2024 Author: Howard Calhoun | [email protected]. Last modified: 2023-12-17 10:16
Not so long ago, the US Department of Defense made a statement that in the event of a non-nuclear global conflict, their Navy will be able to detect and neutralize all Russian nuclear submarines within 15-20 days. Leaving aside the political meaning of this statement and the hypothetical nature of the situation itself, attention should be paid to the time allotted for this task. It takes a disproportionately shorter time, measured in minutes, to bring a missile into combat condition, therefore, the discussion about the capabilities of US NAVY is purely theoretical.
The entire submarine fleet of the Russian Federation today (according to published data) consists of about six dozen units of military equipment of various displacement, purpose and type of power plant. Since the service life of ships is measured in decades, most of them were built back in the Soviet years.
The basis of our country's defense is the nuclear triad, it consists of the Strategic Missile Forces, long-range bomber aircraft and nuclear submarines of Russia. At the same time, the division is conditional, ballistic missiles are based on ships, and cruise steel carriersaircraft.
The Northern and Pacific Fleets are called upon to play the most important role in the maritime strategy. This is due to their possibility of almost unlimited access to any area of the world's oceans. They include all submarines of project 667, which are the basis of the strategic naval nuclear forces of the Russian Federation.
Russian nuclear submarines are divided according to their purpose into:
- missile carriers with ballistic delivery vehicles (15 pieces);
- cruise missile carriers (9 pieces);
- carriers of torpedoes with a special charge (12 pcs.);
- special submarines (7 pcs.).
Underwater "Sharks" (Project 941), the world's largest submarines, are on alert.
The new Russian nuclear submarine "Yuri Dolgoruky" (pr. "Borey", No. 955, displacement 24 thousand tons) is equipped with the most modern Bulava-M missiles, like the modernized "Dmitry Donskoy". Both ships become the basis of the series. Thus, the nuclear submarine "Vladimir Monomakh", "Alexander Nevsky" and five more ships of project 955, according to the plan, should be introduced into the Northern Fleet in the next couple of years. The main feature of this series is its low noise and special anti-hydroacoustic coatings, which make it very difficult for sonar to detect.
Other modern Russian nuclear submarines are represented by the Yasen project (855). The first of the five, Severodvinsk, laid down in 1993, has a displacement of 14 thousand tons. The speed is 31 knots under water (nuclear submarines move faster in a submergedposition). The main weapons of the ships of this project are high-speed missile torpedoes.
Today the main force of the submarine fleet is the boats of the Shark project (project 941), Kalmar (project 667 BDR), Dolphin (project 667 BDRM), Antey (project 949A) and "Pike-B" (project 971). Rumors spread by NATO representatives that they are easy to detect are somewhat exaggerated. Sometimes they deliberately surface in areas of anti-submarine exercises of the North Atlantic fleets to show their ste alth capabilities.
However, this Soviet technology will be replaced in the next decade by new fourth-generation Russian nuclear submarines of the Yasen and Borey class. Update imminent.
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