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.
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.
“...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??
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!
OK, I get it now. One is to replace the one that sunk. The second is for spare parts.
This a jobs program to produce the only products the labor force and economy are capable of
I just started watching a youtube channel called Sub Brief. The guy running it is an ex submarine sonar tech and calls himself “Jive Turkey”.
In this video he analyzes a recording of an SQS-53C, sent in by a viewer:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4DR-rIOp6aw
