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The Kilo-class submarines are a group of diesel-electric attack submarines designed by the Rubin Design Bureau [1] [3] [4] in the Soviet Union in the 1970s and built originally for the Soviet Navy. The first version had the Soviet designation Project 877 Paltus ( Russian : Па́лтус , meaning " halibut "), NATO reporting name Kilo . [ 5 ]
The Paltus-class submarine is a Russian special purpose mini-submarine [1] of project 1851.1. Two boats were completed - AS-21 and AS-35 as a follow-up of the single "X-Ray"-class boat AS-23 (Project 1851). They are both part of the 29th special submarine squadron at Olenya Guba.
Pravda-class submarine: Serie IV 3 Squadron submarines. Malyutka-class submarine: Series VI, VI-bis, XII, XV 110 Small submarines for coastal patrols. S-class submarine: Series IX, IX-bis 41 Medium submarines, built using German project (early version of Type IX). K-class submarine: Serie XIV 11 Cruiser submarines with combined arms. TS-class ...
Oscar class (Project 949 Granit/Project 949A Antey) Soviet Union / Russia: 19,400 Russian Navy: 6: 14: 0: 2 being modernized, 1 inactive/reserve, 4 scrapped, 1 lost at sea: Shang class (Type 093G) People's Republic of China: 7,000 People's Liberation Army Navy: 1: 1: 0: Only G variant of the Shang-class submarine is capable of launching guided ...
Excluding special underwater craft such as midget submarines, the German Kriegsmarine lost 765 submarines to all causes during World War II [6] in addition to 150 submarines scuttled in German-held ports in northern Europe during the first week of May 1945 by their crews to avoid surrendering them to the Allies, [7] while Japan lost 129 ...
Submarines of World War II represented a wide range of capabilities with many types of varying specifications produced by dozens of countries. The principle countries engaged in submarine warfare during the war were Germany, Italy, Japan, the United States, United Kingdom and the Soviet Union. The Italian and Soviet fleets were the largest.
Submarine Royal Navy: 1944–1945 1,620 2 / 18 Andrea Doria: Battleship Regia Marina: 1913 29,345 (WW2 after modification) 2 Andromeda: Attack cargo ship United States Navy: 1943–1945 6,761 30 Aoba: Heavy cruiser Imperial Japanese Navy: 1926 7100 2 Aquila (a.k.a. Vifor) Scout cruiser Romanian Naval Forces: 1917–1918 1,594 2 Archimede: Submarine
It was planned for her to be reactivated in 2002 to replace the Yankee 'Stretch'-class KS-411. KS-411 had been the mothership for the Paltus-class mini submarines, which are believed to be used for a combination of oceanographic research, search and rescue, and underwater intelligence-gathering. [2] Due to lack of funds this plan was postponed.