After crossing the Strait of Gibraltar alongside the Russian ship, the Spanish patrol vessel Audaz appeared, reported on Wednesday the Itamilradar portal, tracking the movement of ships and ships in the Mediterranean Sea.
On the past weekend, Viktor Leonov, a 100-metre-long, flowing through the waters controlled by Ireland, ignored attempts to establish communication. For 36 hours he was followed by Irish naval service ship Samuel Beckett, and from the air was monitored by a patrol aircraft of the Irish air corps and reconnaissance aircraft of the British RAF.
Irish media, citing sources in the defence ministry, speculated that Viktor Leonov was heading for Cuba. But according to his current course, he will be on a spy mission on the confederate flank of NATO.
Victor Leonov. This is the function of “spy on water”
Viktor Leonov is 1 of respective russian ships designed to collect intelligence, equipped with the ability to capture radar signals and radio listening. It most likely besides has underwater monitoring equipment.
The ship has a documented past of spy operations in British waters, and especially American waters, where it has been repeatedly observed close American naval installations in the vicinity of Florida. It was besides detected erstwhile it followed American submarines.
