the Head of the United shipbuilding Corporation (USC) Alexey Rakhmanov said that in December 2020 Russian Navy will receive a head nuclear submarine “Kazan” (modernized project 885M — “Ash-M”). Previously it was assumed that the submarine will be forfeit to the fleet in 2019, but then the date was postponed because of the protracted trials.
Just improved project “Yasen-M” build 4 of the submarine “Kazan”, “Novosibirsk”, “Krasnoyarsk” and “Arkhangelsk”, reminds RIA Novosti. They have a displacement of 13.8 thousand tonnes, can dive to a depth of 520 metres. Submarine accommodates 64-person crew. It can reach speeds of 31 knots (about 57.5 km / h). Autonomy – a hundred days.
armed submarines – cruise missiles “Caliber” and “Onyx”, the 533 mm torpedoes and mines.
