China and Russia are both 20 to 30 years ahead of us in hypersonic cruise missiles, icbms, and multilayered air defense. We have destroyed ourselves with political BS, wokeism, cancel culture and self loathing and our enemys and advisories have noticed this and spoke on it. People are so ignorant its not even Funny. Thats why a swedish sub of russian design, diesel electric which stores liquid oxygen and can stay out almost as long as nuclear sub now, was able to run rings around american subs and destroyers and carriers in excercises. Peter is also a Contributing Writer for Forbes. He regularly writes about military hardware, and is the author of several books on military headgear including A Gallery of Military Headdress, which is available on. Now a Senior Editor for 1945, Peter Suciu is a Michigan-based writer who has contributed to more than four dozen magazines, newspapers and websites.
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While the Russian attack submarines were developed back in the 1970s, the boats that have been modernized are expected to remain in service until the end of the 2030s or later. The sonar signal processor can detect and automatically classify targets as well as reject spurious acoustic noise sources and compensate for variable acoustic conditions. Moreover, the sonar system can also be used in a passive, listening mode for the detection of hostile sonars. It can provide the range, relative bearing and range rate. While the ships have an unlimited range, endurance is reported to be around 100 days.Įach of the boats is fitted with the MGK 540 sonar system, which provides automatic target detection in broad and narrow-band modes by active sonar. The Akula-class has a maximum speed of 10 knots surfaced and 28-35 knots submerged. The submarines are powered by a 190 MW OK-650B/OK-650M pressurized water nuclear reactor, OK-7 steam turbine, which provides 43,000 hp (32 MW) to a seven-bladed propeller. In 2016, it was announced that Moscow had plans to upgrade its Akula-class fleet with the 3M-54 Kalibr missiles.
The Akula can launch a range of anti-submarine and anti-surface vessel torpedoes, as well as the Granit (NATO designation: SS-N-21 Sampson) cruise missile, which has a range of about 3,000km and it can deliver a 200kt warhead. Construction of the later boats was often suspended at times due to a lack of funds during Russia’s economic crisis. Seven Akula I submarines were commissioned between 19 while three Improved Akula boats entered service between 19. Five additional hulls were laid down, but some were canceled during construction and two of the hulls were used in the completion of the Borei-class nuclear-powered ballistic submarines Yury Dolgoruky and Alexander Nevsky. This essentially allowed more freedom in the design of the exterior hull shape, which resulted in a submarine with more reserve buoyancy than western attack submarines of the era.įifteen of a planned twenty submarines were built and completed by the Amur Shipbuilding Plant Joint Stock Company at Komsomolsk-on-Amur and by Sevmash at the Severodvinsk shipbuilding yard. Akula incorporates a double hull system composed of an inner pressure hull and an outer “light” hull. It was also the only completed Akula II, an improved version of the Cold War-era Soviet-designed vessels.ĭesigned in the late 1970s and early 1980s, the Project 971 – not to be confused with the Soviet Akula-class SSBN (NATO reporting name Typhoon) – first entered production in 1983.
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It was the most recent boat in the series of Project 971 Shchuka-B (NATO reporting name Akula) nuclear-powered attack submarines (SSNs) to complete the modernization and refit. In the spring of 2020, K-147 Vepr re-entered service with the Russian Navy’s Northern Fleet.
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