That’s the way to do it.
Finland fires warning shots at ‘foreign submarine’ near Helsinki
Incident comes amid growing military tensions with neighbouring Russia, months after Sweden mounts unsuccessful hunt for suspected Russian submarine in its waters
Finland has fired warning shots at a suspected foreign submarine off the coast of Helsinki in the early hours of Tuesday morning, amid growing military tensions with neighbouring Russia.
Carl Haglund, Finland’s defence minister, did not say whether Russia was involved, but the incident was reminiscent of in its waters last October that many thought to be Russian.
Mr Haglund told Finnish media that the target has likely left the area, adding that Finland has rarely used such warning charges.
“We strongly suspect that there has been underwater activity that does not belong there. Of course it is always serious if our territorial waters have been violated,” Mr Haglund told Finnish news agency STT.
“The bombs are not intended to damage the target, the purpose is to let the target know that it has been noticed,” Commodore Olavi Jantunen told Helsingin Sanomat newspaper.
The navy said it noticed an underwater target on Monday and again on Tuesday morning and dropped depth charges the size of grenades.
“During surveillance of [Finland’s] territorial integrity, the navy detected a possible underwater object at midday (0900 GMT) on April 27, 2015, within Finland’s territorial waters close to the border outside Helsinki,” the defence ministry said in a statement.
Very strange.
If these “Russian” subs exist, then they are using very sophisticated stealth devices, and we cant circumvent them. Very disconcerting.
Or there are no subs, and this is all a propgaganda excercise.
Russian military jets regularly stray into Estonian and other countries’ airspace. It would hardly be surprising if the Russian navy used a sub to test the Finns ability to detect them.