Mark Stout is a Senior Editor at War on the Rocks. 813. 13 0 obj However, during the 1980s and well into the 1990s, the Swedes investigated innumerable other reports of submarines, frogmen, and underwater vehicles in their waters. Swedish naval forces reacted to the breach of sovereignty by sending an unarmed naval officer aboard the boat to meet the captain and demand an explanation. A situação foi extremamente embaraçosa tanto para URSS, quanto para a Suécia. Last weekend, news broke that the Swedish navy was conducting a search for a Russian submarine inside Swedish waters. If the political uproar continues, the mysterious Whiskey wreck may be investigated sooner, rather than later. Then in 2004, a Swedish scholar (published a book in English with a major and respectable national security publishing house blaming the United States and Britain. it hit some rocks in Swedish sea. endobj <> Not surprisingly, critics (and behind pay wall here and here) argued out that the scholar based his findings on questionable documents, unreliable oral testimony, and flawed methodologies. ( Log Out / <> Thanks to the Parallel History Project, the English language executive summary of the Ekeus Commission’s report is available in full-text. Two ships, believed to be from the Soviet fleet, were then detected within the 19 kilometre limit with a bearing on Karlskrona harbor. It also criticized the Swedish government over its years for mishandling of evidence and a flawed analytic process. In 2013, the Russian Air Force even simulated bombing attacks on targets in the Stockholm area. Soviet submarine S-363 was a Soviet Navy Whiskey-class submarine of the Baltic Fleet, which became famous under the designation U 137 when it ran aground on 27 October 1981 on the south coast of Sweden, approximately 10 kilometres (6.2 mi) from Karlskrona, one of the larger Swedish naval bases. 15 0 obj
In October 1981, the Soviet submarine (NATO codename: Whiskey) S-363 accidentally hit an underwater rock about 10 kilometres from the main Swedish naval base at Karlskrona, surfacing within Swedish waters. COPYRIGHT © 2019 WAR ON THE ROCKS. TYPEWRITTEN PAGES: 1 TRANSLATOR: C NISC TRANSLATION NO. endobj Additionally, Swedish naval officers examined the logbooks and instruments of the submarine. You can support us in the following ways: In Order Make a Comment You need to login. Going already in surface position Submarine №137 was not marked by any Swedish radar.
Thats why it's called whisky on the rock. Swedish Prime Minister Thorbjorn Falldin announced the allegations to the world press. ALL RIGHTS RESERVED. After all, Russia has recently shown little consideration for international borders, swallowing significant pieces of Ukraine, kidnapping an Estonian intelligence officer, and violating Finnish, Estonian, and Swedish airspace. It stayed there for an embarrassing week and a half. Change ), You are commenting using your Google account. The boat's presence coincided with a Swedish naval exercise, testing new equipment, in the area during the same days. The Swede's were not amused at those intrusions, and protested to Russia. Our submarine inspired barware makes a great gift for the submariner in your life. 9 0 obj The Cold War ended in 1991, and so did nearly all Russian submarine operations. These personalized gifts will be shown off for years to come and they'll have you to thank for it! But word eventually got out from the survey company. "WHISKEY ON THE ROCKS" -THE SUBMARINE INCIDENT OFF KARLSKRONA [Westerlund, Karl-Erik. He is the Director of the MA Program in Global Security Studies and the Graduate Certificate Program in Intelligence at Johns Hopkins University’s School of Arts and Sciences in Washington, D.C. This was reported to the Swedish Navy, which promptly declared the find the result of a retired sub sinking while being towed by a Russian ship to the wreckers (to be disassembled for scrap) and thus information not worth making public. In Swedish radar control centers, the storm interfered with the radar image.
These are murky waters, to say the least. As of this writing, the search continues and word has come out that this is not the first such incident in recent years. Marine-Rundschau No.
This raised speculation that the sub might have been one of those detected, and attacked (with depth charges) in the 1980s, when Russian subs frequently entered Swedish waters for training (to see if they could get in and out of protected coastal waters on espionage, or wartime missions.)
Despite claims by Moscow that the submarine “suffered navigational errors”, it seemed obvious to most observers that the Soviets were serveying the main Swedish naval base when the Russians became the victims of carelessness on their part.
As a result of war experience and the capture of German technology at the end of the war, the Soviets issued a new design requirement in 1946. The coastal battery, now fully manned as well as the mobile coastal artillery guns and mine stations, went to “Action Stations”. The fisherman immediately headed for the base and reported his find. StrategyWorld.com 1998 - 2018 StrategyWorld.com. He said the incident caused quite a ruckus between Stockholm and Moscow, that Autumn, and that a very serious conflict had been nipped in the bud.
March 13, 2011: It was recently revealed that a Swedish ocean survey company, mapping Swedish coastal waters in 2009, had discovered the wreck of a Russian Whiskey class submarine.
<> The Russians stonewalled the Swedes, which resulted in several intruders being attacked. It took 11 days of tense negotiation before the submarine was allowed to leave. ( Log Out /
On October 27 1981 in the famous “Whiskey on the Rocks” incident, a Soviet Whiskey-class submarine ran aground deep inside Swedish waters right in the open air where any Swedish news outlet could film it for the price of a chartered airplane. 1, 1982, pp. Change ), You are commenting using your Facebook account. Indonesian Navy Whiskey-class submarine KRI Pasopati mounted on pedestal in Surabaya riverside The initial design was developed in the early 1940s as a sea-going follow on to the S-class submarine .
