What will be the fourth generation Russian nuclear submarines

Not so long ago, the US Department of Defense made a statement that in the event of a non-nuclear global conflict, their navies will be able to detect and neutralize all nuclear submarines in Russia within 15-20 days. Leaving behind the brackets the political meaning of this statement and the hypothetical nature of the situation itself, it is necessary to pay attention to the time limits allowed for this task. To bring the missile into combat condition, it takes an incommensurably shorter time, measured in minutes, therefore, the reasoning about the possibilities of US NAVY is purely theoretical.

The entire submarine fleet of the Russian Federation to date (according to published data) consists of approximately six dozen units of combat equipment of various displacement, purpose and type of power plant. Since the service life of ships is measured in decades, most of them were built in the Soviet years.

The basis of the defense of our country is the nuclear triad, it is composed of the Strategic Missile Forces, long-range bomber aviation and nuclear submarines of Russia. At the same time, the division is conditional, ballistic missiles are based on ships, and aircraft carriers are winged steel.

The Northern and Pacific fleets are called upon to play an important role in the naval strategy. This is due to their ability to virtually unlimited access to any part of the world's oceans. In their composition are all the submarines of the project 667, which are the basis of strategic naval nuclear forces of the Russian Federation.

The nuclear submarines of Russia are divided according to their purpose into:

• Rocket carriers with ballistic means of delivery (15 pcs.);
• Carriers of cruise missiles (9 pcs.);
• Carriers torpedoes with a special charge (12 pcs.);
• Special submarines (7 pcs.).

The submarine "Sharks" (Pr. 941) - the world's largest submarines carry combat duty.

The new nuclear submarine of Russia, "Yuri Dolgoruky" (Borey avenue, No. 955, with a displacement of 24,000 tons) is equipped with the latest Bulava-M missiles, as well as the modernized Dmitry Donskoy. Both ships become the basis of the series. So, the nuclear submarine Vladimir Monomakh, Alexander Nevsky and five other 955 ships under the plan should be put into the Northern Fleet in the next couple of years. The main feature of this series is its low noise and special anti-hydroacoustic coatings, which greatly complicate the detection by sonars.

Other modern nuclear submarines of Russia are represented by the project "Ash" (855). The first of five, Severodvinsk, laid in 1993, has a displacement of 14 thousand tons. The speed is 31 knots under the water (the submarines move faster in the submerged position). The main weapon of the ships of this project is high-speed rocket-torpedoes.

Today, the main power of the submarine fleet consists of the boats of the Akula project (project 941), Kalmar (prospect 667 BDR), Dolphin (667 BDRM), Antey (Project 949A) and Shchuka B "(Item 971). Rumors circulated by NATO representatives that they are easy to detect are somewhat exaggerated. Sometimes they specially come up in the areas of anti-submarine exercises of the North Atlantic fleets in order to show their ability to provide secrecy.

However, the new nuclear submarines of Russia of the fourth generation of the class "Ash" and "Borei" will replace this Soviet technology in the next decade. Renewal is inevitable.