The first submarine Project 885m, the Kazan, should be delivered to the Russian Navy in the 2016.
The main ship of the Yasen class, the Severodvinsk submarine, was commissioned earlier this year.
Yasen class submarines
The "K-329 Severodvinsk", the first Russian attack submarine project 885 class "Yasen", completed the final tests last December and was delivered to the Navy with many doubts.
A government commission set up for the occasion then gave the green light for commissioning with some improvements that would have been adopted in subsequent Yasen. According to some sources not confirmed in fact, the General Staff of the Navy would not have been fully convinced of the "Severodvinsk" for technical problems not better specified.
The K-329 has successfully completed four sea trials.
The "Yasen" class multiplayer nuclear submarine has a submarine displacement of 13.800 tonnes. It is long 119 meters, with a maximum speed of thirty-one dives in diving. It can dive up to 600 meters, although the operating depth is 500 meters. It has a crew of ninety men, including thirty-two officers.
The "Yasen" class submarines are considered (by the Russians) as the best boats on the planet. There is nothing comparable - they have always declared by the Russian government - to our fourth-generation submarines.
Some features, the few that have been leaked to date, speak of a double hull in non-magnetic steel in order to minimize the acoustic trace and, therefore, a greater survival capacity of the boat compared to the already very fearsome Akula I / II.
It is a single-shaft submarine powered by an OK-650V thermo-nuclear reactor from 200 MW water-cooled. The command tower has an oval hydrodynamic shape, while the hull is divided into ten compartments.
The Yasen class (seven units planned in addition to Severodvinsk) will also be equipped with Caliber supersonic cruise missiles with a flight range of approximately 2500 km. A missile almost impossible to break down considering its ability to deflect flight path, altitude and the hypersonic speed of the warhead.
A weapon - they specify from the United Shipbuilding Corporation - designed primarily to counter aircraft carriers.
The contracts signed by the Russian Defense Ministry and the United Shipbuilding Corporation as part of the arms procurement program include equipment for seven other "Yasen" class submarines within the 2020. The improvements proposed by the Russian Navy commission have already been implemented in the second, third and fourth submarines of the series: the "Kazan", the "Novosibirsk" and the "Krasnoyarsk". They will be part of the "Project 885m", the updated Yasen-M class.
The Russian navy currently has operational 60 submarines. For nuclear deterrence Moscow has 10 nuclear submarines ready for combat. 30 is the attack submarine. The rest, finally, are diesel-powered and perform other specific tasks.
Franco Iacch
