United Shipbuilding Corporation (USC) It launched a modernization project of deepwater unit 16810 "Rus", which is a carrier for the oceanographic vessel "Yantar", which is part of the Northern Fleet, break the news.
The device is intended for research and rescue operations at depths of up to 6 thousand meters. It is equipped with modern equipment, allowing to produce photo- and video.
Modernization conducts JSC "Admiralty Shipyards" (part of the USC). Works should be completed by the end of next year.
According to the Main Staff of the Navy, in the course of modernization of the repair of the outer hull will be carried out and new units are installed buoyancy. But most importantly, It will be seriously updated stuffing: bathyscaphe be equipped with new navigation systems and automatic control, as well as advanced energy-intensive lithium-ion batteries.
The newspaper recalls, that the outer housing "Russia" meter is made of fiberglass with a filling of high strength spheroplastic. The length of the device - 8 m, height - 3,9 m, weight - 25 t, maximum speed - about 6 km / h. crew - 2-3 hydronauts. FROM 2000 , the bathyscaphe was in trial operation of the Navy. After the first modernization 2007 he was adopted by the.
As the veteran submariner Vladimir Ashik, submersibles should regularly upgrade, their design allows it. According to him, bathyscaphes "Rus" is needed in the first place to save the submarine crews. In some cases, they remain the last hope for salvation.
