Soviet submarine K-123

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Name: K-123 Mars
Builder: Gorky
Laid down: 1989
Fate: Scrapped July 1992
General characteristics
Class and type: Sierra-class submarine
Displacement: 7,600 tons (surfaced)
9,100 tons (submerged)
Length: 364.2 ft (111.0 m)
Beam: 46.6 ft (14.2 m)
Propulsion: 1 × PWR, 190 MW
2 × 1002 hp emergency motors
1 shaft, 2 spinners
Speed: 10 knots (18.5 km/h) (surfaced)
32 knots (59.3 km/h) (submerged)
Range: Unlimited, except by food supplies
Complement: 61
Armament: 4 × 25.6 in (650 mm) torpedo tubes
4 × 21 in (530 mm) torpedo tubes
SS-N-21 Sampson SLCM with 200 kT nuclear warhead
SS-N-15 Starfish anti submarine weapon: 200 kT depth charge or 90 kg HE Type 40 torpedo
SS-N-16 Stallion, 200 kT depth charge or 90 kg HE Type 40 torpedo
Minelaying configuration: 42 mines instead of torpedoes

K-123 Mars was a Russian Sierra class submarine built at the Gorky shipyards. She was to be the third of the Sierra II class, but was scrapped before completion in July 1992.

[edit] References

  • Robert Hutchinson, Submarines, War Beneath The Waves, From 1776 To The Present Day


Sierra-class submarine

Projekt 945 Barrakuda ("Sierra I")
K-239 Tula (ex-Karp) | K-276 Krab

Projekt 945A Kondor ("Sierra II")
K-534 Pskov | K-336 Nizhny Novgorod (ex-Okun) | K-123 Mars

List of Soviet and Russian submarines
List of Soviet and Russian submarine classes