Russia's submarine fleet has a 'primary goal' of 'delivering strategic nuclear strikes against the U.S.,' according to one expert.
Russia's Black Sea fleet, with its bases at the Crimean port of Sevastopol and in the southern Russian city of Novorossiysk, has played a greater part in the war effort so far. Submarines have been used to launch land-attack cruise missiles such as the Kalibrs, but Russia's conventionally-powered submarines lurking in the Black Sea still pose problems for NATO activity in the Black Sea and shipping routes, Childs noted.
Sustaining the development of advanced submarines will therefore become increasingly difficult"when they don't have the raw materials, they can't sustain the industrial base, they don't have the manpower—because that manpower is going into fighting the war [in Ukraine]," Foggo said. Russian submarines at the Russian naval base in the Syrian Mediterranean port of Tartus on September 26, 2019. Submarines have not played a major role in the Ukraine war, but have nonetheless operated globally during the ongoing conflict."Submarines are the most expensive ticket item in Russia's military budget and have no obvious utility in this war—so Russia compensates and projects power through acceptance of greater risk," Herd said.
But there are two possible scenarios presented by experts for the future of Russia's submarine fleet.
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