Successful testing of ”Yuri Dolgorukii”
The vessel, which will become one Russia’s most lethal Navy weapons, the strategic nuclear submarine “Yuri Dolgorukii”, has returned to Severodvinsk after successful testing in the White Sea.
The vessel completed the test programme and showed good sailing results, a press release from Sevmash reads. All the submarine’s systems are reported to have operated stably.
The testing has been conducted by a special crew with experts from Sevmash, the yard which has built the vessel. The Navy crew which is to permanently man the vessel will do its first testing in the course of September.
The “Yuri Dolgorukii” is Russia’s first fourth generation strategic submarine of the Borey class.
