The 154 meter long Oscar-II class submarine “Voronezh” was put on the water having been in dock at Zvezdochka for the last two months, web site Severnyflot.ru reports.
The Northern Fleet has four Oscar-II submarines in service.
At the same time Zvezdochka has completed scrapping of a Typhoon class nuclear submarine. The project was funded by Russia, USA and Canada as part of the program “Global partnership”, Severnyflot.ru writes.
With a maximum displacement of 26,000 tons, Typhoons are the largest class of submarine ever built. They are 172 meters long and 23 meters wide. The Soviet Union built six of these submarines - three of these are still in service in the Northern Fleet, while the other three now are scrapped.
