Russia lays keels for three nuclear subs

[Saifullah Sani]

Russia laid the keels of three new nuclear submarines to celebrate Russian Navy Day on 27 July.

The boats laid down were the fifth Dolgoruky (Borey)-class (Project 955A) nuclear powered ballistic missile submarine (SSBN) Knyaz Oleg and the fourth and fifth Severodvinsk (Yasen)-class nuclear-powered attack submarines (SSNs) (Project 885M) Khabarovsk and Krasnoyarsk .

"These ships in the coming decades will be the basis of the Navy and are guaranteed to provide [the necessary] defence capabilities and security for our country," Deputy Defence Minister Yuri Borisov told reporters at the Sevmash naval dockyard in Severodvinsk.

Deputy Prime Minister Dmitri Rogozin, who also attended, said: "The Borey-class and Yasen-class constitute the core of the Navy, which is now up to date and on schedule. We know that the presence of nuclear capabilities cool the ardour of any aggressor, anywhere in the world."

President Vladimir Putin and Defence Minister Sergei Shoigu visited the Russia's Northern Fleet's home port of Severomorsk where Putin spoke from the deck of the aircraft carrier Admiral Kuznetsov , praising the achievements of the navy and its personnel.

Putin held a video conference with Mikhail Budnichenko, General Director of Sevmash, who declared that all the projects were in order and going ahead in accordance with the stipulations of the Ministry of Defence.

According to the state armaments programme Russia's Navy is scheduled to have eight Borey-class SSBNs, five of which will be of the improved Project 955A version.

The current proliferation in submarine construction has not been seen since the height of the Cold War.

The other Russian nuclear powered submarines in construction or on trials are the Borey-class SSBNs Vladimir Monomach (which completed the first stage of state sea trials on 25 July) and Knyz Vladimir , and the Yasen-class SSNs Kazan and Novosibirsk .

Most of the submarines are expected to be based with the Northern Fleet, where in Soviet times two-thirds of Russia's nuclear boats were stationed, with the rest in the Pacific Fleet. Nuclear submarines are not operated by the Black Sea and Baltic fleets.

Russia lays keels for three nuclear subs - IHS Jane's 360

 

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. Nuclear submarines are not operated by the Black Sea and Baltic fleets.

WHY?

 

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WHY?

According to international agreements, no country of the Black Sea or Baltic has right to do it. This also true to surface ships.