The strategic nuclear submarine of ballistic missiles (SSBN) Knyaz Pozharsky It has been the last ship to join the Russian Navy. The Fifth Submarine Flag Ceremony of the Class Borei-Athe most advanced in Russia, took place on July 24 she already attended Vladimir Putin. But only ten days after receiving honors, Secret engineering documents and operational instructions have reached the hands of Ukraine.
The Main Intelligence Directorate From the Ministry of Defense of Ukraine (Hur) published on Sunday some of these documents in its official Telegram channel, without specifying how you have obtained them.
According to official Russian information, Knyaz Pozharsky is armed with ballistic missiles R-30 Bulavatorpedoes and other advanced weapons systems. It also has modern navigation, communications and sound systems and a High degree of maneuverability and acoustic stealth.
Submerged, displaces 24,000 tons driven by a nuclear pressurized water reactor VM-5 of some 190 MW Thermal Knyaz Pozharsky exceeds even the submarines of the class Ohio from the United States and has its base in Gadzhiyevo, in the Murmansk region.
It is about Fifth submarine of this class delivered to the Russian Navy In the last six years. It has 16 launch tubes And each bulava missile can carry up 10 nuclear eyeswith a reach of 8,000 km.
What has leaked Ukraine of the strategic submarine Knyaz Pozharsky
Ukraine claims to have accessed documents that include, among others:
- Nominal listings of crew personnel, including information about their positions, qualification and physical preparation level.
- Combat instructions for crew.
- Ship combat scheme, survival systems diagrams and the organizational structure of the endowment.
- Standards for the behavior of personnel in cabin and common rooms, procedures for the evacuation of wounded and transfer of loads, and protocols for action during towing maneuvers, among other functional instructions.
- Engineering documentation, as an inspection act on the deformation of a radiofrequency buoy, with the names of the members of the Technical Commission and the companies participating in the investigation.
The Hur also indicates that it has an extract of the Pozharsky Operating Hours Bookan extensive document that regulates the daily activity, both combat and routine, aboard the ship. It is an unprecedented and depth vision of the borei-a submarines, called to replace the aging classes Typhoon and Kalmarthat, without a doubt, it will also be of interest to the countries that support Ukraine against Russia ..
Borei submarines are the first built by Russia after the end of the Cold War and represent A jump in stealth capabilities with respect to the Soviet. They are a fundamental component of the Russian strategic nuclear triadwhat plans to build Six more units.