Russian Threat To Undersea Cables & Pipelines Explained
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- Опубліковано 27 жов 2022
- Russian Navy 'Seabed Warfare' capabilities explained by an Independent Defense Analyst. Unscripted and unedited as usual.
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I have watched most of your video's and for "unscripted" you do an outstanding job. I'm just a retired firefighter so I have to take all your information at face value because I have nothing to judge it against. I throughly enjoy your presentations and appreciate the time and effort you put into it.
Wow, thanks
@@HISuttonCovertShores What conspiracy theories? We know it was Biden and it was well done -> ua-cam.com/users/shorts3uUol-YStyg
@@HISuttonCovertShores You missed the underwater power cables, such as the Nemo link HDVC connection between the UK and Belgium.
@E Van why is reddit to blame for that....?
@@HISuttonCovertShores yeah man, your content is great.
I was born and raised in sweden, I cant tell you how often we would see stories in the news about probable soviet/russian underwater incursions. Im sure everyone is familiar with the grounded sub in oct 81 but i dont think people understand how scared we were, someone was able to get close enough to the sub and scan it for signs of radioactivity and of course the soviets had a nuclear armed torpedo on board. Terrifying to say the least. The last incident I remember was somewhere between 2011-2013 when an emergency signal was thought to be coming from an underwater contact in the archipelago off the east coast of sweden. Nothing was ever found.
You do understand a lot of those news are propaganda designed to scare you into voting / backing certain party / policy right? I am from Taiwan and we used to have bi-annual or even more frequent air raid drills. Nearly 30 years on I now know there were never any intend nor capability from mainland China to bomb Taiwan but those in power used those drills to get support for their pro-independence policy.
Same situation in the US and maybe Sweden as well. Every election candidates accuse each other of being agent of Russia / China. Do you really think Obama, Hillary, Trump, Biden is actually taking money or is Russian / Chinese?
Russia was looking for any excuse to not supply Europe with gas this winter, they are trying to scare EUrope out of supporting Ukraine but it wont work, just another mis calculation by them, you can see all the people trying to peddle the narrative that the west did this in some weird act of self sabotage.
@@silentone6411 cool story bro
Of course they had nuclear weapons on board. That's their role.
Turned out to be sardines relieving air from their swim bladders in large schools, the Norwegians wrongly thought for years and years this was the sound of a submarine.
I participated in CSG'21 with the Americans last year, we had one of the Yantars trailing the task force just over the horizon the whole time. Our ship was the one tasked with running them off a couple of times, which was pretty neat. They had us close up action stations for exercise the first time, but it was just a bridge/Ops evolution for the others.
Very informative and interesting video, thanks for sharing.
Sounds fun, thanks
There's only one Yantar, isn't there?
I can listen to a real expert speaking on just about any subject and find it interesting - the fact that subs are a particular interest of mine makes your videos irresistible! Also having an unscripted discussion leads to some fascinating diversions and asides that wouldn't exist otherwise. Thanks for taking the time to do this, much appreciated.
I was working in Shetland at the time the subsea cables went down, and it's not often this happens but when France had the same problems too not looking good plus Russia had a spy ship in the same place the cables went down so the royal navy side and was a submarine off the east coast of Shetland Thursday morning it happened keep up with the good work 🇬🇧
Your unscripted and unedited videos are delivered better than most youtuber's scripted ones
Well, thank you, Mr Sutton. Your videos are extremely interesting, highly informative and educational.
Glad you like them!
H.I. Sutton posts new content and I can't help but drop everything and watch. I'd argue that nobody does it better - many thanks for another quite informative piece.
Wow, thanks!
The flagship of the Russian Black Sea fleet, the "Moskwa", has an incredible seabed capability. It has been operating there now for several months without surfacing a single time.
Right, how surprising a 1980's ship being hit and knocked out by several modern weapons systems... Sort of like a Chinook helicopter full of SEALS and Air Force being put in the dumpster by a couple 1970's RPG's... You are very clever and most likely highly intelligent...
@@roberterdei8627 Salty, are we?
@@roberterdei8627the moscova was upgraded and certainly expected to be able to launch anti missile missiles at incoming ones.
