They will be part of the Pacific Fleet
MOSCOW, November 3. /tass/. The largest Russian shipyard Sevmash will transfer two nuclear submarines to the Russian Navy in 2022 - the strategic Generalissimo Suvorov of project 955A (code "Borey-A") and the strike Krasnoyarsk of project 885M (code "Yasen-M"). This was reported to TASS by a source close to the Russian military department.
"The existing plans for 2022 provide for the transfer to the fleet of one "strategist" - a strategic nuclear submarine missile cruiser Generalissimo Suvorov - and one "striker" - a multipurpose nuclear submarine Krasnoyarsk," he said.
According to him, both submarines will be part of the Pacific Fleet.
TASS has no official confirmation of this information.
It is known that by the end of 2021, Sevmash will transfer three nuclear submarines to the Russian Navy - the Prince Oleg of Project 955A, the Novosibirsk of Project 885M and the Belgorod special-purpose submarine, the Poseidon super torpedo carrier.
Currently, the Russian Navy has 4 submarines of projects 955 and 955A in combat. The fifth - "Prince Oleg" - will be transferred to the fleet in December 2021. Each of the ships carries 16 intercontinental ballistic missiles "Bulava". Sevmash is also building six submarines of the 885M project. The first production submarine of the 885M Novosibirsk project is being tested.
