![]() Malloy agreed that the presence of the Russian ship isn’t new given the state’s role in the creation of submarines. “I kept telling them, ‘You know they’ve been out there for 60 years.’ The British were out there in the 1800s.” He said the older people he works with were amused by news of the ship but the younger workers were concerned. Jim Ericson, who works at Electric Boat, was in Stonington borough on Wednesday at a spot where the town fought off an invasion by the British in 1814. … They’re listening and watching,” he said. They’re doing this now because we have a new president. “ claim they’re just trying to get signals. We were talking about it,” said Quaratella, who said he’s been cutting sailor’s hair for 50 year. “I had an officer from the base here this morning. Joe Quaratella Jr., owner of Nautilus Barber Shop, named for the first nuclear-powered submarine, near the base, said the Russians were a subject of discussion Wednesday. The situation made him think of the movie, “The Russians Are Coming, The Russians Are Coming,” he said. He said he saw Facebook posts from neighbors wondering whether they should take their children out of school. “It’s going to keep going on until everyone wants to play nice.” Walsh said it’s amusing to people who understand the context. ![]() “It’s been going on for years,” said Jeff Walsh, a retired Navy senior chief, who served 22 years aboard attack submarines and works at Electric Boat in Groton. Thunman wanted to locate and photograph the boats without tipping the Soviets to the locations. In the early 1980s, Thunman, as deputy chief of naval operations, used a search for the sunken liner Titanic as cover for the Navy’s efforts to find the wreckage of two of its submarines that sunk off the New England coast, Thresher and Scorpion. Navy scrambled to recover gear that had some how been lost by a Groton-based boat, presumably before the Soviets got it. Other sailors said they are aware of Russian ships patrolling routes that Groton submarines take to and from their base at the mouth of the Thames River. For years, it has been patrolling near East Coast naval installations and was spotted two years ago near the Navy’s Trident ballistic missile submarine base in Kings Bay, Ga. The 300-foot, SSV-175 Viktor Leonov is packed with electronic gear to monitor sonar and communications and carries defensive weaponry. But these kinds of ships - and we do the same thing - go all over the place to stay reasonably accustomed to the waters.” A military ship up here all by itself is kind of unusual. And it is not uncommon for all kinds of ships from all kinds of places to be all over the world. “It’s a ship, but it’s not the Great White Fleet. “I wouldn’t make a mountain out of a molehill,” Candler said. ![]() David Candler, who spent his career serving on and commanding submarines in Groton, agreed. ships elsewhere in the world more troubling than the presence of Russians in international waters near New England. Thunman said he finds reports of Russian aircraft buzzing U.S. ![]() “Any sort of classified traffic that we have goes by classified circuits and they can’t get into it.” “The only thing they could get out of the radio circuitry is normal commercial traffic,” said Thunman, who spent a career playing Cold War cat-and-mouse with the former Soviet Union and then the Russians as a commander of submarines and submarine groups around the world. Russian warship Viktor Leonov enters the bay in Havana, Cuba, Tuesday, March 24, 2015. Of course, I’ve been out of it for a few years, but don’t know of any specialized equipment that they could use to intercept our classified communications.” “I mean, what could that thing do to us? It doesn’t have anything special that I know of today. Ronald Thunman, former deputy chief of naval operations for submarine warfare. “This is for show,” said retired Vice Adm. They said that such vessels are interested primarily in eavesdropping on electronic communications, but lack the technology to crack U.S. Old submarine hands, including retired senior commanders, tended to brush aside political concern about the Russian ship. “If you’ve been down at the base in the last three or four years, it’s been a real common topic of conversation.” “The local community is loaded with incredible Navy tradition and experience and it’s not a great surprise that Putin’s resurgence in terms of naval activity is happening,” Courtney said. In a community that has a long Navy tradition, Courtney said, this action does not come as a surprise. … This is part of a pattern of what’s going on right now, not just off the East Coast of the U.S., but overseas,” Courtney, whose district includes Groton, said on the House floor Wednesday morning. “They are doing this obviously with aggressive intent to say the least. ![]()
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