I've no idea what happened on board Exactly but there's no reasonable excuse for it happening
@@erikcrouch7881 Not at all, I just think it's interesting that all the degenerates come out of the woodwork to insult the lives (and deaths) of fighting men, because they happen to be on the other side of the propaganda wall.
@@sparkzbarca How many decades ago was it upgraded again..? Following this logic, the same could be said for HMS Sheffield, or SR71 Blackbird or the entirety of the Vietnam war, trash logic is trash...
That pen for the Beluga Whales seems too small -- by my measure using Google Earth it's less than 16m across or about 50 feet. I would have expected something more like 100m. Not saying it isn't a Beluga pen, just that it seem really small for that purpose.
Thank you very much Mr Sutton. I hope we can see you in a live stream with the channel "Military and History". It's always nice to hear your voice and share your knowledge.
FWIW, I humbly implore you sir...PLEASE continue making your superb presentations in the 'unscripted' manner --- It
is refreshingly conversational while still cogently organized and yet delightfully free of exraneous fluff and chatter.
I have learned much from your diligent efforts..Thanks!,
hard to find similar content on youtube! your contribution to the platform is both novel, unique in its depth and interesting!
Just discovered your page and man this is a gold mine of information.
Thx a lot, interesting background info ! Btw no need to apologize for the “unscripted “ format…. you do what you feel like doing and we are happy with the infos we get !
Please feel free to make many more videos as frequently as possible. Thank you for the fantastic content.
Excellent material on relatively unknown subject. Thank you very much for posting!
In August 2000, the Kursk a Russian sub sank in the Barents Sea. The Russians refused help from the Royal Navy and attempted to save the crew using their own deep sea rescue subs. But because their equipment was so old and poorly maintained, they failed to rescue the men who were still alive. That was more than 20 years ago. Maintenance issues have only deteriorated in the Russian navy.
Great video as always! Thanks for the content and taking the time to point out caveats to the information you provide.
Long awaited post, thankyou.
Impressed, well done sir, informative, interesting and a distinct lack of drama or nonsense. Subscribed 👍
This channel was a really great find. Thanks for doing these vids.
It is al always a glory day when you see a new HI Sutton video is uploaded!
Have been looking forward to another of your videos Mr. Sutton. 😊
Glad to hear it
Don't apologize for the voice, you just sound like you've been at sea. Great video as always, thank you for the effort. Honestly though your voice sounds fine to me.
A really excellent yet also concise, relevant and extremely interesting briefing. Thank you mate I really enjoyed this one, the nord steam sabotages and submarine tech in general fascinates me so this was a treat. I’ll probably rewatch it this evening with a whisky on the rocks, cheers
Cheers!
would be interesting to see what the USA can do ...
We've already seen it, ask the Germans...
I was about to mention the same as the original poster. I won't 😂
I've seen several media channels claim that only Russia could have done it. That every country in the world have the capability is never mentioned (does however require access to the area).
A retired Swedish military diver (he was the first to vaulantary go into the water when Estonia started sinking) said that the pipe was to large/wide to get such a clean cut with any equipment that can be bought for any amount of money. The explosives used could have been planted by anyone but only one country have the knowledge needed to build the things.
Spoiler: it wasn't Russia or any other country that isn't situated in Northern America (don't blame Canada!).
Probably at least as much as the russians can
Nice conspiracy theory.
Logic would say it was the Americans. Either they did it themselves or had one if their proxies do it (England). 🕵️♂️👨🏫👨⚖️
“Omg is that a war dolphin” - me 22 minutes ago.
I have been watching your channel for sometime. I come out every time learning new things. Thanks for Sharing. My favourite submarine move is das boat. Second is u571.
Absolutely peerless channel for more niche submersible knowledge.
Very cool vid...I did IUSS during my time in the Navy and "worked" with some of those.
Just phenomenal work, as always!
Exactly what I was waiting for. Thanks 😊
Happy to help!
Thank you for staying away from the who did what and when and why debate. But it is nice to hear an informative and interesting discussion about Russian capabilities under the sea.
There is no "debate" the US blew up Nordstream
Your thoughts on the pipeline attacks will be of great interest.
I hope you decide to do a video on that subject.
