Yasen-class submarine

Yasen class
Yasen-class SSGN profile
K-560 Severodvinsk
Class overview
NameYasen class
BuildersSevmash
Operators Russian Navy
Preceded by
Succeeded byLaika class
CostRUB47 billion for Kazan (2011)[1]
Built1993–present
In commission2013–present
Planned12[2]
Building4
Completed5
Active4[3]
General characteristics
TypeNuclear cruise missile submarine
Displacement
  • Surfaced: 8,600 tons
  • Submerged: 13,800 tons[4]
LengthYasen: 139.2 m (457 ft)[5][6][7]
Yasen-M: 130 m (430 ft)
Beam13 m (43 ft)[5][6][7]
PropulsionOK-650KPM[8] pressurized water reactor 200 MWt turbines of 43,000 shp
Speed
  • Surfaced: 20 kn (37 km/h; 23 mph)
  • Submerged (silent): 28 kn (52 km/h; 32 mph)
  • Submerged (max): 35 kn (65 km/h; 40 mph)[citation needed]
RangeUnlimited
EnduranceOnly limited by food and maintenance requirements
Test depth
  • Safe depth: 1,475 feet (450m)
  • Never exceed depth: 1,804 feet (580m)
  • Crush depth: 2,160 feet (658m)
ComplementYasen: 85[9]
Yasen-M: 64[10]
Sensors and
processing systems		Rim Hat ESM/ECM Snoop Pair Surface Search Radar
Armament
  • Yasen: and Yasen-M:[11]
  • VLS equipped silos for:
    • Zircon hypersonic cruise missiles[12] or 32 (8 × 4) Oniks anti-ship cruise missiles or Kalibr anti-ship, anti-submarine and land attack submarine launched cruise missiles
  • 10 x torpedo tubes (533 mm) with Futlyar (UGST-M) heavyweight torpedoes[13]
  • Igla-M surface-to-air missiles[14]

The Yasen class, Russian designations Project 885 Yasen and Project 885M Yasen-M (Russian: Ясень, lit. 'ash tree', NATO reporting name: Severodvinsk), also referred to as the Graney class, are a series of nuclear-powered cruise missile submarines designed by the Malakhit Marine Engineering Bureau and built by Sevmash for the Russian Navy. Design work commenced in earnest in the 1980s with the first submarine built in the 1990s–early 2010s with commissioning in 2013. Two additional boats to an upgraded (and slightly shorter overall) Yasen-M design were commissioned in 2021 and six more are under construction.[15][16] Based on the Akula class and Alfa class designs, the Yasen class is projected to replace the Russian Navy's current Soviet-era nuclear attack submarines.[citation needed] The Akula class is optimised for a hunter-killer role, whereas the Yasen class concept uses the platform as a nuclear guided missile submarine (SSGN).[17]

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  14. ^ Рамм, Алексей; Степовой, Богдан (6 April 2020). "Форменное разнообразие: подводные лодки "Ясень" меняют внешний вид" [Variety of shapes: Yasen submarines change their appearance]. Izvestia (in Russian).
  15. ^ Tsypkin, Mikhail (July 2010). "The Challenge of Understanding the Russian Navy". In Blank, Stephen J.; Weitz, Richard (eds.). The Russian Military Today and Tomorrow: Essays in Memory of Mary Fitzgerald (PDF). Carlisle, Pennsylvania: Strategic Studies Institute, U.S. Army War College. p. 349. ISBN 978-1-58487-449-2. Archived from the original (PDF) on 24 December 2010. Retrieved 1 January 2011.
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  17. ^ Kaushal, Sidharth; Byrne, James; Byrne, Joe; Somerville, Gary (28 May 2021). "The Yasen-M and the Future of Russian Submarine Forces". RUSI.