Charlie class submarine
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The Charlie Class submarines were a class of nuclear cruise missile submarines (SSGN) built for the Soviet Navy. The Soviet Designation was Project 670 Skat (Skate), a modified version called the Project 670M by the soviets was given the Nato reporting name Charlie II. These submarines were designed by the Lazurit design bureau and built in Gorkiy (now Nizhny Novgorod) on the Volga River. These boats had a steel hull and a single reactor and were a cheaper version of the Papa class submarine
[edit] General Characteristics
From Conway's All The World's Fighting Ships 1947-1995
- Displacement: 4000 tons surfaced, 4900 tons submerged (Project 670M 4300 tons surfaced, 5100 tons submerged)
- Length: 95m (project 670M 103m)
- Beam: 10 m
- Draught: 8 m
- Machinery: 1 shaft nuclear, 1 reactor (type 1 VM-5), 15,000 hp 24 knots
- Armament: 8 SS-N-7 anti shipping missile tubes ( Project 670M SS-N-9), 4 - 533 torpedo tubes, 2 - 406 torpedo tubes
- Sensors: Radar - Snoop Tray, Sonar- Shark Teeth
- Crew: 100
[edit] Ships
- 12 Project 670 (Charlie I) submarines were built between 1968 and 1973, K-43 was leased to the Indian Navy as the Chakra from 1988 to 1992, K-429 sank near Petropavlovsk Kamchatsky in 1983 with 16 fatalities, but was raised as used as a harbour training hulk
- 6 Project 670M (Charlie II) submarines were built between 1973 and 1980
All ships were scrapped between 1990 and 1994
[edit] References
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Projekt 670A Skat (Charlie-I, all Pacific Fleet) |
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Projekt 670M Skat-M (Charlie-II, all Northern Fleet) |
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