A small island off the coast of Helsinki, often mistaken for a submarine
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by Pontus_Pilates
A small island off the coast of Helsinki, often mistaken for a submarine
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by Pontus_Pilates
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Wow that new Russian camouflage scheme is great
https://yle.fi/a/74-20164885
Finland doesn’t have submarines, so any one spotted in its waters are foreign. In this environment, anything that remotely looks like a submarine is suspected (by the public) to be a Russian sub up to no good.
Looks like a submarine to me.
What are you Finns up to? Researching under water sauna?
If that small island would be in Aegean Sea between Greece and Türkiye…
Reminds me of [Whiskey on the Rocks](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Soviet_submarine_S-363).
That small island is called Halliluoto (translates to *grey seal islet*).
The bunker in the Halliluoto is from Second Soviet–Finnish War (1940s). The antennas on top of the bunker are a sector light and a radar reflector, both helping sailors to navigate in the seas nowadays.
All ferries from Helsinki to Tallinn and Stockholm (and vice versa) sail next to Halliluoto. So it’s quite common to spot the island, and it causes confusion amongst tourists in the ferries. Almost every time I’m on one of these ferries I can hear someone talking about is it a submarine or not.
No wonder
Sometimes people witnessed two of them, but there was no need for an alert.
Looks like Akula-class submarine. Nice try, Russia!
Yea I think the antenna or whatever man-made structure that is sticking out of it doesn’t really help, right?
That’s what a spy submarine would say!
An illusion, what are you hiding?
That profile sure looks like an Alpha class SSN…
Put a Swedish Navy flag on it. That way Russians can boast they have finally detected one of the Swedish silent hunters in the Baltic sea.
Understandable.
Can’t believe they put a tiny black traffic cone next to it
It IS well masked Putin’s submarine, and Putin’s propagandists convinced the public that it is not a submarine.
That’s actually pretty cool.
You can’t tell me this wasn’t deliberately made to look like a submarine.
Maybe it’s part of the Finnish military defence playbook? ^^=D
Sneaky Russians
Yeah, that really does look like a Russian submarine, one of the fast ones. Akula maybe?
Look It’s a Russian Alpha class!
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