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...north and the naval base at Cam Ranh Bay in Viet Nam to the south. That American-built facility has fulfilled the Soviets' long-held, often frustrated desire for a warm-water naval base halfway between Vladivostok and the politically volatile, economically vital Persian Gulf-Indian Ocean region, where the superpowers are now circling each other warily...
...naval base at Subic Bay in the Philippines. One of their missions is to scrutinize Subic and the nearby U.S. Air Force base at Clark Field. The bases in Viet Nam give the Soviet navy what military experts call a "surge capability" its ships can steam into the Indian Ocean in one or two days, compared with the seven or more days' voyage required from Vladivostok...
...gateway between the Pacific and the Indian Ocean-and the choke point through which passes virtually all of the Middle Eastern oil on which Japan's economy depends-is the Strait of Malacca, a channel 30 miles wide at its narrowest point, between the Malay Peninsula and the Indonesian island of Sumatra. Here too Soviet naval activity has been on the rise, in both obvious and not-so-obvious ways. Soviet destroyers, cruisers and diesel-powered, torpedo-firing Foxtrot submarines have been passing through the strait at the rate of about six a month, while nuclear-powered Echo-class...
...merchant and oceanographic research fleets, all of which have naval auxiliary functions. In fact, Soviet fishing vessels, particularly mother ships, often carry out electronic eavesdropping on other navies. Soviet merchant tankers are frequently diverted to refuel warships. The Soviet Oceanographic Research Fleet-the largest in the world-charts the ocean floor for the navigators aboard Soviet submarines and sometimes lays down remote-control sensors in order to help the Soviets keep track of American submarines. Says Admiral Foley, tersely: "The Russians' entire maritime capability is linked together." The U.S. Navy has the benefit of no such cooperation with commercial...
...Pacific by 18% in just the past three years. Despite the Soviet numerical advantage, American vessels by and large are technically more sophisticated, carry more firepower and have more experienced crews. Because the Seventh Fleet must do double duty, however, patrolling the troubled waters of the Indian Ocean as well as the Pacific, U.S. ships and crews are spending 15% more time at sea than they did even during the height of the Viet Nam War. That statistic means that both men and machines are being overworked...