Typhoons will come back in service
The world’s biggest ever built submarines – Typhoon-class – will be put into service again in Russia’s Northern fleet.
Three of the originally built six Typhoon-class submarines are scrapped. The decommissioning work on the last of these was completed in the beginning of June as BarentsObserver.com reported.
Today, only one submarine in the Typhoon-class remains operational. This submarine, Dmitry Donskoi, is used as a test platform for the new Bulava sea based intercontinental missiles, as previous reported by BarentsObserver.com. So far, the fate of the two last, Severstal and Arkhangelsk, have been unclear, but as BarentsObserver.com reported in April, these two could be put back into service again. Severstal and Arkhangelsk today remain in reserve at a Belomorsk naval base in Severodvinsk.
Now it is official; - We will keep these submarines in service, Russia’s navy chief Admiral Vladimir Vysotsky, told RIA-Novosti on Friday.
According to the news agency both Severstal and Arkhangelsk will most likely be modernized to carry next generation sea-base missiles.
The 175 meter (574 feet) long and 24,000 tons heavy vessel is the largest nuclear powered submarine ever built. During the Cold War the six Typhoon-class submarines were based at the naval base in Zapadnaya Litsa, only some 50 kilometres from the border to Norway.
