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The Belgorod Project is aimed at the development of a multi-role submarine platform with wide range of intelligence capabilities, in addition to its combat role. Among the strategic aims that have influenced the re-design of the K-329 Belgorod is the desire to set up and exploit the Arctic shelf as a major geo-strategy objective for the Kremlin ...
The two ships speculated to carry the Poseidon are the Project 09852 modified Oscar-class submarine Belgorod and the Project 09851 Khabarovsk submarines. [24] [30] [42] [43] Oscar-class submarines could carry six Poseidon torpedoes at the same time for a total yield of up to 12-600 megatons. [44] [45]
The Project 09852 modified Oscar-class submarine Belgorod, was specially refitted beginning in 2012 in order to transport Losharik, in support of GUGI operations. The refit included both removing the cruise missile launch tube bay to make room for a new bay about 18 meters long that is capable of accommodating special operations submarines such ...
Satellite imagery published on February 23 shows Russian military deployments in various locations across Belgorod Oblast in western Russia, some less than 10 miles from the border with Ukraine ...
The Belgorod Project is aimed at the development of a multi-role submarine platform with wide range of intelligence capabilities, in addition to its combat role. Among the strategic aims that have influenced the re-design of the K-329 Belgorod is the desire to set up and exploit the Arctic shelf as a major geo-strategy objective for the Kremlin ...
It is estimated that Belgorod will be 184 metres (604 ft) long which would make it the longest submarine in the world. [22] [29] On 23 April 2019, Belgorod was floated out of a slipway during a ceremony at the Sevmash shipyard, watched by the President of Russia Vladimir Putin via a TV-link. Further work was to be completed afloat and the ...
In addition, there has been a renewed emphasis on submarine production with the introduction of nuclear-powered ballistic missile, nuclear-powered cruise missile as well as new classes of conventionally-powered attack submarines. As of 2019, this trend was forecast as likely to continue through the 2020s. [2]
Russian submarines have visited the North Pole region more than 300 times since then. Two nuclear submarines of the Northern Fleet made a journey under the Arctic ice cap and reached the Pacific Fleet for the first time in history in September 1963. [6] More than 25 Soviet submarines did the same in the following years.