Sunday 30 September 2018

Russian nuclear submarine "Kazan" the modernized project 885M undergoing sea trails

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The first modernized "Ash" was brought to sea trials


The multipurpose nuclear submarine "Kazan" of the modernized project 885M, which was being built on Sevmash since 2009, was brought to the factory sea trials. Mil.Press FlotProm was informed about this by a source close to Severodvinsk shipbuilding.

The ship went to sea on Monday, September 24. The press service of Sevmash did not comment on this event. 

In March 2018, the president of the United Shipbuilding Corporation, Alexei Rakhmanov, announced the shift in the deadline for the surrender of Kazan to the right. According to the head of USC, to test a large number of weapons systems may not even be enough for two periods of navigation. Thus, the ship will be handed over to the fleet not earlier than 2019. 

"Kazan" - the first serial boat of the project "Ash-M". It was launched in March 2017. Sevmash shipyards are also working on multipurpose nuclear submarines for the upgraded project 885M Novosibirsk, Krasnoyarsk, Arkhangelsk, Perm and Ulyanovsk. 

"Yaseni" differ from other multipurpose submarines, in particular, the arrangement of torpedo tubes. They were placed side by side behind the compartment of the central post. The armament of the ships are cruise missiles "Onyx" and "Caliber", self-guided torpedoes. Underwater displacement "Yaseney" is 13.8 thousand tons, they are able to dive to 600 meters and speed up to 30 knots.

Source: flotprom.ru

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