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.
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.