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    Project 955: Borei class SSBN

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    Post  miketheterrible Sat Sep 22, 2018 10:26 am

    Unammed sources strike again.

    Borei has been made for years and already ready for service, and already floating around carrying hypersonic missiles (Bulava drops faster than mach 10).

    Americans are stupid. Along with people peddling their sources
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    Post  verkhoturye51 Sat Sep 22, 2018 10:49 am

    Yeh this person with firsthand knowledge should know at least that Borei II has 16 Bulavas.

    And what sources for surface fleet were cut? Naval construction hasn't seen such speed since late 80s.
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    Post  PapaDragon Sat Sep 22, 2018 1:54 pm

    Borei SSGN version, pretty please Navy!!! love
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    Post  GunshipDemocracy Sat Sep 22, 2018 3:49 pm

    verkhoturye51 wrote:
    And what sources for surface fleet were cut? Naval construction hasn't seen such speed since late 80s.

    CVNs postponed to 2030s Liders too, instead of 11356 you have 22800. It doesnt look like budget increases to me.




    PapaDragon wrote:Borei SSGN version, pretty please Navy!!! love

    if Bulava gets Avangard warheads it should be just fine lol1 lol1 lol1
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    Post  hoom Sat Sep 22, 2018 6:00 pm

    Yeh this person with firsthand knowledge should know at least that Borei II has 16 Bulavas.
    Firsthand knowledge of the Wiki page for Borei class Razz
    Literally there is nothing not already widely public in that text & the failure to update the missile count is just laughable fail.

    Probably this is a tie-in to the recent UK propaganda bit about 'Yasen-A' supposedly hanging around Faslane Rolling Eyes & which had a fairly prominent mention of Borei-A for no good reason.
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    Post  GarryB Sun Sep 23, 2018 3:53 am

    The scary thing is that loyal readers and patriotic americans will believe this shit and think... crap... by 2024 the Russians might have nuclear weapons that can reach US cities... oh... no... now when the next elections come up and one of the candidates says they want to reduce the war budget... how will they react?

    Surely they need to increase the budget to deal with this potential new threat from Russia... america cannot be left vulnerable to Russian nuclear attack... it is just unamerican!

    Borei will never have 20 launch tubes... it is simply not going to happen... don't they understand the concept of "all your eggs in one basket"?

    Of course with belligerent Trump in charge, with the potential for crazy hilary or some replicant that wants to show the democrats are harder on Russia than trump was, then I guess there will be no replacement for the new start treaty and they might have super SSBNs with 30 SLBMs per boat, but I suspect it would be rather more likely they just build more boats and some SLBM barges they can tow around with nuclear icebreakers...

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    Post  Tsavo Lion Sun Sep 23, 2018 4:09 am

    With Bulava SLBM testing over, they could return D. Donskoi SSBN to the fleet with its 20 tubes; to stay in SALT, they can deactivate/convert 1/2 older Deltas. Icebreakers r needed to help surface ships on the NSR & expeditions to the Antarctic.


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    Post  Arrow Sun Sep 23, 2018 5:53 pm

    Borei will never have 20 launch tubes... it is simply not going to happen... don't they understand the concept of "all your eggs in one basket"? wrote:

    It's a mistake. Russia needs a much larger nuclear arsenal
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    Post  Isos Sun Sep 23, 2018 6:56 pm

    Arrow wrote:

    It's a mistake. Russia needs a much larger nuclear arsenal

    They are limited to international treaties and they already have the biggesr nuclear arsenal.

    16 launch tubes means they can build more borei so more plateforms so more survivability.
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    Post  PapaDragon Sun Sep 23, 2018 7:48 pm

    Arrow wrote:
    Borei will never have 20 launch tubes... it is simply not going to happen... don't they understand the concept of "all your eggs in one basket"? wrote:

    It's a mistake. Russia needs a much larger nuclear arsenal

    No, Russia needs larger and more uniform SSBN fleet which they are now finally getting with 6 more Borei-A ordered instead of waiting for 4 Borei-B.
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    Post  Hole Sun Sep 23, 2018 10:02 pm

    14 Boreis with 16 missiles each = 224 missiles. 6 to 10 warheads on every missile = 1.344 to 2.240 warheads. This is more than allowed by the last START treaty.
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    Post  verkhoturye51 Sun Sep 23, 2018 10:25 pm

    New start allows Russia 1550 deployed warheads...Boreis will have 14*16*6=1344 warheads. 6 each missile.

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    Post  Tsavo Lion Mon Sep 24, 2018 3:51 am

    verkhoturye51 wrote:New start allows Russia 1550 deployed warheads...Boreis will have 14*16*6=1344 warheads. 6 each missile.
    Just like on the RN & probably USN subs on patrol, it's possible that not all tubes r filled with BMs: https://fas.org/nuke/guide/uk/slbm/d-5.htm
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    Post  GarryB Mon Sep 24, 2018 11:05 am

    With Bulava SLBM testing over, they could return D. Donskoi SSBN to the fleet with its 20 tubes; to stay in SALT, they can deactivate/convert 1/2 older Deltas. Icebreakers r needed to help surface ships on the NSR & expeditions to the Antarctic.

    The DD didn't have 20 tubes able to launch Bulavas... it only had a couple as far as I am aware so the best you could hope for is to load 1 or 2 Bulavas and 18 or 19 Sinevas... and even then you would have to ask yourself why... it makes rather more sense to have a higher number of subs with slightly fewer missiles each than a couple of subs with huge numbers of missiles on each.

    It's a mistake. Russia needs a much larger nuclear arsenal

    Much cheaper to develop 10,000km range cruise missiles and then make thousands.

