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Oct 15, 2026
Jerome StarkeyHOST
They are sort of in the middle of what is known as the Greenland-Iceland-UK gap.
Jerome StarkeyHOST
And this is a strategically vital stretch of water, which is the gateway, a channel through which Russian vessels and submarines must pass if they're to sail from Murmansk, home of the Russian Northern Fleet, into the Atlantic.
Jerome StarkeyHOST
And this is a stretch of water that is incredibly heavily surveilled by NATO nations, but particularly by the UK and the United States and Iceland.
Jerome StarkeyHOST
There are concerns, and they've been expressed several ways, that Russia may attempt to test NATO, to undermine Article 5, by threatening a less well-defended place, sliver of territory, outpost or islands.
Jerome StarkeyHOST
Explosion so large it was sort of measured on the Richter scale.
Jerome StarkeyHOST
But if you're talking about the bases, for example, of the Northern Fleet up in Murmansk, uh, I'd have to speculate that- Ukraine isn't targeting them, hasn't really targeted them, uh, simply because they're not directly relevant to the war that's being fought, uh, on its soil.
Jerome StarkeyHOST
They are very far away, and for the effort it takes, it would take to degrade Russia's military there, there are better targets, more relevant targets that Ukraine can hit, uh, closer, more easily or, or with more effect closer to home.
Jerome StarkeyHOST
And finally, how many troops is Ukraine recruiting relative to how many it's losing? It's a really good question, and also really timely because we know both Russia and Ukraine are under immense pressure to increase mobilization to keep, uh, the force, to keep their front lines staffed with soldiers.
Jerome StarkeyHOST
Explosion so large it was sort of measured on the Richter scale.
Jerome StarkeyHOST
But if you're talking about the bases, for example, of the Northern Fleet up in Murmansk, uh, I'd have to speculate that...
Jerome StarkeyHOST
Ukraine isn't targeting them, hasn't really targeted them, uh, simply because they're not directly relevant to the war that's being fought, uh, on its soil.
Jerome StarkeyHOST
They are very far away, and for the effort it takes, it would take to degrade Russia's military there, there are better targets, more relevant targets that Ukraine can hit, uh, closer, more easily or, or with more effect closer to home.
Al MurrayHOST
And so in the Northwestern Strategic Direction, you've got incorporated- [laughs] ...
Al MurrayHOST
Northwestern and Northern Fronts- Just ... and the Baltic and Northern Fleet.
Al MurrayHOST
So, so this makes Voroshilov the senior military commander in the North, and, and Voroshilov is really pretty incompetent.
Al MurrayHOST
Um- Yeah ... uh, he's the guy who commanded the Red Army troops in Finland.
Max LucadoHOST
In 1962, Vasily Arkhipov was the chief of staff for four Russian submarines that came within a trigger squeeze of destroying the world.
Max LucadoHOST
The four vessels were a part of the Soviet Northern Fleet, and they set sail in 1962 under the cloak of secrecy.
Max LucadoHOST
The Soviet commanders gave each submarine captain a set of secret instructions that he was to open only at sea.
Max LucadoHOST
The crews assumed that they were being sent on a training mission off the Siberian coast.
speaker_2HOST
No, it's everyone.
speaker_2HOST
The entire Soviet Northern Fleet is mobilized, and the desperation of that fleet is perfectly encapsulated in one specific chapter involving a pursuing Soviet Alpha-class submarine.
speaker_1HOST
This chapter is just unbelievable.
speaker_2HOST
It really is.
8 MINS LATER
speaker_1HOST
They absolutely refuse to admit to the Americans that their most advanced submarine has been stolen.
speaker_1HOST
Think about how terrifying that is.
speaker_1HOST
You have the entire Soviet Northern Fleet and the United States Navy sailing right next to each other in the Atlantic.
speaker_2HOST
Both sides are fully armed.
speaker_2HOST
So he knows the letter will trigger a massive, desperate response.
speaker_3HOST
It guarantees that the entire Soviet Northern Fleet will be mobilized to hunt him down.
speaker_3HOST
They are given explicit orders to find the Red October and destroy it at all costs, all under the flimsy diplomatic cover of a massive search and rescue operation.
speaker_2HOST
Wow.
Daven HiskeyHOST
Buoyed by this success in 1973, the Navy installed a more sophisticated surveillance device, which was powered by a plutonium-fueled radioisotope thermal generator, or RTG, could record 12 communications channels at once, and could record up to a year's worth of data.
Daven HiskeyHOST
And five years later, another tap was successfully placed on the cable connecting the Severodvinsk Naval Base to the Soviet Northern Fleet headquarters in Murmansk.
Daven HiskeyHOST
But this intelligence windfall came to an abrupt end in 1981 when a US spy satellite spotted a small fleet of Russian ships gathered over the exact location of the recording device.
Daven HiskeyHOST
Alarmed at this development, the Navy dispatched the USS Parche to recover the next set of tapes.
Chris ParryGUEST
We did all sorts of exercises associated with getting quite a lot of shipping across the Atlantic.
Chris ParryGUEST
We were also in the business of containing, uh, the Soviet Northern Fleet and the Soviet Baltic Fleet in the Greenland, Iceland, UK gap.
Chris ParryGUEST
And if you look at what's going on nowadays, that's essentially the strategy, [laughs] is to keep the Russians bottled up, uh, you know, north of Norway, uh, not to break out into the Atlantic and not to break the alliance, essential umbilical cord between North America, uh, uh, and Europe.
Chris ParryGUEST
That's still very, very vital.
Herman PoppleberryHOST
Russia has the largest Arctic presence by a wide margin.
Herman PoppleberryHOST
The Northern Fleet, headquartered in Severomorsk, encompasses two-thirds of Russia's naval power and roughly 80 operational ships.
Herman PoppleberryHOST
They reopened Soviet-era Arctic bases.
Herman PoppleberryHOST
They built a large FSB border guard complex on Alexandra Land in Franz Josef Land, above the 80th parallel, housing 150 soldiers for 18 months without resupply.
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