After the end of the Cold War, with the advent of the global disarmament tide, the size of NATO's navy also shrank significantly. The main strategic rival, the Soviet Navy, has disappeared, the russian navy's strength continues to decline, and the anti-submarine network created by the NATO navy in the North Atlantic has shrunk. But now, the situation has been different, the increasingly quiet Russian submarines frequently appear around NATO countries, and even repeatedly escape the encirclement and interception of the NATO navy, and the emergence of new "Poseidon" nuclear-powered torpedoes and other weapons has forced NATO to re-strengthen its anti-submarine network.
According to the Russian Satellite News Agency quoted by the US NAVAL Research Institute News Network (USNI News) latest report, recently, the U.S. Navy's Atlantic Surface Force Commander, Rear Admiral Brendan McLean, said that the U.S. Navy is ready to set up a task force on the East Coast, which will consist of several destroyers to ensure that it can be quickly dispatched to deal with the threat of Russian submarines appearing in the Atlantic.
Brendan McLean
The task force, code-named Greyhound, is based at Naval Base Mayport and Norfolk Naval Base in Virginia. The contingent will initially consist of two destroyers, HMS Thomas Hadner and HMS Donald Cook, and by January next year, the destroyer HMS Sullivan, which is currently escorting the British aircraft carrier Queen Elizabeth, will also join, and by 2022, the destroyers Cole and Gravel will join, and HMS Thomas Hadner will be withdrawn to enter the planned overhaul maintenance period.
Although they lag behind the United States, Britain, and France in terms of silent performance, weapons, and control systems, Russian submarines are indeed becoming quieter, and the Russian government is investing more resources in its own underwater forces. In contrast, the NATO Navy has not invested much in the amount of anti-potential (far more than Russia in absolute terms, which is relative), and while the Russian Navy is strengthening its underwater forces, the NATO Navy is busy "from sea to land" trying to compete for more budgets from the war on terror. With each passing, Russian submarines now have more deterrent capabilities. Russian nuclear submarines that appeared near Britain escaped the full round-up of the British Navy, which caused a huge shock within the NATO Navy.
USS Sullivan
The NATO Navy is investing more resources in the field of traditional warfare, but the problem is that it is not possible to build a sufficient anti-potential volume in a short period of time, most NATO members actually waste their own anti-potential, even the United States and Britain, also face the dilemma of insufficient budget, there are too many places to spend money.
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It is not cost-effective for the U.S. Navy to temporarily form an anti-submarine task force of destroyers, which is too small, and the U.S. Navy has decommissioned all of its Perry-class frigates, the best surface counter-potential in the West during the Cold War era. Now, the U.S. Navy will have enough new frigates before it will be known, and the Russian Navy still has a certain advantage in this period.