Video: USS Hartford Surfaces Through Arctic Ice

Posted to Maritime Reporter (by March 14, 2018

A pair of U.S. Navy submarines recently surfaced in the Arctic Circle as part of multinational maritime exercise north of Alaska.

A graphic display of USS Hartford (SSN 768) surfacing through ice during Ice Exercise 2018 (ICEX), a biennial exercise in the Arctic to train and validate the warfighting capabilities of submarines in extreme cold-water conditions.

Los Angeles-class fast attack submarine USS Hartford (SSN 768) and Seawolf-class fast attack submarine, USS Connecticut (SSN 22) surfaced in the Arctic Circle March 10 during the multinational exercise.

Find out more about the mission here.

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