The US Navy Has Created a Task Force to Counter Russian Submarines

The Greyhound Group will reach full combat readiness by June 2022 The US Navy has created a new task force on the east coast to have destroyers ready to be deployed at short notice to counter the threat from Russian submarines in the Atlantic Ocean, the US Naval Institute informed. The Institute noted that the Greyhound task force officially announced initial combat readiness on September 1. The plan is to take the destroyers that have recently completed deployment and prepare them for operations in the Atlantic, the report said. The Greyhound task force “is designed to provide the fleet with predictable, constantly ready and fully certified warships,” Rear Admiral Brendan McLane, commander of the Naval Surface Forces in the Atlantic, said at a ceremony aboard the destroyer Thomas Hudner in Mayport, Florida. “The ships will be ready to perform a wide range of tasks, including tracking Russian underwater activity in the Atlantic and the defense of our country at sea,” he added. The ships will be based in Mayport (Florida) and Norfolk (Virginia) and the task force, according to McLane, will be in full combat readiness by June 2022. The Russian Navy has developed a new generation of attack submarines equipped with missiles for hitting ground targets with a range of more than 1,600 kilometers. Moscow is also developing a new class of submarines equipped with a torpedo the size of a bus with a nuclear warhead attached to it.