Plus one on that. Of course if you are not outside of your comfort zone when it come to theory crafting on that particular subject.
He's pretty biased towards NATO, I doubt he will seriously touch that subject.
@@albertoamoruso7711 ooohh wouldn’t that be nice…we can dream…
We all Know who did it, and HI Sutton knows who did it, but he won’t say, nobody will speak about it, especially if it’s not the main narrative being told.
@@paulroustan3643Interesting. I personally don't know who did it for sure. Nor anyone who I have discussed this before. I of course have a very strong suspicion of who did it but this is not by any means the same of knowing who did it. We might never find out as the information could be classified and no released within our lifetimes.
Excellent information... Cant wait for your next video!!
Awesome, thank you!
Amazing brief as always, by far the best youtuber duding this kind of free lance intel!!!!!!
WELL DONE! Precise, succinct, informative. Will be watching for more. Do you have any analytic interest in rapid insertion/ reactiin/ response forces either for littoral or deep area control functions?
The Russian Navy has certainly invested heavily in undersea warfare. They have even gone so far as to develop an under water nuclear plant designed to power their version of the American SOSUS system. The United States has no equivalent.
Neither do the Russians. They "have" this system the same way they "have" the SU-57. Four were built, one crashed, the surviving three are used in public display flights but so woefully undertrained and -equipped they cancelled the show because of the Ukrainian anti air threat.
@@Argosh there are at least 10 flying prototypes (some converted to serial standard) + 6 serially produced and delivered machines... and they keep building them
@@deanboy2416 and that is relevant because...?
The Russians themselves claim the numbers I mentioned.
To drive the point home: There are over 800 F-35, and almost 200 F-22.
The US has 5th generation fighters. The Russians "have" "5th generation" fighters.
@@Argosh the numbers you mentioned are outdated by about 3 years.
Currently there are no F-35 that meet the original 2001 spec. On top of that 50% of them are currently grounded for an unknown amount of time.
Of the 200 Raptors that were built, only 130 remain operational on a good day, and the combat readiness rate decreases every year.
as for relevance... you are the one who brought it up in the first place. I could bring up hypersonics with the same effect. The Russians have them, use them, and the US does not, and never had them. Now what?
@@deanboy2416 The US have had hypersonic rockets since t th hey captured V2 rockets after WWII.
Hypersonic just means it is capable of M5 flight or faster
Thank you for another very informative, very competent video explanation.
I could actually hear you smile for the 'whisky on the rocks' line.
2:19
HI Sutton: sips Whiskey on the rocks
Love this stuff, no apologies needed. You're the man.
Finally a quality source of information from someone whose passionate about the topic they're discussing.
Excellent and Insightful video, will give this channel a follow
Welcome aboard!
Great content - you got yourself a new sub 👌🏾👌🏾👌🏾
Great video and fantastic analysis. Thanks! 👍
As a former USN submariner, I will say that this video is concise, and is well done. Nice effort on the Nordstream Hot potato topic. The 2 nations involved with that issue, will likely reap their reward, but the public will unfortunately be lead to miss label those events, as anything but retribution.
This is industrial terrorism and nothing more.
Thank you for your service, it’s been my dream since a child to be a submariner but I unfortunately have a illness that instantly disqualifies me from service :/
Could you elaborate on that topic or more specifically your opinion on it? A few countries had motives to do it but I'm just not knowledgable enough to actually point a finger myself.
The "GUGI" divers were using Kirby Morgan dive helmets. Those are definitely American. Ans considered the gold standard for deep surface supported diving including saturation diving.
Nah, definitely gucci 😂
Was the Yantar the Russian ship that spent some time sitting on a communication cable off the Irish coast?
yes, among other places
Great video and wouldn’t have a clue if it was unscripted or not! Thanks for sharing your knowledge
Thank you so much for this real insight, your content is so precise and founded. I have long stated that the new tech is the old tech done better, it is why TS content needs to be transferred safe-hand even today Polly's.
Thank you Sutton
Very interesting topic, thank you for the video!
Another excellent and interesting video. Ta.👍
Very interesting subject. Thanks for the insightful video.
Glad it was helpful!
Excellent analysis!
Very informative. Thanks very much
We need information on this topic.
