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Russia’s Novorossiysk Submarine Ready to Join Black Sea Fleet After Cruise Missile Test
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Russia’s Novorossiysk Submarine Ready to Join Black Sea Fleet
After Cruise Missile Test
The Novorossiysk, Russia's new Project 636 (Varshavyanka) diesel-electric
submarine (SSK) has completed trials in the Northern Fleet and is ready
to sail to the Black Sea to its permanent base, Northern Fleet acting
spokesman, Captain 2nd Rank Andrei Luzik said on Tuesday.
Russian Navy B-261 Novorossiysk test-launched a 3M-54 SS-N-27A (NATO
codename "Sizzler") cruise missile from the Barents Sea against
a target at the Chizha firing range in the Arkhangelsk region. It is
now ready to join the Black Sea Fleet. Picture: Korabli.eu
The Novorossiysk
submarine has completed its trials with a cruise missile launch from
the Barents Sea against a target at the Chizha firing range in the Arkhangelsk
region in north Russia, he said.
"Today the crew has completed a cycle of the ship’s basic
preparation, replenished provisions and is fully prepared to make an
inter-fleet passage from the Barents to the Black Sea to its permanent
base in Novorossiysk," the spokesman said.
During the period of its stay in the Northern Fleet from November last
year, the submarine successfully performed its submersion to the maximum
depth and the check of its armament and technical means while carrying
out live torpedo and missile launches in the Barents Sea, the spokesman
said.