Project 636.3 Submarines for Russian Pacific fleet to be built on time.

Six submarines of project 636.3 for the Pacific fleet will be built on time, Deputy Prime Minister Yuri Borisov said. "(The deadline) is not delayed. Admiralty shipyard is operating rhythmically and will do everything on time," he said. The six submarines have to be handed over to the Pacific fleet in 2019, but it was reported the deadline had been moved to the autumn of 2020. The series is to be built in 2022.

A Project 636.3 submarine of the Russian Black Sea Fleet transiting in the Dutch EEZ. Royal Netherlands Navy picture.

Borisov said it takes close to 30 months to build one submarine. "They will go one after another," he said.

Project 636.3 submarines were designed by Rubin Bureau. In 2010-2016 six submarines were built for the Black Sea fleet. The construction of the second series of six submarines for the Pacific fleet began on June 28, 2017 when two submarines - the Petropavlovsk-Kamchatsky and the Volkhov were laid.

Project 636.3 is the third generation of diesel-electric submarines which are most noiseless in the world. They develop surface speed of 20 knots, submerge to 300 meters and have the cruising capacity of 45 days. The crew comprises 52 men, the underwater displacement is close to four thousand tons.

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