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Delivery of First Project 885M SSGN (Upgraded Yasen class) Kazan Submarine Delayed by One Year

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Naval Forces News - Russia
 
 
 
Delivery of First Project 885M SSGN (Upgraded Yasen class) Kazan Submarine Delayed by One Year
 
The first nuclear-powered cruise missile submarine (SSGN) of the upgraded project 885M (code Yasen-M), the Kazan, will be handed over to the Russian Navy not in 2017 as was initially reported, but in 2018, the press service of Sevmash Shipyard which builds the submarine told TASS.
     
The first nuclear-powered cruise missile submarine (SSGN) of the upgraded project 885M (code Yasen-M), the Kazan, will be handed over to the Russian Navy not in 2017 as was initially reported, but in 2018, the press service of Sevmash Shipyard which builds the submarine told TASS.
Russian Navy Project 885 Yasen-class Submarine Severodvinsk (K-560) underway
     
"The construction of Kazan and Prince Vladimir submarines is going according to schedule. They will be passed into Navy service in 2018," it said.

A military-defense source told TASS last autumn the transfer of Kazan would be delayed. Then Russian Navy Commander-in-Chief Admiral Viktor Chirkov and President of the United Shipbuilding Corporation Alexey Rakhmanov however said the military will get the submarine on time.

Kazan had its keel laid at Sevmash in 2009. It is the second vessel of project 885 and the first one of the upgraded project 885M class.

The first ship of class Project 885 nuclear-powered submarine Severodvinsk armed with missiles and torpedoes was laid down in 1993 and delivered to the Russian Armed Forces for operational evaluation in late 2013.

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Link to Project 885 Yasen-class technical datasheet