According to a TASS source, after the launch, the submarine will be completed afloat
MOSCOW, March 12. /TASS/. The second serial nuclear submarine of the project 885M cipher "Yasen-M" Krasnoyarsk will be launched by the shipbuilders of "Sevmash" in August this year. This was reported to TASS by a source in the military-industrial complex.
"The withdrawal of the Krasnoyarsk from the boathouse is planned for August 2021," he said, adding that after that the completion of the submarine afloat, its mooring tests and tests of the nuclear reactor will begin.
According to him, the transfer of the nuclear submarine to the Russian Navy is planned for the end of 2022.
TASS has no official confirmation of this information.
Earlier it was reported that the first serial submarine of the project 885M "Novosibirsk" will be transferred to the Russian Navy at the end of 2021. Thus, this year the shipbuilders of "Sevmash "(part of the United Shipbuilding Corporation) are preparing to transfer to the Russian Navy the lead submarine of the project 885M "Kazan" and the first serial - "Novosibirsk". The company has six more submarines of this project in various stages of construction.
Project 885/885M submarine
The seventh and eighth hulls of the 885M project-the Voronezh and Vladivostok submarines-were laid down on July 20, 2020. The bookmark was watched by Russian President Vladimir Putin via video conference.
The lead and only submarine of the project 885 "Yasen" - "Severodvinsk" - performs tasks as part of the submarine forces of the Northern Fleet. It was built on the " Sevmash "and handed over to the Navy on June 17, 2014. The main attack weapons of the submarines of the 885/885M projects are the Kalibr-PL and Onyx cruise missiles. Severodvinsk is preparing for tests of the hypersonic missile "Zircon", which will begin this year.
