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Saturday, September 28, 2013

Lada submarines: Made to defend and win

The Lada class diesel-electric submarines are designed for anti-submarine warfare and anti-surface warfare, defence of naval bases and sea lanes, as well as for reconnaissance. The Rubin bureau is willing to modify the export version’s basic design to meet the requirements of the Indian Navy.

Yury Dolgoruky, the lead ship of Project 955’s borey class is already in the Russian Navy, and the serial ships Alexander Nevsky and Vladimir Monomakh are scheduled for delivery at the end of the year. The Russian Navy, however, also needs a certain number of other ships of various classes, including non-nuclear submarines.

Within the framework of the state armament program, there are plans to build twenty diesel-electric submarines by the year 2020. Six of them will are Varshavyanka Projects 636.3 vessels and the remaining 14 are the modified Lada Project 677 ships.

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