Navy

Russian nuclear submarines sailed past UK waters on secret mission into the Atlantic to prove they can strike the United States in largest operation since the Cold War

Russian submarines are conducting a secret mission to sail into the North Atlantic and threaten the US East Coast, according to Norwegian intelligence.

Ten submarines, at least eight of them nuclear-powered, set sail from the port of Murmansk early last week before some of them passed through the Greenland-Iceland-UK Gap, skirting British territorial waters.

Those submarines are now heading out into the North Atlantic with the goal being to pass west of Greenland and as far into the North Atlantic as possible.

The mission, the largest fielded by Russia's Northern Fleet since the Cold War, is designed to prove that Moscow has the ability to strike the US East Coast, Norway's intelligence service said.