SSGN thread (Ohio, Oscar and other dedicated SSGNs)

Miragedriver

Miragedriver

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Officially, Belgorod is estimated to be 75% complete. It has the complete hull, launchers, reactor installed, the works. However, unofficial news have been neither here, nor there. There is information that it is being slowly scrapped, other information that it is just being maintained "as is", and other information that it is being modified to carry some new weaponry (which I don't believe).

What is almost 100% certain is that it will never sail according to original design (it's main arsenal, Granit missiles are no longer in production).

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Back to bottling my Grenache
 
Jeff Head

Jeff Head

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Miragedriver said:
Officially, Belgorod is estimated to be 75% complete. It has the complete hull, launchers, reactor installed, the works. However, unofficial news have been neither here, nor there.

What is almost 100% certain is that it will never sail according to original design (it's main arsenal, Granit missiles are no longer in production).

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Great pics.

Yes, it is not being used as an SSGN, but I am pretty sure that is was launched and commissioned. As I understood it, it got a special fit out to be used for special missions.

As it is, the Russian Navyu has four Oscars that are active and in service, and another two either waiting for, or in overhaul.

Northern Fleet:
K119 Voronezh, active and in service, completed overhaul in 2011
K410 Smolensk, active and in service,completed overhaul in 2013
K266 Orel, inactive, in overhaul. Caught fire in April 2015.

Pacific Fleet:
K186 Omsk, active and in service,completed overhaul in 2008
K456 Vilyuchinsk, active and in service.
K442 Chelyabinsk, inactive, awaiting overhaul.

There are two others that were never completed and are still there:

K-135 Volgograd, incomplete, construction restarted
K-165 Barnaul, incomplete, never launched
 
FORBIN

FORBIN

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Yasen, TL on the sides, same location as the US SSN, number annouced 6 x 533 mm for 885 variant and 8 for 885M ( 2nd unit and others ).
He was also announced up to 10 like on this picture.

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FORBIN

FORBIN

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Ohio SSGN
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We see clearly the doors for the 11 VLS on this side of the hull and the DDS, Ohio can carry up to 2 DDS others DDS capable submarines are 2 LA in service, Virginia and Carter, UK Astute also.
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The
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's DDSs are 11.6 meters (38 feet) long by 2.7 meters (9 feet) high and wide, add about 30 tons to its host submarine's submerged displacement, can be transported by trucks or
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aircraft, and require one to three days to install and test. They have three
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steel sections within the outer
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(GRP) fairing: a spherical
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at the forward end to treat injured divers; a smaller spherical transfer trunk;
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and a cylindrical hangar with elliptical ends. The hangar can support a
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(SDV), four
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to man the SDV, and a crew of
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to operate the DDS and launch the SDV; or 20 SEALs with four
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(CRRC). The SDV release team consists of 2 officers, 2 enlisted technicians, and 18 divers.
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The two SEAL delivery vehicle teams report to
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There are currently six portable dry deck shelters in use by the USN, the first one built by
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. The first, designated DDS-01S ("S" for starboard opening outer door), was completed in 1982. The remaining five, DDS-02P ("P" for port opening), -03P, -04S, -05S, and -06P, were built between 1987 and 1991 and were built by
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The shelters are maintained by a combined effort of navy divers stationed on the teams and workers of the maintenance company
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They have expected useful lives of about 40 years each.
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