1/2/2024 0 Comments Russian submarine news![]() ![]() They are, "even by Western standards, an expensive boat," Mark Grove, a senior lecturer at the University of Lincoln's Maritime Studies Center at the Britannia Royal Naval College Dartmouth, U.K., told Newsweek in March. The Yasens are nuclear cruise missile submarines (SSGNs), and they are capable of carrying Russia's new Tsirkon, or Zircon, hypersonic missile, as well as long-range Kalibr cruise missiles, Geist said.īut experts say the Yasen-class submarines come with a hefty price tag. The Krasnoyarsk is the third of Russia's updated Yasen-M class submarines, which are "the crown jewel of the contemporary Russian Navy and perhaps the pinnacle of present-day Russian military technology," Edward Geist of the RAND research corporation previously told Newsweek. ![]() Moscow's navy had 10 Varshavyanka, or Improved Kilo-class, vessels, and one Lada undergoing testing. It had three Borei and two Borei-A class submarines, along with one Yasen and two Yasen-M class subs, according to this data. Newsweek has reached out to the Russian Defense Ministry for comment via email.Īccording to The Military Balance, the annual report produced by the International Institute for Strategic Studies (IISS) on the world's armed forces, Russia had 51 submarines at the start of 2023. A Borei-A class and a Yasen-M class submarine will enter service with the Russian military in the next six months, Aleksey Rakhmanov, the chief executive of Russian shipbuilder, the United States Corporation, told the Tass news agency on Wednesday. Russian nuclear submarine Yuri Dolgorukiy (NATO reporting name: SSBN "Borei", or "Dolgorukiy") is seen during the Navy Day Military parade July, 27, 2014 in Severomorsk. ![]()
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