Russian Navy Denies Technical Malfunction Forced Submarine to Surface
Near France

French media had reported that the diesel-electric attack submarine Novorossiysk may have experienced a fuel leak in the Strait of Gibraltar.

That diesel subarine surfaced allegedly for shallow waters in the Northsea, which is ... not impossible. But why was there a support ship that stayed nearby? And why didn't it dive again?

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