The Pacific Fleet will receive the first class submarine Yasen between the end of the 2017 and the beginning of the 2018. This is what they communicate from the Russian admiralty.
The 'Kazan', which will present substantial improvements to the leader 'Severodvinsk' Project 885, is in training with the Northern Fleet.
The "K-329 Severodvinsk", the first Russian attack submarine project 885 class "Yasen", completed the final tests in December of the 2013 and was delivered to the Navy with many perplexities. A government commission set up for the occasion then gave the go-ahead for commissioning with some improvements that would have been adopted in subsequent Yasen. The Naval Staff would not have been fully convinced of the "Severodvinsk" for unspecified technical problems.
The "Yasen" class multirole nuclear attack submarine has an underwater displacement of 13.800 tons. It is long of 119 meters, with a maximum speed of thirty one knots in immersion. It can dive up to 600 meters, even if the operating depth is on the 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 - have always declared by the Russian government - to our fourth-generation submarines.
Some features, the few to date leaked, speak of a double non-magnetic steel hull in order to minimize the acoustic trace and, therefore, a greater survival capacity of the boat compared to the already extremely 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. I class Yasen (seven units planned in addition to Severodvinsk) will also be equipped with supersonic cruise missiles Kalibr with a flight range of approximately 2500 km. The contracts signed by the Russian Ministry of Defense and the United Shipbuilding Corporation as part of the weapons systems 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 class Yasen-M updated.
(photo: TASS)
