Word: patroling
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Russian navy now has four times the submarine strength that Hitler had at peak strength in World War II. By Jane's estimate, the Russians have six nuclear-powered subs, ten guided-missile types, more than 425 other submarines ranging from large ocean-going types down to seagoing patrol subs, medium-range subs and former German U-boats. In a foreword Editor Raymond Blackman observed that in "some quarters," it is still said that Russia's nuclear-powered submarines are not yet operational, but "this ostrich-like attitude can hardly be reconciled with the success which attended...
Navy. Mainly volunteer, the navy has already reached planned strength of 25,000 and amassed 185 small patrol ships to help keep the Russian fleet boxed up in the Baltic. Strauss has held off building the destroyers that were supposed to lead his navy, and now has talked the German government into demanding that the 3,000-ton ceiling on the size of German destroyers be raised to 5.000 tons. He wants warships big enough to mount the latest A. A. rockets - and the 1,500-mile Polaris. His projected submarine force: 24 to 36 small coastal subs, designed...
...high is the morale of Polaris submariners that most of them have withstood not only the temptations of private industry (almost every Polarisman has been offered civilian work at higher-than-service pay) but also the strains on family life. After each 60-day patrol, crews will be flown home for 30 days of leave; then they will get 30 days of refresher training before they take up their underseas stations once more. "What difference does it make if you're away half the year?" says one resigned submariner. "Whether you get along with your wife...
...Navy has its way, 45 Polaris subs will eventually be available for ocean patrol by 1965, with 30 on station at a time. This means constant coverage of 480 Soviet targets-from cities to airfields. In those 30 subs will be some 3,000 of the most highly trained members of the U.S. armed forces, whose dangerous business will be to keep the peace. Their faith in their job is spelled out in the Polaris submariner's variation on a theme by Oliver Cromwell: "Put your trust in the Lord and keep your deterrent mobile...
Communist Conservatives. Back in Havana, Fidel Castro's house organ reacted to the week's events with predictable howls of "Yankee military intervention." charged that the U.S. naval patrol was the first step in a U.S. attack on Cuba and "a grave threat to world peace." Yet there were hints that Castro might have to moderate his tone before long. Soviet Russia is increasingly-and obviously-worried about its newest satellite. In Havana, Soviet Ambassador Sergei M. Kudryavstev passed the word that Moscow is not entirely pleased with Castro's systematic alienation of Latin America...