Russia's new nuclear sub completes first round of sea trials

07-10-09, 01:20 PM

MOSCOW, July 10 (RIA Novosti) - Russia's newest Borey class strategic nuclear submarine, the Yury Dolgoruky, has completed the first round of sea trials and is returning to a shipyard in northern Russia, the Sevmash plant said on Friday.

http://en.rian.ru/mlitary_news/20090710/155493140.html

AVGWarhawk · 07-10-09, 02:07 PM

Give it time and they will be here:

07-10-09, 02:09 PM

Ouch!

Oberon · 07-10-09, 02:32 PM

I wonder how many US and UK subs were shadowing her...

07-10-09, 02:55 PM

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I wonder how many US and UK subs were shadowing her...

We may never know until it sinks, ala Kursk.

Mush Martin · 07-10-09, 03:11 PM

you went with that story over Bikini Protest in the Ukraine....what has become of us?

Task Force · 07-10-09, 03:15 PM

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Originally Posted by AVGWarhawk

Give it time and they will be here:

Hey look, its russias sub force... appear to be in the best shape of there life...:rotfl:

07-10-09, 03:22 PM

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Originally Posted by Mush Martin

you went with that story over Bikini Protest in the Ukraine....what has become of us?

Missed that one. Too bad, I like Bikini Atoll for personal username reasons.

ETR3(SS) · 07-10-09, 03:22 PM

Awfully long boat for only 16 birds. And with a speed of 29kts how much you wanna bet she's got 2 reactors on-board?

The released specs on this boat are interesting to say the least. Oh and I wouldn't count Russia's navy out of any races yet. While a good chunk of their fleet is rusting away (that's what you get when you have to build 5 boats to every US 1) they are stepping up their Deterrent Patrols.

AVGWarhawk · 07-10-09, 03:29 PM

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I like Bikini Atoll for personal username reasons.

That's were SpongeBob lives

Task Force · 07-10-09, 03:34 PM

Hmm... thats intresting... Maby theyl throw some explosives on his pineapple...:rotfl:

geetrue · 07-10-09, 03:34 PM

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a crew of 107, including 55 officers

These crew numbers sound a little off over 50% of the crew is officer's???

07-10-09, 03:42 PM

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These crew numbers sound a little off over 50% of the crew is officer's???

Perhaps its a sea trial thing. Or, like the US you can't trust a thing they say about submarines.

Kazuaki Shimazaki II · 07-11-09, 10:22 AM

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Awfully long boat for only 16 birds.

It is around the same length as the Delta IV, also a 16-missile boat. An Ohio crams 24 onto the same length, but it has only one ~35000HP reactor, and is a single hull design.

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And with a speed of 29kts how much you wanna bet she's got 2 reactors on-board?

She almost certainly does.

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These crew numbers sound a little off over 50% of the crew is officer's???

No, it isn't a joke. It is typical. In addition to those 55 officers, if the boat was actually commissioned as originally scheduled, it would have had something like 30 michmanny (warrant officers). They don't have the latter now because AFAIK they are getting working on getting rid of the michman core. The ship will be only 10-20% of what we may consider "normal enlisted" or conscripts.

The important thing is to get the correct mix of qualification onto the boat, and the Russian Navy uses its officer corps much more for technical matters than say the US.

A positive way of putting it would be that the Russians have more of a single line of authority, rather than a dual line.

The negative (and stereotypical) way of saying the same thing is that they have a weak NCO corps, and this leads to overworked officers, dedvoschina, blah, blah, blah...

Jimbuna · 07-11-09, 10:30 AM

Is it just me or do the crew on parade look particularly nervous?

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