- We are expecting to receive at least eight attack submarines of this class by 2020, Head of the Russian Navy Admiral Vladimir Vystosky said to RIA Novosti.
The admiral said that the first Graney (Russian name Yasen) class sub, the “Severodvinsk”, will start two-month-long sea trials in the White Sea in August, and it is expected to enter service with the Russian Navy by the end of 2011.
The second submarine of this class, “Kazan”, is entering its final stage of construction at the Sevmash shipyard in Severodvinsk outside Arkhangelsk. Construction of a third Graney class submarine is planned to begin in 2011.
Sevmash will deliver a total of three new nuclear-powered submarines to the navy in 2011. In addition to “Severodvinsk” these are the two Borey-class strategic submarines “Yury Dolgoruky” and “Aleksander Nevsky”, as BarentsObserver reported.
The attack submarines of the Graney class will be the most heavily armed multi-purpose submarine sailing in northern waters. Its armament includes 24 long-range cruise missiles, eight torpedoes in addition to mines and anti-ship missiles.
According to a report from the U.S. Office of Naval Intelligence, the Graney class submarines are the quietest, or least detectable, of contemporaneous Russian and Chinese nuclear submarines, Wikipedia writes.
