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The Russian Navy builds some very capable submarines. The good news for NATO is that construction pace is glacial and will not be helped by even deeper economic sanctions.
See - https://twitter.com/NavyLookout/status/ ... 9329935361
And - https://flotprom.ru/2022/%D0%90%D0%B4%D ... 84%D0%B82/
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The U.S attack submarine in Russian Navy base Gadzhievo has been repainted to a Russian sub carrying a "Z"

"What a splendid mural has appeared in Gadzhievo," regional Governor Andrei Chibis exclaims after painters hastily redesigned the house wall in the Northern Fleet base.

See - https://thebarentsobserver.com/en/secur ... ussian-sub

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Meanwhile the BYKOVs are NOT feeling the love from the sov...err...Russian Navy........ :( DFO

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Here are some views of the super slippery AKULAs............ :) DFO
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World’s longest nuclear submarine handed over to the Russian Navy

The "Belgorod" special purpose submarine, carrier of the so-called doomsday Poseidon drones, will be in experimental operation with the Northern Fleet before later to serve in the Pacific Fleet.

An official press statement posted by the Sevmash submarine yard on Friday says the “Belgorod” (K-239) is a “research submarine”. In fact, the vessel is built to carry one of the craziest weapons of mass destruction mankind ever has seen: The Poseidon, an autonomous, nuclear-powered underwater drone that can deliver its nuclear payloads from deep under, at distances like crossing the Atlantic or Pacific Oceans.

Commander-in-Chief of the Russian Navy, Admiral Nikolai Evmenov, said:”.. this is a significant day for us” as ”… advanced achievements of science and the latest construction technologies were applied.”

“The submarine “Belgorod” opens up new opportunities for Russia in conducting various studies, allows conducting diverse scientific expeditions and rescue operations in the most remote areas of the World Ocean,” the Admiral stated.

Highlighting the research- and scientific work that now can be conducted by the Russian Navy in the world oceans, the statement also adds that the submarine can be used for search- and rescue operations in deep waters as it carries autonomous unmanned underwater vehicles.

Nothing in the statement mentions the Poseidon drone weapon purpose.

With the U.S. developing an anti-ballistic missile defense system, Russia started to develop a deep-diving response capability. The Poseidon is a 24-meter-long torpedo-shaped vehicle with an estimated range of 10,000 km and can travel at speeds of 100 knots down to a maximum depth of 1,000 meters. It is powered by a small nuclear reactor and could be armed with a megaton nuclear warhead.

The submarine is likely to carry six Poseidon drones. The submarine also serves as a mother vessel for a deep-diving midget nuclear-powered submarine, like the infamous Losharik, a mini-submarine that got the world’s attention in July 2019 when its batteries caught fire and all 14 officers on board died.

The “Belgorod” is built on a prolonged hull of what was originally meant to be an Oscar-II class multi-purpose submarine, a sister vessel to the ill-fated “Kursk” submarine that sank in the Barents Sea during a naval exercise in August 2000. The hull of the submarine was laid down in 1992, but it was first twenty years later, in 2012, that the Defense Ministry decided to use the hull to construct this giant special purpose vessel.

With a hull prolonged by 29 meters to 184-meters, the one-of-a-kind vessel is longer than the world’s largest submarine, the Soviet-built Typhoon-class.

The “Belgorod” was launched in April 2019 and sea trials started in the White Sea last summer.

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First Baltic Sea voyage for Russia’s 4th generation multi-purpose sub

The "Severodvinsk" sailed Danish waters Tuesday morning en route from the Kola Peninsula to St. Petersburg where the submarine will be on display at the Naval Parade.

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Pelican wrote: Sat Jul 09, 2022 11:06 pm BELGOROD - ALSO SEE - https://www.thedrive.com/the-war-zone/r ... hmCyxXKUyo
Russian Navy's massive submarine could set the stage for 'a new Cold War' in the oceans

The Russian Navy has taken delivery of what is the world's longest known submarine, one its maker touts as a research vessel -- but what others say is a platform for espionage and possibly nuclear weapons.

The Belgorod was turned over to the Russian Navy earlier this month in the port of Severodvinsk, according to the country's largest shipbuilder, Sevmash Shipyard.

Experts say its design is a modified version of Russia's Oscar II class guided-missile submarines, made longer with the aim to eventually accommodate the world's first nuclear-armed stealth torpedoes and equipment for intelligence gathering.

If the Belgorod can successfully add those new capabilities to the Russian fleet, it could in the next decade set the stage for a return to scenes of the Cold War under the ocean, with US and Russian subs tracking and hunting each other in tense face-offs.

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Russian Navy's SSBN Generalissimus Suvorov starts factory trials

According to information published by Tass on July 22, 2022, the Generalissimus Suvorov SSBN of Borey-A-class project 955A for the first time sailed out to the White Sea for factory trials.

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Pelican wrote: Sun Jul 24, 2022 5:37 pm
Pelican wrote: Sat Jul 09, 2022 11:06 pm BELGOROD - ALSO SEE - https://www.thedrive.com/the-war-zone/r ... hmCyxXKUyo
Russian Navy's massive submarine could set the stage for 'a new Cold War' in the oceans

The Russian Navy has taken delivery of what is the world's longest known submarine, one its maker touts as a research vessel -- but what others say is a platform for espionage and possibly nuclear weapons.

The Belgorod was turned over to the Russian Navy earlier this month in the port of Severodvinsk, according to the country's largest shipbuilder, Sevmash Shipyard.

Experts say its design is a modified version of Russia's Oscar II class guided-missile submarines, made longer with the aim to eventually accommodate the world's first nuclear-armed stealth torpedoes and equipment for intelligence gathering.

If the Belgorod can successfully add those new capabilities to the Russian fleet, it could in the next decade set the stage for a return to scenes of the Cold War under the ocean, with US and Russian subs tracking and hunting each other in tense face-offs.

Continues at - https://edition.cnn.com/2022/07/23/euro ... index.html

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See - https://interestingengineering.com/russ ... ds-largest - Link from Tim.
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