    New start allows Russia 1550 deployed warheads...Boreis will have 14*16*6=1344 warheads. 6 each missile.

    SLBMs are usually counted as having something like 3 warheads no matter how many it actually has.

    Plus by the time they actually have 14 Boreis in service all the Deltas will be gone and the Akulas, and most of the first few Boreis will likely be converted into cruise missile carriers...
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    Post  Tsavo Lion Sat Sep 29, 2018 1:41 am

    The new modification of the Borey submarines is too expensive.
    The 1st 3 may be upgraded to A later.
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    Post  hoom Sat Sep 29, 2018 6:06 am

    Thats talking about abandoning Borey B which we knew about when that article was posted.
    Doesn't say anything about changing the first 3 to A, even explicitly not
    A total of 14 such submarines will serve in the Russian Navy: 3 ordinary and 11 in modification "A"
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    Post  Tsavo Lion Sat Sep 29, 2018 7:16 am

    Doesn't say anything about changing the first 3 to A, even explicitly not
    I wrote: The 1st 3 may be upgraded to A later.
    So, it may or may not happen; or they could be upgraded to near A standard. Time will tell!
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    Post  PapaDragon Sat Sep 29, 2018 2:52 pm

    Tsavo Lion wrote:
    Doesn't say anything about changing the first 3 to A, even explicitly not
    I wrote: The 1st 3 may be upgraded to A later.
    So, it may or may not happen; or they could be upgraded to near A standard. Time will tell!

    When it comes to conversion of first 3, that's a discussion to be had in about decade or so. In the meantime they work just fine.

    Borei-B is not cancelled but it's on the distant back burner because improvements​ do not justify increased price (almost 50%)

    Also, it would mean they would only get 4 Borei-B​ instead of 6 Borei-A with all accompanying delays that brand new platform would include.

    This decision was made several months after Knyaz Vladimir started trials so quite possible that they are quite satisfied with Borei-A and that they don't see the need to push the whole thing into needless excess.
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    Post  Big_Gazza Sun Sep 30, 2018 1:10 am

    PapaDragon wrote:
    Tsavo Lion wrote:
    Doesn't say anything about changing the first 3 to A, even explicitly not
    I wrote: The 1st 3 may be upgraded to A later.
    So, it may or may not happen; or they could be upgraded to near A standard. Time will tell!

    When it comes to conversion of first 3, that's a discussion to be had in about decade or so. In the meantime they work just fine.

    Borei-B is not cancelled but it's on the distant back burner because improvements​ do not justify increased price (almost 50%)

    Also, it would mean they would only get 4 Borei-B​ instead of 6 Borei-A with all accompanying delays that brand new platform would include.

    This decision was made several months after Knyaz Vladimir started trials so quite possible that they are quite satisfied with Borei-A and that they don't see the need to push the whole thing into needless excess.

    Good analysis, right on the mark. Its somewhat like Gorshkovs' old maxim "good enough is good enough". No need to force-feed the (state-owned) MIC with additional funds to improve a design that is already adequate.
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    Post  verkhoturye51 Fri Nov 30, 2018 10:54 pm

    Knyaz Vladimir started factory trials on 28th November and dived for the first time.

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    Borei no. 11 & 12 to start production in 2024.
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    Post  PapaDragon Sat Dec 01, 2018 2:30 am


    And here be photo of young debutante, dark, grainy and low res in best tradition of Cold War Cool

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    Post  Hole Sat Dec 01, 2018 11:18 am

    In the old cold war there would have been no lights on the sub. Very Happy
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    Post  hoom Sat Dec 01, 2018 2:18 pm

    verkhoturye51 wrote:Knyaz Vladimir started factory trials on 28th November and dived for the first time.

    Project 955: Borei class SSBN - Page 26 00C63K02?format=jpg&name=600x314

    Borei no. 11 & 12 to start production in 2024.
    Not a pic of Knyaz Vladimir.

    Edit: just incase there was any remaining doubt about the missile count Google Earth did catch it with the hatches open (exposure like that is part of START or something isn't it?)
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    Post  George1 Sat Dec 01, 2018 5:06 pm

    verkhoturye51 wrote:Knyaz Vladimir started factory trials on 28th November and dived for the first time.

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    Borei no. 11 & 12 to start production in 2024.

    Borei no 9th and 10th

    Russia to build 2 more Borei-A strategic nuclear-powered submarines by 2028

    The Russian Navy currently operates three Project 955 Borei submarines


    MOSCOW, November 30. /TASS/. Russia will build two more Project 955A Borei-A serial-produced nuclear-powered strategic submarines at the Sevmash Shipyard and their total number will rise to ten, a source in the defense industry told TASS on Friday.

    "The state armament program for 2018-2027 includes the construction of two more Project 955A Borei submarines that have not yet received their names. The construction will begin at the Sevmash in 2024," the source said, adding that "the first submarine should be delivered to the Fleet in 2026 and the second in 2027."

    The Russian Navy currently operates three Project 955 Borei submarines. The Project 955A Borei-A lead submarine is undergoing shipbuilders’ sea trials and four serial-produced Project 955A submarines have been laid down and are under construction, the source said.

    "With the keel-laying of two more underwater cruisers, the number of Project 955 and Project 955A strategic submarines in the Russian Navy will rise to ten. Five of them will be operational in the Northern Fleet and the other five in the Pacific Fleet," the source said.


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    Post  hoom Sun Dec 02, 2018 1:08 am

    About these 2 more: they previously announced there would be 6 more Borei-A to be laid down 'after 2023' http://tass.com/defense/1005356
    There have been 8 Boreis laid down/completed so far -> 14 total announced.
    Is it announcing increasing the total to 16? Or changing the keel laying of that additional 6 to 'after 2024'?

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