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The K-560 Severodvinsk, a Russian Yasen-class nuclear-powered cruise-missile sub. Russian Ministry of Defense
The US and its NATO allies are increasingly worried about Russia’s improved submarine fleet, which can sail quieter and longer, and, with new submarine-launched missiles, strike farther.
A challenge is emerging as the U.S. Navy is still determining what its fleet will look like in the future. But in the Atlantic, the U.S. Navy isn’t alone in the undersea fight, according to Adm. Robert Burke, commander of U.S. Naval Forces Europe.
“What I’ll say that we have different in this theater, as opposed to my colleagues in the Indo-Pacific theater, is some extremely high-end capable allies and partners with navies that… operate just like the U.S. Navy and operate with us every day,” Burke said this month at an event hosted by the Center for Strategic and International Studies.
Submarine petty officer who died of COVID complications identified February 6 A sailor assigned to the blue crew of the ballistic missile submarine Tennessee died Thursday, Feb. 4, 2021, of COVID-related complications, the Navy said. (Navy) The U.S. Navy identified a submarine petty officer who died of COVID Thursday as Information Systems Technician (Submarines) 2nd Class Cody Andrew-Godfredson Myers. The 26-year-old Washington native was assigned to the blue crew of the Georgia-based ballistic missile submarine Tennessee and is one of two active-duty sailors to die this week after contracting the novel coronavirus. Myers had been placed in quarantine on Jan. 18 as a precaution after close contact with an individual who tested positive for COVID-19, Naval Submarine Forces said Friday in a statement.
Navy chief dies of COVID complications Chief Quartermaster Herbert Rojas died Tuesday, Feb. 2, of COVID-related complications. (Navy) A Navy chief and staff instructor at Recruit Training Command Great Lakes, Illinois, died Tuesday at his home due to COVID-19 complications, the second active-duty sailor to die this week after contracting the novel coronavirus. Chief Quartermaster Herbert Rojas, 50, of Richmond Hill, New York, had been randomly tested recently and was “asymptomatic positive” at the time, according to Lt. Cmdr. Phil Chitty, a spokesman for Naval Service Training Command. Chitty declined to say when Rojas was tested, but said it was part of “sentinel surveillance testing” for all Recruit Training Command staff members.
Submarine sailor dies of ‘COVID-related complications’ February 4
A sailor assigned to the blue crew of the ballistic missile submarine Tennessee died Thursday of COVID-related complications, the Navy said. (Navy) A Georgia-based sailor died of “COVID-related complications” Thursday, the U.S. Navy said in a statement. The sailor, assigned to the blue crew of the ballistic missile submarine Tennessee, is believed to be the 20th servicemember to die after contracting the novel coronavirus, according to U.S. Defense Department tallies. The sailor’s name is being withheld for 24 hours pending next-of-kind notification. The sailor was admitted to the hospital aboard Naval Air Station Jacksonville, Florida, Saturday, and transferred to the University of Florida Hospital Health Shands Hospital’s intensive care unit on Sunday, where the sailor tested positive for COVID-19.