Warzone/The Drive: Russia Just Accepted Its New Super-Quiet, Cruise Missile-Packed Submarine Into Service
It’s been a long wait, but the new Yasen-M subclass should help revitalize the Russian Navy’s nuclear-powered submarine force.
More than seven years after its last nuclear-powered cruise missile submarine, or SSGN, entered service, the Russian Navy has commissioned its next such vessel, the Kazan, the lead ship of a new subclass.
The event marks an important advance in the overhaul of Russia’s mainly Cold War-era nuclear submarine fleet, which had previously introduced only one SSGN of all-new design, the Severodvinsk, since the collapse of the Soviet Union.
The new type is based on the design of the Severodvinsk, the sole Project 885 Yasen vessel.
The Kazan, first of the Project 885M Yasen-M subclass, was officially commissioned into service today at the Sevmash shipyard in Severodvinsk, on the White Sea in northwest Russia. Construction work on the submarine had started back in 2009 and, after much delay, it had finally been launched in March 2017.
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Update #1: Advanced 4th-gen nuclear-powered submarine Kazan joins Russia's Navy Northern Fleet (VIDEO) (RT)
Update #2: Russia’s New SSGN Submarine Kazan Commissioned into Northern Fleet (Naval News)
WNU Editor: This is a new class of submarine, and there has been multiple delays. It looks like they have finally solved all of the bugs.
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The US has problems verifying the supply chain origins of electronic components used in its subs and ships. The Russians must have far more difficulties ensuring western or Chinese specially modified electronics aren’t on this new sub.
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