Posted on 07/20/2020 9:11:46 PM PDT by texas booster
It was a great day for the Russian Navy. On the 20th July, three shipyards laid down the keel of six new vessels. Among them were the “Voronezh” and the “Vladivostok”, two Yasen-M class submariners.
The subs are the 8th and 9th vessels of the Yasen class. Like their sister ships, the “Voronezh” and the “Vladivostok” are built at the Sevmash yard in Severodvinsk, northern Russia.
“The Navy has always staunchly protected the borders of Russia [and] in our days it plays an exclusively important role in providing Russian security, it is a firm guardian of national interests, helps support the strategic balance and world stability,” President Vladimir Putin said in a speech delivered at the Zaliv Yard in the Crimea.
While the Zaliv will build two landing ships, the Severnaya yard in St.Petersburg will build two new frigates and the Sevmash - two submarines.
According to the President, Russia has over the last eight years built as many as 200 new naval vessels. By year 2027, at least 70 percent of the country’s Navy’s will be modern ships, he assured.
The “Voronezh” and “Vladivostok” are believed to be ready for hand-over to the Navy in year 2027 and 2028. They will most likely serve in the Northern Fleet and Pacific Fleet respectively. Both vessels will be equipped with the Kalibr-M cruise missiles, as well as the Tsirkon hypersonic missile.
“Today, we are laying down the keel of ships with hypersonic weapons, on which the future of the Russian submarine fleet leans,” General Director of Sevmash Mikhail Budnichenko said in the ceremony.
(Excerpt) Read more at thebarentsobserver.com ...
Yasen and Yasen-M class are the first 4th generation multi-purpose submarines for the Russian navy. They are said to be both the most expensive and technically advanced in the Russian Navy.
And from National Interest.org:
The Yasen class measures 390 feet long and displaces 13,800 tons. It has a crew of just ninety, far fewer than its American equivalents, suggesting a high level of automation is built into the submarine. In shape it resembles the earlier Akula class, but much longer behind the conning tower and a hump to accommodate vertical launch tubes. According to the authoritative Combat Fleets of the World, Severodvinsk has a OK-650KPM two-hundred-megawatt nuclear reactor, good for the life of the boat, which drives it to speeds of up to sixteen knots surfaced and thirty-one knots submerged. Other reports peg it slightly faster, at thirty-five knots. It can run quiet underwater at twenty knots.
Severodvinsk’s sensor suite consists of a Irtysh-Amfora sonar system, with a bow-mounted spherical sonar array, flank sonar arrays and a towed array for rearward detection. It has a MRK-50 Albatross (Snoop Pair) navigation/surface search radar and features a Rim Hat electronic support/countermeasures measures suite.
Armament for the submarines consists of four standard-diameter 5,333-millimeter torpedo tubes and four 650-millimeter torpedo tubes. The torpedo tubes can accommodate homing torpedoes and 3M54 Klub missiles, which are available in both antiship, land attack and antisubmarine versions. For even more firepower, the Yasen boats are each equipped with twenty-four vertical launch missile tubes behind the conning tower, each capable of carrying P-800 Oniks ramjet-powered supersonic antiship missiles.
According to the President, Russia has over the last eight years built as many as 200 new naval vessels. By year 2027, at least 70 percent of the country’s Navy’s will be modern ships, he assured.
When you get away from the fan boi youtube junk, this is a really good submarine. While being aboard new ships no longer means what it used to, there is no denying that Putin is moving forward on multiple military fronts.
The real question is how hard do they train and how often can they put to sea. Unlike land forces, submariners need to be pretty bright and dedicated to stay alive under many tons of seawater.
That does tend to sharpen the mind.
From the same source, before we get the usual scoffing idiots:
In October 2014, one of the U.S. Navy’s top submarine officers, Rear Admiral Dave Johnson, the Naval Sea Systems Command’s program executive officer (PEO) for submarines, said “We’ll be facing tough potential opponents. One only has to look at the Severodvinsk, Russia’s version of a nuclear guided missile submarine (SSGN). I am so impressed with this ship that I had Carderock build a model from unclassified data.”
According to 60 Minutes, unnamed Pentagon officials claimed that Severodvinsk “slipped into the Atlantic Ocean and for weeks evaded all of the attempts to find her” in the summer 2018.
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Russia actually has had heavily automated (as in crew-requirement-reducing machinery, not as in unmanned operation) subs out for several decades, with the first widespread example being the Alfa class boats, which don’t seem to have had many show-stopping problems with their automation. The US, not so much.
And the Yasen-Ms are even quieter than the Yasen-class Severodvinsk. Something to think about.
Russia is NOT our friend. Remember that Obama wanted some more time before he would make new arrangements with Putin/Russia.
Wonder just what those “arrangements/leeway” were? I call it treason.
Also worth noting that the Russian Navy’s latest surface combatant class, the Admiral Gorshkov class frigate, had the class lead successfully circumnavigate the globe on its first try without need of a dockyard.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Admiral_Gorshkov-class_frigate
Meanwhile, neither of our LCS class lead ships were able to do this, and neither was the DD1000 Zumwalt class lead. All had major problems requiring dockyard work. Our second Zumwalt had total systems failure and drifted out of control in the Panama Canal before it ran aground.
Again - something to think about.
“...They are said to be both the most expensive and technically advanced in the Russian Navy....”
Most expensive, eh? Where is Russia getting all the money to pay for these boats?? Hmmmm??
Probably more things in line with killing the F-22 early and dumping money and time into boondoggles like the F-35 and the stupid LCS programs. Bush did damage of his own to our forces as well, so essentially we’ve been marking time for the better part of two decades and are desperately having to play catch-up now.
That is quite a tail on that beast.
Expensive is relative. Their estimated unit cost is $800 million, where the crappy nearly useless LCS class ships we bought cost between $400 million and $1.8 billion apiece.
As for where they’re getting the money? Petroleum sales are going back up and they do cheerfully sell weapon systems to the world market in large numbers. They also have access to precious metals and such in Siberia.
The cover hides a pump-jet propulsion system as is used on our counterpart Seawolf and Virginias as well as the LCS. Pump-jet has become popular in recent years in civilian applications: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pump-jet
Thankfully we spend TEN TIMES AS MUCH on our military, so we’re building 10 times as many new subs and planes.
But nice try, Russia!
Ah, so. A submarine jet-ski water jet of sorts? A high and low speed option with prop or water jet only? Reverse does not work well for water jets as I recall.
Most likely it’s a ducted propeller type. However, they’re (correctly) keeping their adversaries guessing by hiding what it looks like - because among other things, you can then computer model it based on photos and figure out weaknesses.
Hey, it's their billion dollars. Just drop a few of the neodymium magnet sheets onto the hull on the way out to sea.
We spend ten times more - but we also buy useless crap like the LCS, cripple our DD1000 (which doesn’t have a working gun because we refused to buy ammo for it) and such like, so we pour a lot of that money down holes.
Also, we’re *not* building “ten times” as many new subs and planes.
Uh.... you do know we did the same on ours, right?
https://news.usni.org/wp-content/uploads/2014/11/121101-N-ZZ999-205.jpg
That’s the Virginia-class attack submarine Minnesota (SSN-783) under construction in 2012.
Hm, looks like flat surfaces that cavitate if used more than few degrees.
I am sure it rides a lot lower in the water surfaced and underway so the fan is under water.
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