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rushon shipbuilder Admiralty shipyards
launched Petropavlovsk em chatzky
improved kilo class submarine in a March
28th ceremony in st. Petersburg the
Russian kilo class submarine is nothing
new it's been around in some form or
another since the 1980s but the class
has seen continuous improvement over the
years the latest incremental update of
kilo class is project six 36.3 Russia
has now been marketing the submarines of
this variant of the kilo class as the
quietest in the world the first six
units of the project six 36.3 were built
for the Black Sea Fleet
petropavlovsk-kamchatsky is the first to
be built for the let'em Vostok based
pacific fleet in this video defence
updates analyzes why the latest improved
Russian kilo class submarine
petropavlovsk-kamchatsky is considered
so lethal let's get started this video
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the kilo class submarines have a length
of around 70 to 74 meters a displacement
of two thousand three hundred to two
thousand three hundred fifty tons when
surfaced and over 3,000 to 4,000 tons
when submerged so these submarines are
relatively small
for example the American Virginia class
has a length of 115 meters and displaces
around seven thousand nine hundred tons
the small profile is a well-thought-out
design decision by Russia and makes the
submarine hard to detect it's propelled
by a diesel electric system that has
five thousand nine hundred shaft
horsepower four thousand four hundred
kilowatt power output Petropavlovsk M
chatzky like all improvised kilo class
has a max speed of ten to twelve knots
that's 18 to 22 km/h when surfaced and
17 to 25 knots or 31 to 46 km/h when
submerged the submarine has an
impressive range of 7,500 nautical miles
thirteen thousand nine hundred
kilometers with snorkel and four hundred
nautical miles or seven hundred forty
kilometers when submerged let's
understand this clearly when cruising on
the surface or just below the surface
the diesel engine drives the vessel it
intakes air through a snorkel tube and
discharges exhaust during this time the
batteries are charged when completely
submerged the diesel engines are stopped
as it cannot be run without fresh air in
the fully submerged mode a diesel
submarine runs on electric propulsion
using its storage batteries the maximum
death of petropavlovsk-kamchatsky is
thought to be 300 meters though exact
details are kept under wraps the class
is reported to have a 45 days sea
endurance
no petropavlovsk-kamchatsky has a
compact profile the submarine possesses
an excellent armament which includes 1 6
533 millimeter torpedo tubes for a total
of 18 torpedoes - for calibre or Club
missile for land attack anti-ship
missile and anti-submarine role 324
mines for 8 strela-3 or 80 blow one
surface-to-air missiles kilo class
submarines are mainly intended for anti
shipping and anti-submarine operations
in relatively shallow waters so the
design has more emphasis on
accommodating a good quantity of
torpedoes here's an incident from 2017
that indicates how tough it is to detect
the improved kilo class submarine Russia
and war NATO that Krasnodar which has
the same configuration as
petropavlovsk-kamchatsky would be
passing through blue waters of the
Mediterranean toward the Black Sea which
will be its home NATO knew that new
submarine was passing by and new
submarines are items of keen interest
since information could be useful in any
future conflict how noisy is it water
its unique sound signatures how long can
its batteries last does it carry any new
equipment several specialist NATO
anti-submarine frigates were following
determined to find out the
nuclear-powered aircraft carrier USS
George HW Bush put its C scanning
Seahawk helicopters to the task as was a
flight of new p8 Poseidon sub hunting
aircraft based in Italy but the Russians
weren't going to play the submarine had
traveled on the surface in plain sight
through the North Sea from Russia's
northern naval bases NATO warships
including Britain's HMS Somerset kept a
watchful eye on it waiting for it to
submerge but it didn't at least not
until it reached Libya where Russia's
defence ministry a
uh plea warned international airlines
that it would be taking part in military
exercises off the coast it was part of a
sales pitch to Egypt and others who are
in the market for modern quiet and
conventionally powered submarines NATO
lost president or in the middle of the
exercises and out of the blue on May
29th a series of cruise missiles tore
through the air towards targets around
Syria's besieged city of Palmyra they
were Russian missiles and they came from
the Krasnodar the submarine was able to
move from Libya to Syria a distance of
more than 2,000 kilometers undetected
even with a significant number of NATO
assets trying to track it
this changed how the improved kilo class
is looked upon by the world
petropavlovsk-kamchatsky being an
improved kilo class submarine poses a
serious challenge to the US and NATO
comparatively much cheaper than American
super carriers but these can still
threaten the prized asset of US Navy
Nimitz and Ford class warships this is
where Russia is good at developing
asymmetric weapons through which it can
put up a fight against an adversary like
America whose defense budget at more
than 700 billion dollars is around 10
times the Russian budget Russian
submarine activities have spiked since
2008 and the addition of
petropavlovsk-kamchatsky will add to the
russian navy's capability thanks for
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