Cheers! top notch video again.
That was very informative. Thank you for sharing your expertise on the subject matter.
Oh and I think you would very much enjoy the books of Jan Guillou. Especially the third one. 😉. I believe there are English translations available. (Original is Swedish.)
I was hoping that you would have mentioned the “Glomar Explorer “ Howard Hughes ‘ sub picker upper !!
losharik is nuclear powered? what kind of reactor does it have?
solid content, you should get well payed for it.
Very great explanation. If i may ask, would you like to enable auto captions on your videos? I am not a native speaker, so sometimes i need caption to understand the topics better. Thank you in advance
These are on now. I think the Google algorithm needs some time after the video is uploaded to process it and start displaying the auto captions. I've found this delay on other channels too - can be several hours.
Great video!
Very interesting and informative.
This is exactly what I wanted to watch. Been waiting.
Great analysis!
Red October: "Perhaps in the future the technology for a more thourough investigation will be made available" intensifies
Very timely.
great job Sir
Excellent video!
Great info.
👍👍👍👊😎
Thanks 👍
Another excellent video thank you
Glad you enjoyed it
Might the sea floor capabilities of Belgorod be intended for potential recovery of Poseidon that are launched but aborted mission and not sent to target or test fired or malfunctioned?
Interesting thought although I don't think so. Other Poseidon-carrying submarines do not have this capability.
I still think Poseidon is cover for adding some kinda of seabed warfare to more subs.
Deam on it doesnt exist
@@Highendaudio1 Poseidon? you got anything to back that claim up?
@@Saberjet1950 haha, please. Don't be as gullible even the Russian Submariners laugh at this. Your clearly a gamer like Sutton. who started this whole story. Sutton. Who's never been on a submarine in his life Sutton, you tell me where the submarine keeps it and how it fires it if it was real. Thats another thing. You don't understand water ram discharge do you? This submarine is a bog standard SSGN. With non of this BS. The CIA and MI5 confirmed this ages ago. Nuclear powered weapon haha. 😂
Another interesting video. In some respects, I'm just comfortable with nuclear subs, living in Scotland, Faslane, etc., but I'm old enough to have been "encouraged", as a school pupil, to get immediately off Holy Loch by the USN/USMC in 1982 as our school sailing lesson got too close. By their measure. Dunoon at that time, was "little America".
You might be right BUT used so many local terms and shorts that i have no idea what you said (I'm a Swede you don't want to use such local shorts and terms!!!).
I could obviously Google everything but doesn't have the time to find the "right" answer that doesn't contradict another answer.
Remember that not everyone have your experience and local knowledge!
The key things about the nuclear submarine bases in Scotland is their location close to where masses of people live. Anything blowing up or releasing radiation would do so up wind of both nearby Glasgow and the wider Central Belt, a densely populated zone running eastwards to Edinburgh, only about 50 miles away.
This is still a live issue as one of the bases, Faslane is still operating and is home of the Royal Navy's nuclear submarine fleet, including both the Trident missile subs and the hunter killers. Faslane is located on a deep inlet called Gare Loch on the north side of where the wide river Clyde flows down to the sea. It is close to Helensburgh, an upmarket suburb of Glasgow.
Also on the north side of the Clyde, but two lochs further along towards the sea is Holy Loch, a small, deep inlet. This is where the US based its nuclear subs in Scotland during the Cold War. It closed in 1992. The town of Dunoon is close by.
I can remember as a child seeing submarines passing by when visiting relatives in Helensburgh. Presumably these were British subs. It's a live political issue now because Faslane is a major base and the British nuclear deterrent is based there. Any future independent Scottish government might want this big potential target and hazard relocated a bit further away from where most of the Scots people live. Somewhere in England perhaps!
As always top notch!
It would be nice to compare the size with the NR-1
thank you for worldly information about a world I know nothing about.
Another fine chat, thank you very much.
How do they deploy the marine mammals, what kind of "range" can they be considered to operate in?
Not very long ranged, so Ru dolphins and I expect seals get carried in a small boat, like a RIB. Belugas would be harder but they do somehow
@@HISuttonCovertShores Fascinating. Thank you for your time and the insight
He has another video worth checking out, about Russian use of marine mammals in a naval context generally (rather than specifically for seabed warfare).
