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>> reporter: in an instant a two-ton, 20-foot long torpedo speeds towards an enemy submarine. target acquired and destroyed. >> stationary dive. stationary dive. >> these are just exercises, the hartford training for its primary mission, hunting and destroying enemy ships and submarines. why is it more important now to demonstrate that capability? >> this is our exclusive economic zone that our submarine force is capable of operating here as we operate along our east coast and throughout the world. it shows that we are capable of doing it and willing to come up here. >> reporter: operating und...

>> show, two, one. >> reporter: this an instant, a two-ton 20-foot-long torpedo speeds toward the target. target acquired and destroyed. these are just exercises. the hartford training for its primary mission, hunting and destroying enemy ships and submarines. >> why is it more important now to demonstrate that capability? >> this is our exclusive economic zone and our submarine force is capable of operating here just as we operate along our east coast and throughout the world. it shows we are capable of doing it and willing to come up here. >> reporter: operating under the arctic presents uni...

And shipping lanes and new paths to wage war. >> we are well aware we are in a great power competition environment. and the arctic is one piece of that. >> great power competition, talking principally about russia, but also china? >> russia and china two of great powers that are trying to catch up with us as fast as they can. >> this year these exercises called ice x are taking on new emergency. british joined in first time and u.s. submarine forces are refocusing on mission dating to the cold war. >> one of the primary missions is to be able to leverage our offensive weapon like a torpedo aga...

Library that. just nothing in the natural environment that would create anything even similar to that. >> david gallow, let's assume they don't hear any more pings. they just have the pings they got on sunday. randy said these can be heard for two plus miles. to a layman that doesn't seem like a huge amount of area to cover with sonar under the water, with side scanning sonar and underwater vehicles. is that naive to think that? >> no, it's not naive to think that. seems like a small amount. under the sea there's no gps navigation. it's pitch black. fairly hostile environment. where they are w...

They don't hear any more pings. they just have the pings they got on sunday. randy said these can be heard for two plus miles. to a layman that doesn't seem like a huge amount of area to cover with sonar under the water, with side scanning sonar and underwater vehicles. is that naive to think that? >> no, it's not naive to think that. seems like a small amount. under the sea there's no gps navigation. it's pitch black. fairly hostile environment. where they are working right now is on the north facing side of an underwater feature called the wallabe plateau. that place will be covered with lan...