Borei Class Submarine

  • 5 years ago
The Borei class is a class of nuclear-powered ballistic missile submarine produced by Russia and operated by the Russian Navy. The class is intended to replace the Delta III, Delta IV and Typhoon classes now in Russian Navy service. The class is named after Boreas, the North wind. Borei is approximately 170 metres (560 ft) long, (some claimed the Borei is 574 ft long) 13 metres (43 ft) in diameter, and has a maximum submerged speed of at least 46 kilometres per hour. Cost is some 23 bln RUR ($890 million USD), in comparison the cost of an Ohio-class SSBN was around 2 billion USD per boat.

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