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Inside a US Navy submarine navigating the Arctic

New York Times
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Inside a US Navy submarine navigating the Arctic
US Navy personnel carry out their duties in temperatures of -40 degrees after the fast-attack submarine USS Hampton surfaced in the Beaufort Sea, a marginal sea of the Arctic Ocean during Operation Ice Camp. Photo / Kenny Holston, The New York Times

About 185km north of Alaska, a US Navy submarine emerges from several feet of thick ice. The Navy’s 68 submarines could be anywhere at any time - patrolling the Arctic and the Persian Gulf, or near Russia, China or North Korea. Their missions are closely-held secrets, but a frigid training

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