Two multipurpose nuclear submarines “Voronezh” and “Vladivostok”, pledged on “Sevmash” 20 July on a single day of bookmarking of ships, will become part of the Russian Navy in 2027-2028 years. He told the head of the United Shipbuilding Corporation (USC) Alexey Rakhmanov.
According to the head of USC, construction of both submarines on “Sevmash” will take about 6,5 years, the field of which the submarines will be transferred to the customer.
We are planning to build boats within 6,5 years, that is, the fleet will receive them at the turn 2027-2028 years
– declared Rakhmanov.
20 July 2020 years at a shipyard “Sevmash” in Severodvinsk, the laying ceremony for two submarines of the project was held “Ash-M” “Voronezh” and “Vladivostok”. Contract for the construction of two nuclear submarines of project 885M “Ash-M” was signed in the summer 2019 years during the International Military and Technical Forum “Army-2019”. According to the director “Sevmash”, ships will receive hypersonic weapons.
Currently, the Russian Navy has one nuclear-powered submarine of the project 885 “Severodvinsk”, which entered the fleet in 2014 year. The lead submarine of the modernized project 885M “Kazan” should be in the fleet by the end of this year. Besides, on “Sevmash” five more submarines of project 885M are at different stages of construction, one of them (Novosibirsk) launched.
submarines “Ash-M” have a displacement of 13800 tonnes, immersion depth – 520 m, crew – 64 man, autonomy – 100 day, underwater speed – 31 node. Armed with mines, torpedo 533 millimeter, cruise missiles “Caliber” and “onyx”.
