The Russian Navy will receive ten nuclear Yasen Class submarines over the next nine years under the state arms programme.
The 119m submarine can be equipped with supersonic high-speed missiles and torpedoes, and is capable of hitting the submarines below the surface and weapons on the surface.
The Yasen Class submarine can achieve speeds of 31kt and has a cruising capacity of 100 days.
Center for Analysis of Strategy and Technology research associate Andrey Frolov said the submarine was multifunctional and could be used to attack carrier forces.
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By GlobalData“In Soviet times, they had to use two different types of submarines, but Yasen is uniting them,” RT quotes Frolov as saying.
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The Russian Navy plans to commission the first Yasen Class vessel by the end of 2011.