The U.S. military mobilized naval and air assets to monitor the passing Russian navy fleet, which the Pentagon said did not pose a security threat.
American military planes built for anti-submarine warfare flew back-to-back sorties around Florida on Tuesday as a Russian navy flotilla sailed past the East Coast of the United States.A time-lapse of aircraft data from the website Flightradar24 showed more than half-a-dozen U.S. Navy P-8A Poseidons—known as 'submarine hunters'—converging on the Sunshine State.Some loitered outside U.S.
'Russia's deployments are part of routine naval activity, and we are not concerned by Russia's deployments, which pose no direct threat to the United States,' the spokesperson added.The four vessels calling on Havana this week include the Yasen-M-class submarine Kazan, the frigate Admiral Gorshkov, the replenishment tanker Academic Pashin and the tug boat Nikolay Chiker—all in service with the Russian navy's Northern Fleet.
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