After years of delay, the submarine will be handed over to the Navy on May 7th. The official raising of the flag will take place at the Sevmash Court in Severodvinsk, in which the Commander-in-Chief of the Russian Navy, Admiral Nikolai Evmenov, will take part.
The acceptance papers, with which the ship was brought from the shipyard to the Navy, were signed on Tuesday this week, said the Navy’s information department in a statement.
Since it was first delivered to the Navy in 2017, the submarine has been notoriously delayed. A planned delivery in 2018 was postponed to 2019. This year it was again announced that the “Kazan” would likely take all of 2020 to repair a number of ancillary parts and assemblies that did not meet requirements set by the Department of Tactics and Defense, the Barents Observer reported at the time.
At the beginning of February this year, the head of the United Shipbuilding Corporation, Aleksey Rakhmanov, announced a new date for the handover. He told RIA Novosti: “The leading nuclear submarine” Kazan “can be handed over to the Russian Navy on February 26th.” The Barents Observer later reported another delay.
The construction of “Kazan” began in 2009. The submarine is the first series production of the Yasen M-class and differs from the prototype of the “Severodvinsk” submarine in that it has more digital and advanced control systems.
The Yasen-M-class nuclear-powered multipurpose submarines will carry the advanced marine version of the calibr, Oniks cruise missiles, and likely the hypersonic zircon, as well as torpedoes and surface-to-air missiles.
Other ships of the class currently being built at the Sevmash Shipyard are “Novosibirsk”, “Arkhangelsk”, “Krasnoyarsk”, “Perm”, “Ulyanovsk”, “Voronezh” and “Vladivostok”.
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The “Kazan” will probably be stationed in Zapadnaya Litsa, the westernmost submarine base of the Northern Fleet near the border with Norway. “Severodvinsk” has a home port here.
Four Yasen M-class submarines are expected to sail for the Northern Fleet, while the other four are destined for the Pacific Fleet.
The Yasen M-class is considered to be the most expensive and technically advanced in the Russian Navy.
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