would be a lot cheaper to build and operate, would not even need nuclear propulsion....

If the Soviets could get submarines into the Great Lakes, they could easily sink such SSBs and there would be no ASW assets deployed in the Lakes to hunt them down.

This looks as though the Soviets sent a SS to probe the entryway and it was lost, many such probing operations occurred in Sweden, Norway and Denmark.

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u-boat Lake Ontario??? Dan 09/16/2002 06:00PM
Re: u-boat Lake Ontario??? Rainer Bruns 09/16/2002 06:10PM
Re: u-boat Lake Ontario??? Steve Cooper 09/17/2002 02:00PM
Re: u-boat Lake Ontario??? Rainer Bruns 09/17/2002 02:57PM
Re: u-boat Lake Ontario??? Joe Johnson 04/01/2016 12:59AM
Re: u-boat Lake Ontario??? Joe Johnson 04/01/2016 12:53AM
Re: u-boat Lake Ontario??? Bill forsythe 09/17/2002 07:47AM
Re: u-boat Lake Ontario??? Dan 09/17/2002 10:48AM
Re: u-boat Lake Ontario??? Johannes 09/17/2002 11:45AM
Re: u-boat Lake Ontario??? Bill forsythe 09/18/2002 08:18AM
Re: u-boat Lake Ontario??? Nathan M. Greenfield 09/18/2002 09:57AM
Re: u-boat Lake Ontario??? RD White 11/13/2012 02:02AM
Re: u-boat Lake Ontario??? Joe Johnson 04/01/2016 02:09AM
Re: u-boat Lake Ontario??? Bruce Boyer 04/12/2016 08:04PM
Re: u-boat Lake Ontario??? Joe Johnson 04/01/2016 01:31AM
Re: u-boat Lake Ontario??? Kaleut Nemo 09/19/2002 03:36AM
Re: u-boat Lake Ontario??? Leutnant Nemo 09/19/2002 03:46AM
Re: u-boat Lake Ontario??? Bill forsythe 09/19/2002 09:28AM
Re: u-boat Lake Ontario??? Nathan M. Greenfield 09/20/2002 09:37AM
Opps, '59 Nathan M. Greenfield 09/20/2002 09:43AM
Re: Opps, '59 Bill forsythe 09/20/2002 01:49PM
Re: Opps, '59 Steve Cooper 09/20/2002 09:59PM
Re: Opps, '59 J.T. McDaniel 09/20/2002 10:27PM
Re: Opps, '59 chris lee 09/29/2002 09:47AM
Re: UC-97 RD White 11/13/2012 02:08AM


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