Moscow. September 3. INTERFAX-Tests of the strategic missile submarine of the Borei-A project Generalissimo Suvorov and the Yasen-M multi-purpose nuclear submarine Krasnoyarsk are scheduled for 2022, the head of the United Shipbuilding Corporation (USC) Alexey Rakhmanov said in an interview with Interfax on Friday.
"Next year we will continue the construction of serial submarines of the Borey-A and Yasen-M projects, and we will also start testing the Krasnoyarsk and Generalissimo Suvorov submarines," he said.
Rakhmanov confirmed plans to transfer two new nuclear submarines to the Russian Navy this year - the Borey-A Knyaz Oleg project and the Yasen-M Novosibirsk project. "These ships are undergoing factory tests and are among those that should be transferred this year," the head of the corporation said.
A series of nuclear-powered submarines of the fourth generation of the Borey and Borey-A project, armed with Bulava intercontinental ballistic missiles, will become the basis of naval strategic nuclear forces for the coming decades, the Russian military said.
The fourth generation includes multi-purpose nuclear submarines of the Yasen-M project 885M-carriers of Onyx and/or Kalibr cruise missiles. It was reported about plans to arm them with hypersonic missiles "Zircon".
On May 7, the Kazan multi-purpose submarine, which is the main one in the Yasen-M project, was accepted into the combat structure of the Russian Navy.
In December 2020, Deputy Minister of Defense of the Russian Federation Alexey Krivoruchko announced that the production capacities of the Sevmash plant are fully loaded with orders of the Ministry of Defense until 2027. Sevmash will annually transfer one nuclear submarine of the Borey-A and Yasen-M projects to the Russian Navy. "It is planned to build 14 submarines," Boreyev "and" Ash", " Krivoruchko said then.
