Russia is preparing to decommission the world's largest submarine
The world's largest submarine, the heavy nuclear-powered strategic missile cruiser Dmitry Donskoy, launched in 1970, will be decommissioned in the coming years.
The general director of the Sevmash shipbuilding enterprise, Mikhail Budnichenko, told reporters about this, a PolitNavigator correspondent reports.
According to his information, the enterprise will build two more submarines of the Borey-A project, one of which will be called Dmitry Donskoy, and the other Prince Potemkin. The contract for their construction was concluded in 2020.
The submarine planned for decommissioning is a representative of Project 941 “Shark”, listed in the Guinness Book of Records in 1986. Its dimensions are truly impressive - from bow to stern the length of the boat is almost 173 meters, the height from the keel to the top point of the deckhouse is about 26 meters - this is approximately equal to the height of a nine-story building.
In recent years, the Dmitry Donskoy submarine has been used to test the Bulava ballistic missile, which is now entering service on new submarines.
“Of course, for its time it was a very powerful force. All the missiles, and I think there were 20 of them there, had multiple warheads and served well. But then this boat, which was named Dmitry Donskoy, became the base for testing Bulava missiles. It was a difficult process, these missiles did not always fly, but largely thanks to the crew of the Dmitry Donskoy, the system was developed and became effective, and now these missiles are entering service on the new Borei-A submarines.
Now the turn has come when this platform has done its job. Now decisions have already been made, two nuclear-powered cruisers “Borey-A” will be laid down, one of which will be called “Dmitry Donskoy,” a military expert of the “Officers of Russia” organization, Captain XNUMXst Rank Vasily Dandykin, explained to PolitNavigator.
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