Putin Expands Russia's Nuclear Submarine Fleet as NATO Sounds Alarm

[Boats]

Putin Expands Russia's Nuclear Submarine Fleet as NATO Sounds Alarm
By: Isabel Van Brugen - News Week & World News 02-27-23 8:49 AM
Re: https://www.newsweek.com/putin-russi...4025?piano_t=1

The Russian Navy will be replenished with two new nuclear submarines by the end of the year, an official has said.

Alexei Rakhmanov, the head of Saint Petersburg-based United Shipbuilding Corporation, made the announcement in an interview with Russia's state-run news agency RIA Novosti published on Monday.

He said Sevmash, Russia's largest shipbuilding corporation and the country's only producer of nuclear-powered submarines, will give the Russian Navy two of the newest submarines—the strategic Imperator Alexander III, and the multi-purpose Krasnoyarsk.

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Russian nuclear submarine Yuri Dolgorukiy (NATO reporting name: SSBN "Borei", or "Dolgorukiy") during the Navy Day Military parade on July 27, 2014, in Severomorsk. The Russian Navy will be replenished with two new nuclear submarines by the end of the year.
By: SASHA MORDOVETS/GETTY IMAGES

[Person note: That Russian sub looks archaic. (but still deadly) - Boats]

Russia first set the Imperator Alexander III afloat on December 29, with President Vladimir Putin partaking in the ceremony. According to Russia's state-run news agency Tass, the Borei class submarine is capable of carrying 16 Bulava inter-continental ballistic missiles.

Sevmash's CEO told Tass in an interview published on November 1 that the Krasnoyarsk was undergoing sea trials.

NATO militaries are increasingly sounding the alarm over the activity of Russia's submarine fleet amid the ongoing war in Ukraine, Business Insider reported. French President Emmanuel Macron said on January 20 he wanted his country to "acquire a capacity to control the seabed" to depths of 19,600 feet, to protect "critical underwater infrastructure."

Russia has been working to improve its submarine fleet since the collapse of the Soviet Union. Putin said in December that the country would be building more nuclear-powered submarines, "which will ensure Russia's security for decades to come."

"Sevmash has picked up a rhythm, thanks to which it is now again handing over to the customer one or two nuclear submarines a year," Rakhmanov told RIA Novosti.

Rakhmanov separately told Russian state-owned news agency Sputnik that the Russian navy will receive four new warships by July.

"A number of orders have been transferred for this year, including the non-nuclear submarine Kronstadt, the Admiral Golovko frigate, as well as corvettes Mercury and Rezkiy [Sharp]. All these ships will be handed over to the fleet in the first half of the year," Rakhmanov said.

In April 2022, Russia lost the flagship of its Black Sea Fleet, the Moskva missile cruiser. It sank hours after Ukraine claimed to have dealt significant damage to the vessel with a missile strike. Russia denied the claims, saying that any damage was caused by fire on board that led to some ammunition detonating.

[The Pentagon later said that it had concluded Ukraine struck the Russian warship with a missile, causing it to sink. "Wow" - I didn't hear about that until now - Boats].

Andrei Illarionov, an economist and former policy adviser to Putin, said at the time that the loss of the Moskva warship would have been a "very, very painful blow" for the Russian military.

[Someone posted: I'm reminded of the Kursk incident.]

Comments by others - see below;

1. Russian ship-building is particularly prone to graft and corruption; we all saw what happened with the sinking of the Kursk, the Moskva being a barely-functional hulk painted over to look good, and of course the perpetually-on-fire aircraft carrier.
By: The Russian natives...

2. Correction: not 2 more subs but 3... one was already delivered - the Moskva, the first of it's class: "convertible submarine"

3. Oh, good. More radioactive Russian junk on the ocean floor.
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4. Russian nuclear submarines were always known to be noisy and easily trackable.
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They were always marked by NATO when they travelled around the world.
Russians know it and for this reason, the Russians had developed a land-based system called as "dead hand" as a fourth nuclear option in case all other ...
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5. Russians know they can't win any conventional war against NATO.

Nuclear submarines are not meant for deployment in black sea. They are only meant for nuclear war in Pacific or Atlantic.
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Compared to Pacific and Atlantic oceans, the black sea is just a saltwater lake.
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6: Russia’s Navy has proven to be as inept as the rest of Russia’s military.
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7. It takes years to properly sort out a nuclear submarine, given Ratzi competence levels probably decades. The last time they test fired one of their alleged wonder torpedoes with one it sank itself.
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Closing note: Well; as we can all see and read - Russia really hasn't much in submarine services.
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