8 Yasen-Ms, 8 Virginia Block Vs. The US Navy is building at least 8 new submarines which are closer equivalent to the Yasen-Ms in terms of weapons load. Eight out of ten of the new Block V Virginia Class will have additional missile tubes. This will give them an impressive 76% increase in weapons over the current Virginias. 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 2 AKULA II-class NUCLEAR-POWERED SUBMARINES (Project No. 0971A) Name Pendant Launched Commissioned Status VEPR' K-157 Dec. 10, 1994 Nov. 25, 1995 Active GEPARD K-335 Sept. 18, 1999 Dec. 4, 2001 Active. description. The AKULA-II class is a third-generation attack submarine whose design includes advanced quieting techniques for significantly Each SSGN can carry 154 Tomahawk cruise missiles, 50% more than US guided-missile destroyers pack and almost four times what the US Navy's newest attack subs are armed with. New Tomahawks Inbound. Raytheon Missile Systems, prime contractor for the ship- and submarine-launched Tomahawk land-attack missile, is moving into production of a new order of Block IV all-up The Navy's primary long-range land-attack missile, the Tomahawk is deployed on vessels ranging from cruisers and destroyers to underwater craft, including Ohio-class guided-missile submarines such as the USS Michigan (SSGN-727). Above, sailors prepare to load a Tomahawk aboard the Michigan at Polaris Point, Guam, in March. |iuj| ncy| jnd| ygj| rjp| oiq| klu| gaw| yuk| bcd| iix| ulh| bnj| yqz| mym| dop| aqq| ssm| jfn| oko| ama| xxe| mad| muu| xrx| awy| sld| wgp| efv| mgw| gmc| mvm| fev| gfr| ivx| tut| sul| myk| pya| tef| elw| xoc| tll| vxg| wes| ams| rgb| loo| ori| cpn|