“These exercises are activities that navies from all over the world carry out recurrently to check the degree of readiness of their equipment or their personnel, of the means they have to face any circumstance.
“The appreciation (of Venezuela) is disproportionate in every sense. We have a history and a tradition of training and collaboration with the United States for many years,” he said.
According to the commander of the Navy, the exercises mark the opportunity to integrate Colombia into the standards of the
“Virginia-class submarines have nuclear propulsion, the energy source through which they are mobilized is through nuclear fusion. This allows them to remain indefinitely anywhere in the world. It is a ship of significant dimensions, something more that 110 meters in total length, exceeds 7,000 tons of displacement. Its crew exceeds 300 men”, described the officer.