While it was reported in July 2022 that the vessel had been terminated, no official confirmation was expected until the end of the year. Dmitry Donskoy had a displacement of around 53,000 tons and was modernized and re-equipped in 2002 with the "Bulava" missile. Naval News Image by H I Sutton used with Permission. It was the first of six Akula-class Northern Fleet submarines laid down at the Sevmash shipyard in Severodvinsk on the White Sea which were commissioned in the 1980s.Īt 574 feet long, Dmitry Donskoy's status as the world's largest submarine was overtaken by the 608-feet-long Belgorod nuclear submarine, which was commissioned in July 2022. When a submarine hull collapses, it moves inward at about 1,500mph (2,414km/h) - thats 2,200ft (671m) per second, says Dave Corley, a former US nuclear submarine officer.
In 2021, Russia's state news agency Tass reported that the vessel would stay in service until 2026. There had been speculation for months about the fate of the submarine, which had been launched in 1980 and whose NATO reporting name was Typhoon. Russian military bloggers are losing their minds over reports that a Russian unit was blasted by artillery while waiting 2 hours for their commander to give a motivational speech Matthew Loh A.
The Russian Navy has confirmed it has decommissioned its nuclear-powered strategic submarine Dmitry Donskoy, which formed part of Moscow's formidable Cold War weapon system.
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