Jury and Aleksandr join fleet in June and August
Dates set for official transfer to the navy of first to SSBNs since 1992.
Russia’s Defence Minister Anatoly Serdyukov says “Yuri Dolgoruky” would join the fleet in June and the “Aleksandr Nevsky” in August, reports RIA Novosti.
The two will then be the first new strategic submarines to join the Russian navy since the last of the Delta-IV class submarines, the “Novomoskovsk” was commissioned 20 years ago, in February 1992.
“Yuri Dolgoruky” and “Aleksandr Nevsky” are both of the fourth generation Borey-class submarines that over the next decade will replace the existing Delta-III class submarines in the Pacific fleet and Delta-IV class submarines in the Northern fleet.
“Yuri Dolgoruky” has over the last two years been based at the naval yard in Severodvinsk and test-sailing the White Sea awaiting an approval of the submarines ballistic missiles, the Bulava.
Defence Minister Serdyukov now says the documents to commission the Bulava system were being formalized and “will be commissioned for the navy this year.”
