6/21/2023 0 Comments Abandoned typhoon class submarine![]() ![]() What was a missile-carrying heavy aviation cruiser? Few knew, but it certainly looked like a scarier carrier! Soviet 1985 Replenishment at Sea by the fleet oiler Berezina of a Kiev class aviation cruiser, a Kresta II class missile cruiser and a Kashin class destroyer. If you grew up during the Cold War, you might well have thought that the warships the Soviet Union was churning out were pretty cool! They were sleek, full of giant sensors and dangerous looking weapons, and they had different design categories than the accepted US and Western war fleets. Author Warsearcher Posted on 3 Tags Black Sea Fleet, Kilo class submarine, Navy of Ukraine, Pump-jet propulsion, Russian Navy, russian war in Ukraine, Sevastopol, Soviet Union Navy Leave a comment on B-871 Alrosa – Big-Tailed Kilo The Soviet Superships of Mykolaiv, Ukraine- A Legacy in Steel The refit also has reportedly involved an enormous upgrade to the lethality of the submarine – launch tubes to be able to operate Kalibr cruise missiles. Alrosa was in very lengthy refit which had just finished when Russia invaded Ukraine. This has not happened, and the current Russian War in Ukraine ensures the boat will not leave the Black Sea. The BSF was to upgrade to all improved Kilo type boats. Credit: Mike1979 Russia, CC BY-SA 3.0, via Wikimedia Commonsīy the 2010s, after years of uneventful service, Alrosa was supposed to have left Sevastopol to join the Baltic Fleet (though the boat should be close to retirement). B-871 Alrosa showing the enormous pump-jet propulsor aft, which is the distinctive feature of this kilo class boat. Sometime during the early millennium the sub was named “Alrosa,” reflecting its’ sponsorship by this group of diamond-mining corporations. Adapting the proven Kilo design was a sensible way to trial the technology. Western powers, such as Britain, had built pump-jet propelled submarines. At the time, this was cutting-edge technology for a Russian military submarine. It was fitted with an enormous pump-jet propulsor in place of the usual screw, and received the unique Russian designation of Project 877V. According to the contemporary edition of Jane’s Fighting Ships, it was extensively modified during 1998. The submarine was frequently non-operational during the mid-1990s, as the Ukrainian Navy did not have the inventory of parts or the spare batteries to safely operate the sub.ī-871 was back in Russian service by 1997. The Russian official version of this is different, with a crew uprising reported as suppressed immediately and no acknowledgement of Ukrainian Naval service. Credit: Credit: Pavlo1 at Ukrainian Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons Zaporizhya UA-01 Foxtrot class submarine, ca. It would have been a good running mate to the other functional boat, the older foxtrot class submarine Zaporizhzhia. This new attack boat would have been one of the most able of a small force of mostly abysmal submarines handed over to Ukraine. Upon the dissolution of the USSR, in late December 1991, the crew in Sevastopol voted to join the newly-independent Ukraine, in a process we described in our post on the Ukrainian Navy: The Only Easy Day was Never. It has spent most of its career in Sevastopol, and has now served three navies: The Navy of the Soviet Union, the Ukrainian Navy, and the Russian Navy. NARA: USN Official 330-CFD-DN-SC-94-00800ī-871, built at Gorky shipyard, transited the Volga and Don River/canal systems to its new homeport of Sevastopol, the headquarters of the Black Sea Fleet (BSF), to be commissioned Dec. The Iranian Navy’s second Russian-built Kilo class attack submarine en route delivery, 1993. Thirty more boats of the “Improved Kilo” or Project 636 Varshavyanka class have also joined the fleets of Russia, Algeria, China, and Vietnam, with more updated boats still under construction. Several units were exported to India, China, Iran, Romania, Poland, and Myanmar. More than forty original Project 877 Paltus (the Russian designation) boats were built at five shipyards. With the same armament of six 533mm torpedo tubes and naval mines, they were smaller and harder to detect than Tangos, and were clad in the same sound-absorbing anechoic rubber tiles. Kilos had a very different overall hull shape from earlier diesel-electric boats, such as the Tango and Foxtrot classes. Following on from many classes of Soviet attack boats, the Kilo design (NATO designation for these) was a leap forward in capability, with the first boat commissioned in 1980. This continues our series of unusual Soviet/Russian submarines. B-871, a Kilo class submarine, has an interesting history. ![]()
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