The Russian Navy Pr.636.3 Improved-Kilo class submarine "Novorossiysk" seen after leaving the Mediterranean on the night of December 2. Photographed by the Portuguese Navy.
The Russian Navy is significantly weakened in the Mediterranean. The collapse of the Assad regime in Syria has denied them their permanent base there. And with it, their ability to maintain conventional submarines there for any length of time. The only boat known to be there has just left, leaving no Russian submarines in the Mediterranean, H I Sutton reports in Naval News.
