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Kashalot-class submarine
Class overview
Name: Kashalot
Builders: Soviet Union
Operators: Naval Ensign of the Soviet Union Soviet Navy
Naval Ensign of Russia Russian Navy
Built: 1977-1991
In service: 1986-
Planned: 3
Completed: 2
Cancelled: 1
Active: 1
Laid up: 1
General characteristics
Displacement: 1,390 tons normal surfaced/1,580 tons submerged
Length: 69 m (226 ft)
Beam: 7 m (23 ft)
Draft: 5.2 m (17 ft)
Propulsion: One pressurized-water nuclear reactor 1.5 MW (2,000 hp), 1 sets steam turbines; 10,000 shp (7,500 kW)
Speed: 10 knots (19 km/h; 12 mph) surfaced
30 knots (56 km/h; 35 mph) submerged
Complement: About 36
Sensors and
processing systems:

Radar: 1 Snoop Slab search

Sonar: HF active

The Kashalot class submarine, also known as Project 1910 and by the North Atlantic Treaty Organisation as the Uniform class submarine, is a class of research and special operations submarine constructed by the Soviet Union during the late 1970s and early 1980s.[1]

Two boats of the class were constructed, AS-13 and AS-15, with the first boat of the class being laid down in 1977 and commissioned in 1986, the second being laid down in 1983 but not commissioned until 1991.[1] A third class boat, AS-12, reached the fitting-out stage before being cancelled in 1998.[1]

Displacing 1,580 tons submerged, the Kashalot class was constructed using a single titanium hull design, and is powered by a nuclear reactor; they were the first Soviet nuclear-powered submarines to have a single hull.[1] The boats each have a crew of 36 officers and men.[1]

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Citations
  1. 1.0 1.1 1.2 1.3 1.4 Wertheim 2007, p.610.
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