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- From: Steven.Schultz <Steven.Schultz@mixcom.mixcom.com>
- Subject: Re: foxtrot-class ex-soviet sub ?
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- From Steven.Schultz <Steven.Schultz@mixcom.mixcom.com>
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- Foxtrot-class
- Project 641
- Manufacturer: Sudomekh Shipyard No. 196, United Admiralty Association,
- St. Petersburg, Russia, C.I.S.
- Number of units: approx. 40
- Years built: 1958-1973
- Displacement: 1,950 tons surfaced; 2,400 tons submerged
- Length: 295 ft 3 in (90.0 m) waterline
- 300 ft 2 in (91.5 m) overall
- Beam: 24 ft 7 in (7.5 m)
- Draft: 20 ft (6.1 m)
- Propulsion: 3 37D diesel engines in early units and 2D42 diesel
- engines in later units; 6,000 b.h.p.; 3 electric motors,
- 5,300 s.h.p.; three shafts
- Speed: 16 knots surfaced; 15.5 knots submerged
- Range: 20,000 n. miles surfaced at economical speed; 11,000 n. miles
- on snorkel at 8 knots
- 350 n.miles submerged at 2 knots
- Depth: 985 ft (300 m)
- Complement: 78 (8 officers and 70 enlisted)
- Missiles: None
- Torpedo tubes: 10 21 in (533 mm) M-57: 6 bow + 4 stern in early units
- later units have 4 15.75 in (400 mm) tubes stern
- Torpedos: 22
- Mines: 44 can be carried instead of torpedos
- Radar: Snoop Tray
- Snoop Slab refitted in some units
- Sonar: Herkules medium-frequency
- Feniks passive
- EW systems: Stop Light
- Endurance: approx. 70 days
- Users: 59 for Soviet Union (40 believed in service with C.I.S.)
- 3 for Cuba, ex-Soviet transferred in 1979, 1980, 1984
- 8 for India, Kursura-class, first delivered in 1968
- 6 for Libya, Al Badr-class, ex-Soviet transerred 1976-1983
- Notes:
- These subs were designed as a successor to the Zulu-class, and the
- second largest conventional attack sub built by any nation since WW
- II. Some estimates have said production was 80. There is no way,
- cuurently, to varify. Some may have been lost. The subs are
- double-hull configuration, with the pressure hull diameter approx. 13
- ft 2 in (4 m). There are several different limber-hole configurations.
- Fuel capacity is 360 tons.
- Some units have been converted in oceanographic research. When they
- have been, they have been seen with "star" names on their sail, which
- include: Globus, Saturn, Sirius, and Regul.
- Names:
- Known Soveit names were to honor young Communist groups (Komsomol):
- Chelyabinskiy Komsomolets; Komsomolets Kazakhstana; Kuibishevskiy
- Komsomolets; Magnitogorskiy Komsomolets; Ul'yanovskiy Komsomolets;
- Vladimirskiy Komsomolets; Yaroslavskiy Komsomolets.
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- Steve Schultz Steven.Schultz@mixcom.com
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