Text: JSC Sevmash press service
Photo: SSN Severodvinsk.
New generation nuclear-powered attack submarine (SSN) Severodvinsk sailed off on Sept 12 for sea trials, reports press service of Sevmash shipyard, the sub's builder.
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SSN Severodvinsk Took Sea for Trials
09/13/2011 |
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This is the first shipyard's sea trials of the Project 885 Yasen lead submarine. It is carried out by trial team headed by Vladimir Dobrovolsky. The sub started sea trials under command of Capt 1 rank Sergei Mitiayev.
SSN Severodvinsk was designed by Malakhit maritime engineering bureau (St. Petersburg). The sub was withdrawn from covered slipway on June 15, 2010 in the presence of president Medvedev.