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Delivery of First Project 885M SSGN (Upgraded Yasen class) Kazan Submarine Delayed by One Year.
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Russian Navy Project 885 Yasen-class Submarine Severodvinsk (K-560) underway |
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construction of Kazan and Prince Vladimir submarines is going according
to schedule. They will be passed into Navy service in 2018,"
it said. A military-defense source told TASS last autumn the transfer of Kazan would be delayed. Then Russian Navy Commander-in-Chief Admiral Viktor Chirkov and President of the United Shipbuilding Corporation Alexey Rakhmanov however said the military will get the submarine on time. Kazan had its keel laid at Sevmash in 2009. It is the second vessel of project 885 and the first one of the upgraded project 885M class. The first ship of class Project 885 nuclear-powered submarine Severodvinsk armed with missiles and torpedoes was laid down in 1993 and delivered to the Russian Armed Forces for operational evaluation in late 2013. © Copyright 2016 TASS. All rights reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten or redistributed. Link to Project 885 Yasen-class technical datasheet |
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