![]() “For the first time in Russian history, the Russian Navy can lay off a European coast or in some cases even the continental United States and present a land-attack cruise missile threat … with very highly precise weapons,” Michael Petersen, director of the Russia Maritime Studies Institute at the US Naval War College, told Insider in 2020. The Yasen-class submarines’ capability to hit land-based targets is of particular concern to Western military experts and officials alike. The Kazan and Novosibirsk are the improved Yasen-M variants.Īs per Russian media reports, the Russian Navy intends to construct ten Yasen-class submarines, with the fourth K-571 Krasnoyarsk scheduled to enter service later this year. So far, three Yasen class submarines have been commissioned in the Russian Navy, namely the K-560 Severodvinsk, which is the lead boat of the class, followed by the K-561 Kazan and K-573 Novosibirsk. US Military Impressed By Yasen-class Submarine These torpedoes are hydroacoustic decoys to divert incoming torpedoes. ![]() These launchers are believed to carry a small 324-millimeter torpedo similar to the ‘Barrier’ system carried by TYPHOON and AKULA boats. ![]() The submarines also have six countermeasure launchers carried externally under the casing, four placed forward above the torpedo tubes, and two aft of the VLS. ![]() (Vitaly Kuzmin)Īlso, there are eight torpedo tubes comprising four standard-diameter 533-millimeter torpedo tubes and four 650-millimeter torpedo tubes, which can accommodate homing torpedoes and 3M54 Klub missiles, as well as mines. The upgraded Yasen-M class submarine can also fire 3M22 Zircon hypersonic anti-ship and land-attack missiles, which are said to have a range of 1000 kilometers and speeds of Mach 8. The system can launch missiles from both surfaced and submerged positions of the submarine. The Yasen-class submarines have eight СМ-346 complex (3Р-14В) vertical launch tubes for Onik and Kalibr cruise missiles. The Oniks can also be used for land-attack purposes.Ī Yasen-class submarine can attack the US East Coast from the mid-Atlantic with these missiles. In contrast, in their land-attack role, the submarines carry the (3M14K) Kalibr missiles with a range of 1,600 nautical miles (2963.2 kilometers). To strike the enemy carriers, the Yasen class submarines carry the (3M55) Onik missiles with a range of 320 nautical miles (or 592.64 kilometers). Yasen-class, also known as Project 885, is Russia’s newest line of nuclear-powered cruise missile submarines and among the most capable submarines in the world. That impact has reduced decision space for a senior national leader in a time of crisis.” “Now, not only the Atlantic, but we also have them in the Pacific, and it’s just a matter of time – probably a year or two – before that’s a persistent threat, 24 hours a day. Within the last year, Russia has also placed their in the Pacific,” he said. In response to questions from Senator Joni Ernst (R-Iowa) about the threat of Chinese and Russian cruise missile submarines operating close to the US mainland, VanHerc said that Russia has been deploying its Yasen-class nuclear cruise missile attack boats more frequently in recent years. Glen VanHerc, appeared before the Senate Armed Services Committee on March 23. The Typhoon-class’s previous niche in Russia’s nuclear deterrent is now complemented (and increasingly co-opted) by the introduction of the smaller and more modern Borei-class ballistic missile submarines, the first of which joined the Russian fleet in 2013 after years of construction delays.A top US military commander has said that Russia could field its most potent and quietest nuclear attack submarines in two years to maintain a near-constant presence off US coasts. Such a refit, even of just one of the two decommissioned Typhoons, would undoubtedly be a heavy lift for the Russian defense industry in terms of cost and expertise, but could fit in well with the Russian navy’s future plans to become an agile force capable of protecting Russia’s long Arctic coastline and maintaining Russia’s nuclear deterrent.įor now, the only Typhoon that the Russian Navy has left to work with is the Dmitry Donskoi, which is interestingly also the first of the class to be built. While the Typhoons were initially designed to patrol under the ice of the Arctic to wait for a possible signal to participate in a hypothetical nuclear exchange, Russian Vice Admiral Oleg Burtsev proposed in 2019 that the Arkhangelsk and Severstal could be refitted with Kalibr cruise missiles in response to the refit of the United States’ Ohio-class submarines with their own cruise missiles.
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