Posted on 06/04/2023 8:31:35 AM PDT by dennisw
It all came down to costs, and Moscow apparently couldn't afford to keep operating what had been the world's largest nuclear-powered submarine.
In February, Russia decommissioned its Project 941 Akula-class (NATO reporting name Typhoon) heavy nuclear-powered missile-carrying submarine cruiser Dmitry Donskoy years earlier than expected. It was just two years ago that the Kremlin announced the boat would remain in service until at least 2026, even as its role was reportedly limited to that of a weapons test platform for the new Borei-, Borei-A-, Yasen- and Yasen-M-class submarines
However, this week, it was confirmed that Dmitry Donskoi was decommissioned in February due to cost considerations. It had served for more than 40 years in the Northern Fleet.
"The Dmitry Donskoi could no longer be in service due to its spent nuclear core," a source in the Russian Navy told state media outlet Tass on Thursday.
The Dmitry Donskoi’s Career Initially designated the TK-208, she was the lead vessel of the Soviet third-generation Akula-class (Russian for "Shark"). She entered service in 1981 with the Soviet Navy, and after a 12-year overhaul and refit that began in 1990, she reentered service in 2002 as the Dmitry Donskoi, named after the Grand Duke of Moscow Dmitry Donskoy (1359–1389), the reputed founder of Moscow.
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LOL. Somebody had to carry that torch.
Patron Saints of Congressional appropriations? Let's see, there was the William H Bates, the Glennard P. Lipbscomb, The L. Mendel Rivers and the Richard B Russell who was so great a Saint that they also named a Congressional Office Building after him.
There is a lesson in that. Most of our manufacturing is offshored to China.
those are 688’s
Yup. Flight I’s. SSN-701 & 711.
Not only that the reactors pump out significantly more power than the Nimitz class, for the new emals launch system and for supposed future electromagnetic weapons.
Yes, the reactors are running. It's for training engineering personnel on a real naval reactor plant before they hit the fleet. I don't know what power the MTS's are capable of producing, but I doubt they are restricted to low power. The land based naval reactor training units use a water brake to be able to go to 100% power.
Reactor power follows steam demand, so I'd imagine the La Jolla and San Fran are limited to whatever the screw shaft is now connected to and how much torque it can handle.
And a full day later, this typo at MSN has yet to be corrected.
Yes, Akula is not a Typhoon. Typhoon is an SSBN.
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