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First Russian Project 885M Yasen-M class Submarine Delivery Pushed Back to 2018

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Naval Forces News - Russia
 
 
 
First Russian Project 885M Yasen-M class Submarine Delivery Pushed Back to 2018
 
According to Russian state owned news agency TASS citing an industry source, the Russian Navy will receive the Kazan nuclear submarine one year behind the schedule - in 2018. Kazan is set to be the first Project 885M Yasen-M class, an upgraded variant of the Yasen-class.
     
According to Russian state owned news agency TASS citing an industry source, the Russian Navy will receive the Kazan nuclear submarine one year behind the schedule - in 2018. Kazan is set to be the first Project 885M Yasen-M class, an upgraded variant of the Yasen class.
Improved Russian Yasen-class Nuclear Attack Submarine Kazan Delivery pushed back to 2018
     
"Under the contract, the Kazan sub is to be delivered to the Navy in 2017, but now it is clear that this deadline will not be met. The Navy will receive this nuclear submarine only in 2018," the source said.

According to him, the reason for another delay is "the novelty of the project." "The head boat is always built much longer than a series one," said the source. "In addition, the industry capacity, including in terms of import substitution, are insufficient, as the Kazan sub should have exclusively Russian-made electronic equipment and other ‘stuff.’"

Meanwhile, the CEO of the Sevmash shipyard that is building the Kazan submarine, Mikhail Budnichenko, told reporters this summer that the submarine would be delivered to the customer in 2017.

The head boat of Project 855 - the Severodvinsk - was received by the Russian Navy in 2014. The second Yasen class submarine has been laid down under the modernised project, the same as the Novosibirsk and the Krasnoyarsk subs in 2013 and 2015.