Russia to launch new nuclear submarine Sunday

[Storm]

Russia to launch new nuclear submarine Sunday



MOSCOW, April 9 (RIA Novosti) - A fourth-generation strategic nuclear submarine will be launched during a special ceremony at a shipbuilding yard in northern Russia Sunday, a first deputy prime minister said Monday.

The Yury Dolgoruky, a Borey-class nuclear missile submarine, was built at the Sevmash plant in the northern Arkhangelsk Region. It will be equipped with the Bulava ballistic missile, which is adapted from the Topol-M (SS-27).

Sergei Ivanov said at a government meeting that the submarine will undergo sea trials in 2007 and will be fully equipped with weaponry in 2008. After that, it will be commissioned by the Russian Navy.

The submarine has a length of 170 meters (580 feet), a body diameter around 13 meters (42 feet), and a submerged speed of about 29 knots. It can carry up to 16 ballistic missiles.

Two other Borey-class nuclear submarines, the Alexander Nevsky and the Vladimir Monomakh, are currently under construction at the Sevmash plant, with a fourth submarine on the future production schedule list.

President Vladimir Putin said in March last year that Russia's submarine fleet is a major component of Russia's defense policy, and that fourth-generation submarines armed with Bulava missiles would form the core of an entire fleet of modern submarines.

http://en.rian.ru/russia/20070409/63353403.html

[kiwi]

I hope they have learnt from the last time to treat their sub crews better and accept assistence if the bloody thing goes down.

[Crusty]

I'm not all that keen on the colour. Do they have them with a metallic pearl colour scheme?

[Collo]

Is it just mee or does that look like a Rankin Class sub

[Storm]

Is it just mee or does that look like a Rankin Class sub

It has to be a library pic... but the sub in the pic is russian, look at the flag, is the one of Russian Navy, I think.

[Collo]

It's just a wee bit similar to our Rankin/Collins Class subs. I had a closer look and there are a few small difference but still she looks a wee bit like one of ours.

[Elwingflys]

Nice looking sub though.
Now if they would ever figure up how to properly dispose of all the nukie subs they have moldering away in decomission with their power plants about to rust through the bottom of the hull. I hate glow in the dark fish unless they are in about 160 fathoms of water.

[Crusty]

Elfy.....!! Methinks you are not taking this thread seriously!

[Elwingflys]

Why of course I am. That's just my witty way of complementing the new and worrying about the old. I am serious as a heart attack!