The second carrier "Poseidon" will be launched next year
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The Khabarovsk nuclear submarine, being built as the second full-time carrier of the Poseidon unmanned submarines, will be launched in the spring of 2020, and it is planned to transfer it to the customer in 2022. It is reported by TASS, citing a source in the military-industrial complex.
According to the agency interlocutor, the second regular carrier "Poseidon" - the submarine "Khabarovsk" of the 09851 project - is planned to be launched in the spring of 2020, and to complete the test cycle and transfer to the Russian Navy submarine - in 2022. The submarine will be the carrier of six uninhabited Poseidon underwater vehicles.
It is known that the nuclear submarine Khabarovsk was developed at the Rubin St. Petersburg Central Design Bureau for Marine Engineering and was launched in 2014. The technical data of the submarine is unknown, as well as the first carrier of the Poseidon - the nuclear submarine Belgorod, launched on April 23 this year. Belgorod plan to transfer the fleet at the end of next year.
Underwater strategic drone "Poseidon" is designed to destroy various targets, including aircraft carrier groups and coastal fortifications. The device is equipped with a nuclear power plant. It is able to dive to a depth of more than 1 km and has an unlimited range. It can be armed with a 2 kiloton nuclear warhead.
Earlier it was reported that the Ministry of Defense of the Russian Federation plans to adopt up to 32 Poseidons, creating four underwater carriers for them and placing two submarines with drones on two fleets - Northern and Pacific.
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