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K-496 Borisoglebsk is a Russian advanced Delta III SSBN nuclear submarine. On 21 June 2005 the vessel served as the launch platform for a missile carrying a payload containing a solar sail experiment, Cosmos 1. The submarine was based in the Russian Northern Fleet. In early December 2008 Borisoglebsk was decommissioned from the fleet and was getting ready to be scrapped.[3][needs update]
History | |
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Soviet Union, Russia | |
Name | Borisoglebsk |
Laid down | 23 September 1975 |
Launched | 13 August 1977 |
Completed | 30 December 1977 |
Decommissioned | December 2008 |
Fate | To be dismantled |
General characteristics [1][2] | |
Class and type | Delta III-class submarine |
Displacement |
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Length | 155 m (509 ft) |
Beam | 11.7 m (38 ft) |
Draught | 8.7 m (29 ft) |
Depth |
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Propulsion | Reactor system OK-700A (two VM-4S (2*90 MW) PWR) powering 2 steam turbines delivering 44,700 kW (59,900 shp) to 2 five-bladed fixed pitched shrouded propellers |
Speed |
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Range | Unlimited, except by food supplies |
Complement | 40 officers, 90 enlisted |
Armament |
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