JSC "Admiralty Shipyards" (part of the United Shipbuilding Corporation) has started mooring tests of a large diesel-electric submarine of the project 636.3 "Magadan", the press service of the enterprise reported.
The tests will last about two months and will be completed in early June. During this time, the specialists of the factory departments and contractors will check the ship's navigation system, communications complex, general ship systems, sonar complex, control systems, torpedo and missile weapons systems. After the end of the mooring tests, the ship will go to the factory sea trials, the completion of which is scheduled for the Day of the Navy.
"Magadan" - the third submarine of the series for the Pacific Fleet of the Russian Federation, launched on March 26, 2021 in a high, 91%, degree of readiness. The ship was laid down on November 1, 2019.
Currently, the fourth submarine of the Pacific series "Ufa" has been docked, and the ship's strong hull is being welded.
The construction of a series of submarines for the Pacific Fleet is in accordance with contractual obligations. The third boat of the Magadan series will be transferred to the Russian Navy in November this year, and the fourth ship Ufa is scheduled to be launched by the end of 2021.
The contract for the construction of the series was signed in September 2016. The first ship "Petropavlovsk-Kamchatsky" was transferred to the Russian Navy on November 25, 2019. The Volkhov submarine, the second in the series, joined the Pacific Fleet on October 24, 2020.
JSC "Admiralteiskiye Verfi" is the basic enterprise of the shipbuilding industry, the center of non-nuclear submarine shipbuilding in Russia. Currently, two series of submarines and a series of ice-class patrol ships for the Russian Navy are under construction. A series of large freezing fishing trawlers and an ice-resistant self-propelled platform "North Pole" are also under construction. The company employs 7,700 people. November 5, 2021 will mark the 317th anniversary of the founding of the Admiralty Shipyards.
