The U.S Navy has established an anti-submarine task group of Arleigh Burke-class destroyers.
The force will be on call to conduct operations in the North Atlantic Ocean on short notice.
This new anti-submarine force, officially named
Task Group Greyhound has reached initial operational capability on Sept. 1, 2021.
Greyhound is set to be a rotational force with 4 Arleigh Burkes warships assigned to it 24/7.
In case of any possible threat, these warships will be used to meet the challenge.
In this video Defense Updates analyzes why US Navy has created a dedicated anti-submarine task with
Arleigh Burke-class destroyers? Let's get into the details.
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The Russian Navy is in the process of acquiring
more capable and quieter nuclear-powered submarines.
For the last few years, US Navy and other U.S. military officials have time and again
indicated that the threat posed by the Russian submarine fleet is increasing especially
off the East Coast of the United States. U.S. Air Force General Glen VanHerck, head of U.S.
Northern Command (NORTHCOM) and the U.S.-Canadian North American Aerospace Defense Command (NORAD),
referring Russian Yasen-M class submarine said at a Congressional hearing earlier this year,
"Within a five-year period, they'll have eight to nine of those submarines, which will be a
persistent proximate threat off of our East and West Coasts that we haven't had ever in the past,"
VanHerck was referring specifically to Russia's nuclear-powered Yasen & Yasen M class
guided-missile submarines and said that these boats were "on par with ours."
A video on the Yasen M Class submarine has been posted earlier in this channel,
please refer to the above card.
Viewers may note that the Russian Navy is also adding Borei-A-class nuclear-powered
ballistic-missile submarines, which is an improved sub-variant of the original Borei
class design that first entered service in 2013.
US Navy Rear Admiral Brendan McLane, head of Naval Surface Force Atlantic, said during a ceremony
aboard the Arleigh Burke-class destroyer USS Thomas Hudner in Mayport, Florida, Greyhound's
job is to "provide the fleet with predictable, continuously ready and fully certified warships"
Viewers may note that the task group's name appears to be selected from a 2020 movie of
the same name, starring Tom Hanks, which was based on the C.S. Forester novel 'The Good Shepherd'.
The movie depicts the work done by destroyer escorts of merchant ships in the Atlantic
during World War II as they faced Nazi submarines.
Some of these were referred to as greyhounds in those days.
Arleigh Burkes warships have AN/SQS-53C active sonar
as well as AN/SQR-19 tactical towed array sonar.
These can be used for Anti Submarine Warfare control and guidance.
Each of these warships has a total of 96 cell MK 41 Vertical Launch System, some of which are used
to accommodate VL-ASROC which is an anti-submarine weapon having a range of 13 miles or 22 km.
Also, warship is equipped with two Mark 32 triple torpedo tubes that can be used to fire Mark 46,
Mark 50 or Mark 54 Lightweight Torpedo.
So, technically Arleigh Burke destroyers are well equipped to detect,
track and neutralize enemy submarines.
Currently, USS Thomas Hudner (DDG-116) and USS Donald Cook
(DDG-75) have been assigned to Greyhound.
The USS The Sullivans (DDG-68), which is presently part of the
multinational carrier strike group based on the U.K. Royal Navy's HMS Queen Elizabeth,
is set to join the unit when it returns home in January.
Also, later next year, the USS Cole (DDG-67) and USS Gravely (DDG-107)
will be added to the task group, while USS Donald Cook will be relieved for planned maintenance.
Rear Admiral McLane told USNI News, "The idea is we put in the ships that
already have deployments under their belt and are most ready and most experienced,"
Some time back U.S.Navy’s top submarine officer, Rear Admiral Dave Johnson stated,
"We’ll be facing tough potential opponents. One only has to look at the Severodvinsk,
[first vessel of Yasen class], Russia’s version of a nuclear guided missile submarine (SSGN).”
He was so impressed with this ship that he had built a model from unclassified data
so that he could look at it every day on his way to his office”.
Not only this, sometime back senior Nato official, Rear Admiral Andrew Lennon, Nato submarine forces
commander said, Russian submarine activity is at its highest level since the Cold War.
He warned Russia has boosted its subsea fleet and widened the scope of its operations
including in the eastern Mediterranean and around vital transatlantic communications cables.
A resurgent Russia is a head-ace for the U.S and NATO, especially at a time when China is
making very aggressive moves in the Indo-Pacific.
It remains to be seen how things pan out in the coming days.