11.04.2012
Diesel electric submarine Kaluga will be put afloat after modernization in May 2012, reports ITAR-TASS referring to defense shipyard Zvezdochka (Severodvinsk).
Kaluga will be the first non-nuclear submarine repaired by
Zvezdochka for Russian Navy in the last 25 years.
The sub had been staying at the shipyard's quay for nine years pending repair. Full-scale upgrading works started in the last year. As is expected, SSK
Kaluga will be commissioned into Northern Fleet by the end of 2012.
The
Varshavyanka-class submarine was built in 1989 by
Krasnoye Sormovo shipyard in Nizhniy Novgorod. At first, she served at Black Sea Fleet and then was transferred to the north. The project was developed by
Rubin Central Design Bureau (St. Petersburg).
Displacement of
Varshavyanka-class submarines is 2,300 tons; length is 73 meters; submerged speed is 18 knots; full endurance is 45 days; test depth is 300 meters; complement is 52 men; armament includes 6 x 533-mm torpedo tubes.
