Subs With Connecticut Ties Chosen For Arctic Exercise

HARTFORD, Conn. (AP) — The U.S. Navy is testing its capabilities in the Arctic with submarines named after Connecticut and its capital city.The USS Connecticut and the USS Hartford are participating in Ice Exercise 2018, or ICEX.
The five-week biennial exercise began Wednesday with the arrival of the two fast-attack submarines and a Royal Navy submarine, the HMS Trenchant.
They’ll conduct multiple transits through the Arctic Ocean, surface at the North Pole, collect scientific data a