24.11.2011
Text:
Photo: B-585
St. Petersburg diesel electric submarine.
According to the source, SSK
St. Petersburg will not be commissioned into the Navy and remain an experimental prototype.
Defects of
Lada-class submarine – unfinished propulsion plant, sonar,
Lithium tactical data system, torpedo
TE-2 – make Russian Navy return to submarines of well-proved project
Varshavyanka, reports the newspaper.
According to the source, construction of two
Lada-class submarines –
Kronshtadt and
Sevastopol – was suspended as well in spite of their hulls almost completed.
Representative of JSC
Admiralteyskie Verfi shipyard denied a request of
to comment that information.
Characteristics of Project 677 Lada diesel electric submarines:
Surface displacement – 1,765 tons
Length overall – 66.8 meters
Beam overall – 7.1 meters
Surface speed – 10 knots
Submerged speed – 21 knots
Operating depth – 250 meters
Test depth – 300 meters
Endurance – 45 days
Propulsion plant: D49 diesel engines
Armament: 6 x 533-mm torpedo tubes (combat load – 18 torpedoes/rocket torpedoes/missiles or up to 44 mines), MANPADS
Igla-1M with 6 missiles
Crew – 35 men
