The Russian fleet will continue to re-equip multipurpose nuclear submarines of projects 971, 949A i 885. All submarines of these projects will receive cruise and anti-ship missiles during modernization.. RIA Novosti reports this with reference to a source in the defense industry.
According to the source, service life of multi-purpose submarines of projects 949A and 971 will be doubled, during the modernization, all submarines will be armed with cruise missiles “Caliber” and anti-ship “onyx”, as well as hypersonic “zircon”. submarine project 885 and 885A (“Ash”), who are regular carriers “calibres” and “Onyx”, will be re-armed “Zircons”.
Multipurpose nuclear submarines of projects 971 and 949А after modernization will be armed “size”, “Onyxes” and “Zircons”. Containers for these missiles are universal
– It leads the agency source as saying.
note, that the program for the rearmament of nuclear submarines of projects 949A “Antaeus” and the project 971 (“Pike-B”) already implemented. “Anthei” instead 24 anti-ship missiles “granite” are armed 48 missiles “Caliber”, “onyx” and in perspective “zircon”. Project submarines 971 from the 24th “Animal Division” The Northern Fleet of the Navy during the modernization also receive universal launchers, designed for launches “calibres”, “Onyx” and “zircons”.