Russia delivering a nuclear submarine to the Navy postponed to 2013

The nuclear submarine Severodvinsk Russian attack will be presented to the Russian army in 2013 instead of 2012, announced in Moscow on Friday the head of department at the Russian Ministry of Defense Andrei Vernigora.

"The submarine passes trials factory, it is currently Wed I think it will not be delivered to the army in 2012, but in 2013. Submarine is still undergoing tests approval in the White Sea. contractor The work is behind schedule due to the late delivery of equipment by its partners. This has influenced the date of delivery of the submarine, "said M.Vernigora RIA Novosti.

Sevmach the Russian shipyard in Severodvinsk (north) announced last August that he had put the submarine Severodvinsk (855 Iassen project) to the Navy before the end of 2012.

The submarine Severodvinsk multipurpose attack, the first of eight SNA Iassen Project 855 was docked in 1993. In September 2011, he spent his first sea trials of the submarine is 120 m long and 13 m wide has a light displacement 9700 tons and armed with a laden displacement of over 13,500 tons. It is distinguished by a high speed (33 knots

maximum) and can dive to a depth of 600 m. The crew of the submarine will consist of 90 men, including 32 officers. The Severodvinsk is equipped with cruise missiles and Oniks Kalibr long-range anti-ship missiles, torpedoes and mines.

Delivery of a nuclear submarine in the Russian army postponed

The first nuclear submarine ballistic missile Project 955 Borei class, the Yury Dolgoruky, will be delivered to the Russian Navy in 2013 and not in 2012 as originally planned, said to reporters Monday the Russian Minister of Defense Anatoly Serdyukov .

"We expect that the first nuclear submarine Yury Dolgoruky Borei class is adopted by the army in 2013," said the minister after a meeting of the committee of the State Duma (lower house of parliament Russian) in charge of the defense.

Serdyukov was also hoped that the Alexander Nevski, the second submarine of Borei class, would be deployed in the Pacific in 2014.

Capable of firing ballistic missiles Bulava , submarines Borei class form the basis of strategic Russian Maritime Forces after the disposal of submarine classes Akoula (Typhoon according to NATO code) and Kalmar and Mourena (Delta and Delta-3-4 according to NATO) in 2018.

Sevmach the Russian shipyard in Severodvinsk (north) currently hosts three submarines of this class in various stages of construction (Yuri Dolgoruky, Alexander Nevsky and Vladimir Monomakh). The fourth submarine, named unofficially Sviatitel Nikolai (Saint Nicolas), will be the first ship new Borei class A, whose characteristics are superior to those of the Borei class. Total Sevmach plans to build eight submarines Borei and Borei class A.