Russia to build up-to-date base for nuclear submarines equipped with superpowerful Bulava missiles
Pastor Dale Morgan
Russia to build up-to-date base for nuclear submarines equipped with
superpowerful Bulava missiles*
Front page / Russia / News from the Kremlin
10.07.2007 Source: Pravda
Russia will build a new base of nuclear submarines in the Kamchatka
region (Russia’s Far East), Interfax reports quoting Admiral Vladimir
Masorin, the Commander-in-Chief of the Russian Navy. It will be the most
modern naval base in Russia, the agency quotes the official as saying.
The base, where latest models of nuclear-powered submarines (Borei
class) will be stationed, will be built in the town of Vilyuchinsky, in
Kamchatka.
“There will be a complex life support system created for them, as well
as the necessary infrastructure, which particularly includes a special
energy supply system when water and steam will be delivered to the
submarines from the coast. Over nine billion rubles have been allocated
from the state budget for the purposes,” Vladimir Masorin said.
A new hospital for submariners will also be opened in Vilyuchinsk in
October-November of the current year. The hospital, Masorin said, will
be equipped with up-to-date medical technologies.
Russia launched the first nuclear submarine (Yuri Dolgoruky) of Borei
class in April of the current year. Two other similar subs – Alexander
Nevsky and Vladimir Monomakh – are said to be complete in 2010.
The three nuclear cruisers will be used in the Pacific Ocean. According
to the project, each of the subs will be outfitted with 12 Bulava
ballistic missiles. The missiles are capable of delivering ten nuclear
warheads at a distance of up to 8,000 kilometers. The previous base of
the Soviet and Russian fleet of nuclear submarines was located in the
town of Severomorsk, in the Kola Peninsula.
Admiral Vladimir Masorin arrived in Kamchatka from Murmansk, where he
made several other important statements. The official said that only
contracted military men would serve on Russia’s naval vessels after
2009. In addition, he said, Russia was going to start the construction
of its first-ever aircraft carrier after 2015 that would carry up to 30
planes and helicopters. There are 19 Russian submarines and surface
vessels patrolling the World Ocean at the moment.
Source: agencies
Translated by Dmitry Sudakov
Pravda.ru