02.04.2009
Head of the Russian Navy admiral Vladimir Vysotsky visited Sevmash shipyard last week to inspect the nuclear submarine Yury Dolgoruky.
Admiral Vysotsky took part in a meeting which an interdepartmental coordination council on building of nuclear powered submarines held at the shipyard. He inspected the strategic submarine
Yury Dolgoruky and met with her crew, a press release from
Sevmash says.
The submarine is currently is undergoing dockside trials at the
Sevmash shipyard in Severodvinsk, Murmansk, and should according to plan be delivered to the Russian Navy this year.
Yury Dolgoruky is Russia's first
Borey-class strategic nuclear submarine, and the first to be equipped with
Bulava missiles. She will have 16
Bulava ballistic missiles, each carrying up to 10 nuclear warheads and having a range of 8,000 kilometers.
Two other
Borey-class nuclear submarines, the
Alexander Nevsky and the
Vladimir Monomakh, are currently under construction at the
Sevmash plant.
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