Russian Navy removes emblems to make faceless subs

Russian navy will reintroduce Soviet practice and make it more complicated for possible enemies to identify the submarines sailing in surface position.

he huge and highly visible emblems in the front on the submarines’ towers make it too easy to figure out which of them sailing or not, believes the main command of the Russian Navy. Now, the order is given to paint over the emblems and numbers on the submarine hulls. “The main task of a submarine sailing on combat duty is to remain unnoticed for the enemies’ anti-submarine forces and the identification signs are too visible,” says a navy sources

All Russian submarines have different naval numbers and names. The coat of arms with the name on the signs in front of the tower easily shows which submarine sailing. These signs will now be painted over, especially for submarines on duty testing weapons. This is the same practice that the Soviet navy used for their submarines in the Cold War area in the 80ies.
U.S. submarines are also sailing without markings.