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Submarine hunting becomes a European sport

(BRUSSELS2) Several maritime patrol aircraft, including a French Atlantic 2, participated in a hunt of a foreign submarine off the coast west of scotland end November / early December. Dthem planesUS Navy P-3 Orion, un CP-140 dawn of the Air Force Royal of Canada et un plane radar of recognition British Raytheon Sentinel, also participated in the hunt, reports Aviation Weekoperating from Lossiemouth, the RAF base in the north of Scotland.

A suspicious periscope off Scotland

The Incident started when a periscope was seen in the waters British where others submarines would do normally surface to head towards la basis of the Royal Navy de Faslane submarines ballistic missiles. If you British Ministry of Defense n / A did not want to give details, a spokesperson of the ministry confirmed weekly specialized avoir « requested the assistance of allied forces to base of maritime patrol aircraft of the RAF Lossiemouth for a limited period ».

The Swedish precedent

In October, a submarine was also spotted in the archipelago from Stockholm, in Swedish territorial waters. Without success. The submarine had not been found. But the Swedish ministry had confirmed “ with the highest degree of certainty, to be able to confirm a violation of Swedish territorial waters” by a submarine whose " it was not possible to establish the nationality » (read here).

A foreign power... from the East?

« We do not know who is behind the . " But letme tell you this, clearly and loudly, to those who are responsible : it's totally unacceptable. We require that respect for boundary from Sweden. (...) We won't tolerate activities underwater Foreign in our waters. We will strengthen our ability to detect and identify anyone involved in activities illegal »

(NGV)

Nicolas Gros Verheyde

Chief editor of the B2 site. Graduated in European law from the University of Paris I Pantheon Sorbonne and listener to the 65th session of the IHEDN (Institut des Hautes Etudes de la Défense Nationale. Journalist since 1989, founded B2 - Bruxelles2 in 2008. EU/NATO correspondent in Brussels for Sud-Ouest (previously West-France and France-Soir).

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