The guns’ state of the art target radar is what frightened the Soviets. Change ), You are commenting using your Twitter account. Sweden’s centre-right government at the time was determined to safeguard Sweden’s territorial integrity. About 10:00 in the morning, a fisherman noticed a large submarine with Soviet markings afloat near the Karlskrona base. The Swedish Air Force scrambled strike aircraft armed with modern anti-ship missiles and reconnaissance aircraft knowing that the weather did not allow rescue helicopters to fly in the event of an engagement. This was reported to the Swedish Navy, which promptly declared the find the result of a retired sub sinking while being towed by a Russian ship to the wreckers (to be disassembled for scrap) and thus …
It was later discovered that the Soviets had been ordered to blow up the submarine if Swedish forces attempted to capture the vessel. The Swedish government was not interested for a while, probably to avoid straining relations with their still mighty neighbor. DATE 19 April1 1982 NISC Translation … Read about our approach to external linking. It stayed there for an embarrassing week and a half.
It was pulled into international jurisdiction and returned to the control of the Soviet Navy. All Rights Reserved. The fleet did not turn immediately and as they came closer to the 12-mile (19 km) territorial limit the battery commander ordered the fire control radar into top secret war mode, turning the radar signal from a single frequency to one that jumped between frequencies to stay ahead of enemy jamming.
Anders remembered that in late October, 1981 that a Soviet submarine became stranded in southern Swedish territorial waters. But it was believed that the Russians had lost several subs, mostly older Whiskey class boats, in Swedish waters. Learn how your comment data is processed. 30-35 * ORIGINAL LANGUAGE: German-. <> Two ways to do that are to like us on. ‘Whiskey on the Rocks’ 19 de junho de 2010. One account says that the submarine, designated by NATO as a “Whiskey Class” sub, was identified as U-137. <> In addition, Sweden has a track record of claiming clandestine violations of its waters by the Soviet and Russian navies.
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The media soon dubbed the incident, “Whiskey On The Rocks”.
Swedish coastal artillery remained locked onto the Soviet ships that had come to rescue the stranded submarine because the Soviets were within the 19 kilometre territorial waters of Sweden. We would like to add 20 new subscribers this month. BOOK REVIEW: Blazing Star, Setting Sun: The Guadalcanal-Solomons Campaign November 1942–March 1943, AIR TRANSPORTATION: The Stress Of Substitution, PHOTO: Osprey Participates In NEO exercise, BOOK REVIEW: The War Went On: Reconsidering the Lives of Civil War Veterans, Air Transportation: The Stress Of Substitution, On PointSanctions Have Slashed Ayatollah Iran's War-Making Capacity, Artillery: How To Sell Against Combat Proven, WARS Nigeria: Pirates Preparing To Escalate, Winning: The Mighty Red Army Turned To Dust, Make sure you spread the word about us.
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One thing is clear, however: Russia has more than adequate plausible deniability for doing whatever it wants in Swedish waters as long as it avoids another “Whiskey on the Rocks” incident. endobj Threats and counterthreats went back and forth between Stockholm and Moscow. Swedish torpedo boats confronted the tugboat, which also left. Perhaps it was only a matter of time before something like this happened. The Swedish Defense Research Agency also secretly measured for radioactive materials from outside the hull, using gamma ray spectroscopy from a specially configured Coast Guard boat. In 2001, with the Cold War safely over (everyone thought), the Swedish government commissioned another study of the question, this time led by the eminent Swedish diplomat Rolf Ekeus. Em novembro de 1981 um submarino soviético da classe “Whiskey” encalhou nas rochas perto de Karlskrona, Suécia. <> <> The U-137 sent a distress call. “Whiskey On The Rocks” or “The Swedish Komsomol Member” 28 years ago in November 1981 the international scandal “with Soviet submarine” inflamed. Unnamed sources told Swedish newspapers that the search was launched after the interception—presumably by the Swedish signals intelligence service, the FRA—of a Russian language distress call and apparent responses from Kaliningrad, Russia, home to a Russian naval base. For years Sweden had suspected the Soviets of patrolling illegally in their territorial waters.
On October 27 1981 in the famous “Whiskey on the Rocks” incident, a Soviet Whiskey-class submarine ran aground deep inside Swedish waters right in the open air where any Swedish news outlet could film it for the price of a chartered airplane. Soviet submarine S-363 was a Soviet Navy Whiskey-class submarine of the Baltic Fleet, which became famous under the designation U 137 when it ran aground on 27 October 1981 on the south coast of Sweden, approximately 10 kilometres (6.2 mi) from Karlskrona, one of the larger Swedish naval bases. It’s unclear why that order was disobeyed. I later looked up the incident and found out that it indeed happened on October 27, 1981. As the Soviet captain was being interrogated, the weather turned bad and the Soviet submarine sent a distress call. %���� TITLE: "Whiskey on the Rocks" -The Submarine Incident off Karlskrona "Whisky on the Rocks" -Der U-Boot-Zwischefall var Karlskrona AUTHOR(S) AND/OR EDITOR(S): Karl-Erik Westerlund SOURCE: tiarine-Rundschau, No.
6789 APPROVED cu. <> A secret plan by the Soviet Navy to send in a tugboat to dislodge the stranded sub was aborted after the Swedish Navy craft arrived at the U-137, first. November 5th, the U-137 was dislodged from the rocky sholes by Swedish tugs and a torpedo boat.
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