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Information about the decommissioning of the Russian navy submarine missile carrier project 941UM "Shark" "Dmitry Donskoy" does not correspond to reality. This was reported by several sources in the shipbuilding industry and law enforcement agencies of the North.
The information that appeared about the write-off of the last "Shark" was denied. It is reported that no one has written off the missile carrier, currently it is in the open sea, where it performs combat training tasks. A decision on its future fate will be made no earlier than December of this year, when the technical condition of the nuclear submarine and the nuclear fuel reserve will be checked. At the same time, it is possible that the service life of the Dmitry Donskoy will be extended for another 4-5 years.
- TASS quotes the words of one of the sources.
Earlier, unofficial information appeared in a number of media outlets that "Dmitry Donskoy" was taken out of combat and will soon be disposed of. They started talking about the decommissioning of the submarine for a long time, last year it was reported that after the laying of two new APRCS of the Borey-A project, one of which will be named Dmitry Donskoy, the last Shark will remain just a numbered TK-208 submarine and will be used for weapons tests.
The heavy nuclear-powered strategic missile submarine TK-208 Dmitry Donskoy is the lead in a series of six submarines of the 941 Akula project. Laid down at Sevmash on June 17, 1976, launched on September 23, 1980, commissioned on December 29, 1981. In 2002, he underwent modernization, after which he took part in the tests of the Bulava rocket.
