As we all know, the Russian Navy's ocean-going fleet with the Kazan nuclear submarine and the Admiral Gorshkov frigate as the core has arrived in Havana, the head of Cuba, and is expected to carry out joint exercises with the Cuban Navy, and will also go to Venezuela. Although the relevant Russian and Cuban departments said that the Russian Navy did not carry nuclear weapons on this trip, after all, this is a very rare arrival of the Russian Navy in Cuba, the "backyard" of the United States, after the end of the Cold War, and this will undoubtedly make the United States very uneasy and even annoyed.
In this context, the United States is trying to confront Russia in a-for-tat confrontation, and at the same time, it is very likely that it is warning Cuba about its growing proximity to Russia. On June 13, local time, the U.S. Navy dispatched a Los Angeles-class attack nuclear submarine "Helena" to the U.S. military base in Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, which is the first time since the Cold War that the nuclear submarines of two nuclear powers have docked in Cuba at the same time.
Obviously, the purpose of this move by the US military is to demonstrate its military strength to Russia and Cuba and to warn Cuba and Russia not to act rashly. But in fact, what the United States may not have expected is that the US military's move is not only unable to form a so-called "deterrent" against Russia, but is likely to show its own shortcomings -- in terms of nuclear submarines, Russia already has a certain advantage over the United States, which can be seen from the comparison of the combat power of the Los Angeles-class nuclear submarine Helena dispatched by the US military and the Russian Severodvinsk-class nuclear submarine Kazan in Cuba.
It is no exaggeration to say that the firepower of the Type 885M Severodvinsk-class nuclear submarine sent by the Russian Navy to Cuba this time far exceeds that of the Los Angeles-class of the United States, and the overall combat power is also stronger than that of the Los Angeles-class. The Project 885 nuclear submarine is a masterpiece of the fourth generation of nuclear submarines of the Russian Navy. Western submarine experts believe that the performance of this nuclear submarine is even better than that of the Seawolf-class nuclear submarine, the strongest in the United States! The displacement of the Type 885M nuclear submarine is up to 13,800 tons, and as an attack nuclear submarine, the tonnage is even larger than some ballistic missile nuclear submarines! It's simply breathtaking!
Such a large tonnage is enough for the Type 885M nuclear submarine to carry a large amount of weapons and equipment. According to open information, this type of nuclear submarine has 24 units of vertical launchers, which can carry various types of Soviet/Russian-made anti-ship missiles, cruise missiles, etc. It is claimed that the powerful Zircon hypersonic missile in service of the Russian Navy can also be carried on the Type 885M nuclear submarine, and the rate of fire of this missile can reach Mach 9! The US military's active missile interception means can almost be said to be helpless against it!
In addition to the Zircon missile for anti-ship, this type of boat is also capable of carrying even more powerful Caliber cruise missiles than American Tomahawk cruise missiles, and the range of this improved version of this missile can even reach 4000 kilometers, so that the Type 885M nuclear submarine can even have the ability to strike strategic to a certain extent!
Of course, as an attack nuclear submarine, the anti-submarine capabilities of the Type 885M nuclear submarine are also quite strong! This kind of nuclear submarine is groundbreaking in four directions: front, rear, left and right, with torpedo tubes. That is, if necessary, a nuclear submarine of this type can simultaneously attack with a 533-mm super-large torpedo in four directions, forward, backward, left, and right! It can be seen from this that this Type 885M nuclear submarine of the Russian Navy is powerful!
In contrast, the displacement of the Los Angeles-class nuclear submarine dispatched by the US military is only more than 6,900 tons, which is about half that of the Russian submarine, and in terms of armament, the Los Angeles-class has only four torpedo tubes and 12 missile launchers, which can launch Tomahawk cruise missiles or AGM-84 Harpoon anti-ship missiles and other missiles currently in service with the US military. It can be seen that the nuclear submarine dispatched by the US military this time is not only small in tonnage, but also far inferior to the nuclear submarine dispatched by the Russian Navy in terms of firepower!
Under these circumstances, it is very likely that the nuclear submarine dispatched by the US military will make Cuba and Russia see the fact that the US military does not have much advantage over Russia in the underwater fleet, and not only will it not be able to play the role of so-called "deterrence" against Russia and Cuba, but will make Russia see the essence of the United States' "fierce inwardness." This may not have been expected by the United States.
End of this issue.