Russia's Giant Nuclear Torpedo-Carrying Submarine Declared Operational

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The shadowy K-329 Belgorod, the world’s longest submarine, which was designed to carry nuclear-powered, nuclear-tipped, long-range torpedoes, is now in service with the Russian Navy.

The Belgorod was turned over to that nation's sea service in a ceremony at the Sevmash shipyard in Severodvisnk Friday, according to the Sevmash website.

Touted by the Russians as a “research” vessel able to conduct “diverse scientific expeditions and rescue operations in the most remote areas of the World Ocean,” Belgorod is, in reality, a massive underwater weapons system that can deliver devastating strike capability and serve as a mothership for a host of undersea platforms. A highly modified Oscar II-class nuclear-powered guided-missile submarine, Belgorod is about 600 feet long, has two OK-650V nuclear power plants capable of providing 190 megawatts each, and has an undersea displacement of nearly 24,000 tons, according to GlobalSecurity.org.

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Belgorod will apparently be the first boat to be armed with the 2M39 Status-6 or "Poseidon" intercontinental nuclear-powered, nuclear-armed autonomous torpedoes, of which it can carry six.

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/world/russias-giant-nuclear-torpedo-carrying-submarine-declared-operational/ar-AAZmUSw

Since your conventional sources suck you'll build a doomsday weapon instead.

[captain queeg]

1. Pretty impressive. Hopefully the admirals didn't use a bunch of shortcuts to line their own pockets

And will provide the money to keep it running safely. Cripes its approaching the size of a battlecruiser.

[C_U_L8R]

2. Looks like a massive target

for swarms of 21st century submersible drones.

[dutch777]

3. Probably noisy as heck and a giant magnetic displacement

Suspect she will be tracked easily and relentlessly and never get in range of a major fleet. Bigger worry may be the ability to send one of those torpedoes up the Thames or Chesapeake Bay.

[sl8]

4. Note that the torpedo's range is over 6,000 statute miles. nt