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That point of the baltics in 60 hours. what else happened? was poland taken over as well? what did the war games show russia could do? >> well, to run the counter offensive, to take back the baltics, we had come in through poland. but we had to fight our way back in to europe because obviously we were at war with russia and were dealing with attack submarines. and dealing with cyber warfare in our country and dealing with arrival airfields and arrival ports severely damaged by their air campaign...

Called a very cold war. here in the arctic, where temperatures hover around negative 20 degrees, the u.s. navy is conducting three weeks of drills, with a sharp eye on nearby russia. theyve set up camp on an ice flow 160 miles away from land. but the real action is underwater. so here it is, the "uss pasadena" has just come up there the arctic ice. you can see sort of the front of it right there and this part is coming up all the way through the ice. thats our ride. the "pasadena" is one of two ...

The latest news and information from around the world with Fredricka Whitfield.

The Navy expects to buy two Virginia-class submarines per year and is looking to increase its capacity to build a third submarine each year.

Virginia-class submarines can even be used to deliver special operations forces support or participate in mine warfare roles.

Although the stealthy and heavily armed Seawolf allows it to dodge sonar, it cannot avoid its hefty price tag. 

A diesel submarine may also run more quietly than a nuclear submarine by turning off its engines and running on batteries—but only for a very short amount of time.

"What I would say as well, is that dealing with this immediate situation is of course, an absolute priority, but the free world," Liz Truss said, "also needs to work together to reduce economic dependence on Russia, to put in place the agreements that help countries have alternatives in terms of trade and investment."

The Tu-142 and other Russian long-range warplanes flew several missions in  2020 in part in order to keep tabs on NATO submarines.

The Navy's next-generation submarine, known as SSN(X), is expected to be larger than the Virginia class, and still be the stealthiest nuclear submarine ever put to sea.