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Saturday, May 31, 2014
New-class Black Sea submarine leaves for sea trials
A new generation diesel-electric submarine Friday left St. Petersburg's Admiralty shipyard for Baltic Sea trials.
The near-complete diesel-electric Novorossiysk will be at sea for less than a month and will return to base for final fitting ahead of joining the Black Sea naval fleet, a defence industry source told Itar-Tass on Friday. Three-month mooring trials have already been completed.
Novorossiysk is the first in a series of 636.6 Varshavyanka Project vessels, Black Sea Fleet Commander Admiral Viktor Chirkov told ITAR-TASS.
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Looks like Novorossiysk is an improved Kilo - given other public relations names by Russia. It seems the article is really about a political launch with Novorossiysk only being operational in 3-4 years time.
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