In the autumn of 2022, the ship will have to start performing complex mooring and factory sea trials at sea, the TASS interlocutor noted.
MOSCOW, December 28. /tass/. The second serial nuclear submarine missile carrier of Project 955A (code "Borey-A") "Generalissimo Suvorov", withdrawn from the boathouse on December 25 at Sevmash (part of the United Shipbuilding Corporation), after completing the test program at sea, will be handed over to the Navy (Navy) of the Russian Federation in the first half of 2023. This was reported to TASS by a source in the military-industrial complex.
"The Generalissimo Suvorov nuclear submarine will be launched at the beginning of 2022, where it will be completed at the berth. In autumn, the ship will have to start performing complex mooring and factory sea trials at sea, and then a full cycle of state tests," the agency interlocutor said.
According to him, the missile carrier will be delivered to the customer in the first half of 2023.
TASS has no official comments from the company on this matter.
About the rocket carrier
The ceremony of the withdrawal of the cruiser Generalissimo Suvorov from the Sevmash boathouse took place on December 25. The ship was laid down at the shipyard on December 26, 2014. The missile carrier belongs to the fourth generation of nuclear submarines of the improved Borey-A project (the designer is the St. Petersburg Central Design Bureau of Marine Equipment Rubin). Fundamentally new technical solutions have been implemented in the project, equipment has been improved, the level of physical fields has been reduced, security has been increased, and a complex of import substitution works has been carried out.
Earlier, a TASS source said that in 2022 it is expected to sign a contract for the construction of another pair of strategic missile carriers of the Borey-A project. Their laying should take place at Sevmash in 2023.
Currently, the Russian Navy has three submarines of the basic project 955 "Borey": "Yuri Dolgoruky", "Vladimir Monomakh" and "Alexander Nevsky", as well as two submarines of the modernized project 955A: "Prince Vladimir" and "Prince Oleg". Five more Borey-A submarines - Emperor Alexander III, Prince Pozharsky, Generalissimo Suvorov, Dmitry Donskoy and Prince Potemkin - are in different stages of construction.
