Poseidon carrier Submarines

Head of "Sevmash": "Poseidon" carrier of nuclear submarine "Khabarovsk" will be launched no earlier than 2021

KUBINKA / Moscow region /, August 23. / TASS /. The carrier of the Poseidon unmanned underwater vehicles, the Project 09851 Khabarovsk nuclear submarine, will be launched no earlier than 2021. Sevmash general director Mikhail Budnichenko told TASS about it on Sunday.

"The descent of Khabarovsk was not planned at all for 2020," he said on the sidelines of the Army 2020 International Military-Technical Forum.

"Khabarovsk" is the second carrier of "Poseidons". The first - the nuclear submarine "Belgorod" of project 09852 - was launched on April 23, 2019. Its transfer to the fleet was planned for September this year. Initially, the submarine was built according to project 949A, but later it was re-laid down according to a special project. Both "Belgorod" and "Khabarovsk" must carry six Poseidon vehicles.

For the first time, Russian President Vladimir Putin announced the creation of an underwater vehicle, later named Poseidon, in his message to the Federal Assembly in March 2018. According to the president, such drones can be equipped with both conventional and nuclear charges, which will allow them to hit a wide range of targets. The drone should get unlimited cruising range and working depth of more than 1 km.

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Another delay of the Chabarovsk project.

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The Ulyanovsk nuclear submarine, the third carrier of the Poseidon nuclear submarine system, is preparing for hydraulic tests at Sevmash.

Now the construction of the ship's hull is being completed, its hydraulic tests will begin in the near future, - a source in the shipbuilding industry told TASS . He added that Ulyanovsk - unlike Belgorod and Khabarovsk - will be commissioned for the first time as a single complex along with weapons. The transfer of the ship to the fleet will take place until 2027.

In 2018, Vladimir Putin announced a nuclear super torpedo with a thermonuclear warhead developed in Russia. Later, some characteristics of the complex appeared in open sources: the length of the underwater vehicle is 20 meters, the diameter is 1.8 m, and the mass is about 100 tons. The operating range is not limited, the immersion depth is 1000 meters, the speed is 100 km / h. The name for the new weapon was chosen in a popular vote.

The first Poseidon carrier, the Belgorod nuclear submarine, was laid down as an Antey-class missile strike carrier and was re-equipped during construction. Two other ships of the complex - the special-purpose submarines "Khabarovsk" and "Ulyanovsk" - are being built specifically for the "Poseidons" according to project 09851.

- The Ulyanovsk special purpose nuclear submarine was laid down at Sevmash in 2017. It has the same basic dimensions as "Khabarovsk", but more modern systems and mechanisms will be used in it, - said the interlocutor of the agency.