Just make sure to remember: _It's very dangerous to give a dolphin the ability to kill_
Actually, I'm wondering what use they put these animals to for seabed warfare. I imagine they'd be good at detecting/locating cables, etc so the submersibles can get to work quickly and stealthily.
Fascinating, thank you 👍
5:54 GUGI GANG GUGI GANG GUGI GANG GUGI GANG
Sorry, couldn't help it.
Is there any one place where you can get a current overview of all the submarines in service in the world?
Jane's ? Or google and persistance.
Nice work, thanks. Whiskey on the rocks, that's a good one.
It would be nice if you could do more UA-cam content like this - it's become really really hard to dicpher content and i've been following you long before this mess began so at least you're a reliable OSINT source. Surely you can increase the frequency of these vids? lot's of objective value away from the bs online.
Oh, hell yeah! Fresh Sutton!
The us started this stuff with the sosus line and tapping Russian cables and listening to military communications
I wonder if Russian (and previously Soviet) RTG tech has continued for long duration payload deployments. Kinda like the US tap in operation Ivy Bells but more modern. Just gave most major undersea pipelines and cables “mined” for a better word awaiting a signal. Would explain the cat and mouse in the North Sea
There are pictures of a NATO "lost" selfpropelled mine that Russians found sitting beside the Nord Stream pipeline...Needless to say it would be good practice to inspect all the pipelines, who knows what other lost munitions one can find.
@@victorzvyagintsev1325 Lol, are you talking about the mine in 2015, which Sweden removed (working together with Gazprom) and neither West nor Russia commented on further?
Yet in 2022, after invading Ukraine, Gazprom suddenly claims it was a western mine, right. Talk about misinformation ;)
@@termitreter6545 Gazprom released photos of the mine, and it is indeed a very rare NATO munition. Wiki claims only 25 made.
@@victorzvyagintsev1325 Ive actually looked it up and LOL, this is so obviously bullshit:
So they claims its a SeaFox. But you know whats funny? A SeaFox isnt a munition, its actually a mine disposal vehicle.
That thing is completely useless for sabotaging pipe lines.
The idea that it was there to attack the pipeline is pure propaganda, and youve fallen for it. Congratulations.
@@termitreter6545 Its a 1.4 kg shaped charge munition. You can call it a godzilla backscratcher if you want, it will still be a shaped charge munition. Set one off on the pipeline and the overpressure from the pipe will do the rest.
Would you please add English subtitle? 😬
What an awesome video. I love learning about this. Good work.
Glad you enjoyed it!
Good info thanks
UNfourtunately it is us, US and US Navy that opened this front of seabed warfare . Started when CIA retreived K-129 (or parts of it) from Pacific Ocean floor. Then Halibut and later USS Parche conducted Soviet underwater cable tapping during 1970's. US deployed special research submarine NR-1 for seabed recon.
I would love to learn more about what the beluga’s do. Is there evidence of how they have been effective currently?
Not exactly what you've asked, but he has a video here ua-cam.com/video/elWHlZI5wSA/v-deo.html for dolphin work with the russian navy
Assuming Russians covertly target a cable for SIGINT how do they exfiltrate the intellegence?
Is that "Twitch chat" I hear you say right at the start of the video, or is it just wishful thinking on my part?
Edit: ah, bummer. It's more likely a leftover from a very brief first take, with you saying "to a chat" in quick manner.
~Leans over and whispers loudly~ *_"I THINK THEYRE SPYING"_*
Every country in the world will have these capabilities, mystery whodunnit?
I was waiting for an official analysis of the Nordstream pipeline sabotage but I guess your not going to get into it. I can understand why but you are the authority on this kind of warfare and as you correctly stated have been working on the issue of seabed warfare technology for many years. I value your analysis a lot and, hopefully, you will get into an analysis of Nordstream in a future video. Thanks H.I. Sutton!
Let’s go baby, new underwater tin can video
"I don't subscribe to conspiracy theories" seems to imply that conspiracies don't happen or all conspiracies are already public. That seems highly unlikely to me, especially considering the number of real conspiracies which have come to light over the decades.