“Today is a significant day for the entire Navy,” Commander-in-Chief Admiral Aleksandr Moiseev said at the official ceremony that took place on Friday.
The Arkhangelsk is the forth of the Yasen-M class built in Severodvinsk. Two are already sailing for the Pacific Fleet, while the third, the Kazan, belongs to the Northern Fleet. Including the prototype vessel of the Yasen class, the Severodvinsk, the new Arkhangelsk will be the third of the class deployed with the Northern Fleet.
Yasen and Yasen-M class are 4th generation multipurpose nuclear-powered submarines in the Russia navy. The Arkhangelsk (K-562) was rolled out of the ship hall at Sevmash in late November last year and has spent the last 13 months on sea trials, including navigation and weapons testings in the White Sea and Barents Sea.
Admiral Moiseev praised the onboard weapons systems and said they are “capable of hitting both sea and coast targets.”
The Yasen-M class can carry Kalibr and Oniks cruise missiles, but more important for the navy is arming these new submarines with the Tsirkon hypersonic cruise missiles, a weapon key for Russia in the ongoing naval arms race with NATO. Läs artikel