The US Navy ordered the construction of nine submarines of the Virginia type, a new modification of Block V

SSN 791 Delaware nuclear submarine - 18 i-th account Virginia and the eighth block III modification

The US Navy will soon be armed with nine new Virginia-type multipurpose submarines of a new Block V. The contract for the construction of submarines was issued on December 2 to General Dynamics Electric Boat Corp. (GDEB, part of General Dynamics Corporation).

The new agreement, which provides for the construction in the interests of the U.S. Navy of nine nuclear submarines of the Virginia Block V type with an additional option for another submarine, provides for the commissioning of all ordered submarines in the U.S. Navy from 2025 to 2029 years (by 31 August 2029 years). The cost of the long-term contract is 22,21 billion, and taking into account the construction of the tenth, 24,097 billion.

Under the contract, eight out of nine new submarines should be equipped with Virginia Payload Module (VPM) weapons modules.

The difference between Virginia Block V submarines and previous modifications is the installation of an additional section about 70 feet (21 m) long in the submarine’s hull with four Virginia Payload Module (VPM) modules. Each of the four modules has seven Tomahawk cruise missile launchers. Given the two launchers for six missiles stored in the bow of the boat, the submarine can carry up to 40 cruise missiles in vertical launchers.

In addition, VPMs can be used to accommodate other types of advanced weapons, as well as remote-controlled and autonomous underwater vehicles, as well as means of transport for combat swimmers.

The total length of the boat Virginia Block V in comparison with previous versions will increase from 115 m to 138 m, and the total underwater displacement - from 7900 to 10200 tons.

Given the contract, the entire US Navy has ordered to date the construction of 37 submarines of the Virginia type of various modifications. The composition of the American fleetSince 2004, 18 submarines have already entered, of which: four Block I series, six Block II series and eight Block III series. It is expected that the Navy will include ten submarines of the Block IV series and nine Block V.

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[cniza]

The US Navy ordered the construction of nine submarines of the Virginia type, a new modification of Block V

The flywheel spins ...

[Victor_B]

Quote: cniza

The flywheel spins ...

Yeah-ah-uhhh!
We also have to shell out ...
Just think, do we need an aircraft carrier?
Maybe it's better to plan the ICAPL? Instead.

[cniza]

We don’t need to get involved, they count on it ...

[Neznaika]

Yes, with what kind of cones to get involved?
If military budgets are not comparable?

[Starper-xnumx]

Quote: cniza

We don’t need to get involved, they count on it ...

You’re right Victor is pulling us into this race .. (as in the days of the USSR, SDI, etc.)

Quote: Neznaika

Yes, with what kind of cones to get involved?
If military budgets are not comparable?

And you would be silent dear, we know how these US-Israel budgets are formed and due to what and whom ...
How would your machine there overheated in the reserve fund ..
Or have they launched a couple of green printing factories ..?

[g1v2]

And where does it get involved? Their moose is written off gradually. By this very year, 29, in theory, they should write off almost all moose. And converted into Ohio Tomahawk carriers. That is, the list of fleets will drop by 2 dozen squares at least, or maybe more. With these pledged virgins, the United States will have 37 Virginia and 3 Sivulfs left. 40 pieces against 57 now. The United States also needs to be mortgaged by Virginia, but the question is - will Congress give them money for this? After all, the main thing is that they need to change Ohio in Colombia. But they are not young at all and soon they will have to start writing off. And Columbia is not even visible in the near future.

[Sky strike fighter]

We have cautious optimism. After all, 16 RCC Volcano has the cruiser Moscow.

Project 1164 guards missile cruiser “Moscow”, code “Atlant”, is planned to be put to sea in December 2019, after the completion of the next stage of repair of the main power plant. About it Mil.Press reported two informed industry sources.

The ship is undergoing repairs with the restoration of marching readiness at the 13th shipyard.

At present, four gas turbine generators and two gearboxes have been repaired, and a power plant has been repaired, including fuel equipment and gas ducts of marching gas turbine engines.

http://in24.org/technology/37955

[cniza]

We have no other way, we need everything that can be modernized and slowly updated.

[rocket757]

Quote: cniza

We have no other way, we need everything that can be modernized and slowly updated.

Keep ready the weapons of retaliation \ retaliation .... otherwise, nothing at all.
For the rest, work, invent, create and move forward.

[cniza]

Yes, but a generation is growing up that believes that a limited vigorous war can be waged, how will they explain that this is not possible?

[rocket757]

Quote: cniza

Yes, but a generation is growing up that believes that a limited vigorous war can be waged, how will they explain that this is not possible?

I know, I feel that they are trying to inspire false feelings that it will always be possible to restart, cook in computer shootings! Very false, but such ... shorter dangerous.

[cniza]

Therefore, no fun times may come ..

[rocket757]

I want to believe that a critical moment will not come.
Too many different events.
While we will see.

[Grandfather]

The US Navy ordered the construction of nine submarines of the Virginia type, a new modification of Block V

the budget allows .. not like ours. we have colonels in the garages .... uh .... what am I talking about ... ah! about the fact that we muzhYk, so not to keep up with the "virgins", we need to invent something radical, and there are "no analogues" there are also "wolves" ... and "old" "Losanzhnles" ... "Rudolph and UDAV KAA" dear , - respond and say. otherwise amateurs will fill the void.

[Grandfather]

inhabitants of continental Russia, there are no people on the site, as I understand it, Latvians and the hedgehog are the only ones with them - minusers!

[Starper-xnumx]

Quote: rocket757

I want to believe that a critical moment will not come.
Too many different events.
While we will see.

there are watchers .. heh heh

Quote: Dead Day

the budget allows .. not like ours. we have colonels in the garages .... uh .... what am I talking about ... ah! about the fact that we muzhYk, so not to keep up with the "virgins", we need to invent something radical, and there are "no analogues" there are also "wolves" ... and "old" "Losanzhnles" ... "Rudolph and UDAV KAA" dear , - respond and say. otherwise amateurs will fill the void.

Here they are all in hysterics ....

Quote: Dead Day

inhabitants of continental Russia, there are no people on the site, as I understand it, Latvians and the hedgehog are the only ones with them - minusers!

Well, I'm a minuser once, so what? What a universal cry., Already heard in the Urals? he he

[rocket757]

These are just the costs, the consequences of the SYSTEM which we have overbearing.
The system does not change, everything remains the same.

[Viktor Afanasev]

Absolutely agree. There is money, but it is passing by ... THE SYSTEM will never allow the normal development of shipbuilding, and after a few years it will be too late to make up ... The future lies with technologies, and they are born by EDUCATION, SCIENCE and PRODUCTION, which we have in desolation ... But financiers cannot build a ship ...

[rocket757]

Quote: Viktor Afanasev

There is money, but they are passing by ... THE SYSTEM will not give normal development

For the MAIN SYSTEM, make a person 100% dependent on it! Then she will turn the man, the company as she wants!
The methodology is worked out, ours just dragged it here!
Nothing will change ... the system does not need / is dangerous, a person who thinks, is independent, who has realized and is fighting for his rights ...
Only we ourselves, all together, can change something, if we get together, we realize that only by uniting we can make our life better! Therefore, the system kicks the liber "opposition" publicly, but almost gently, and the true manifestation of the workers' association, for a real struggle for their rights, crushes UNRESSELY!
Such is ce la vie.

[Xnumx vis]

Quote: cniza

Yes, but a generation is growing up that believes that a limited vigorous war can be waged, how will they explain that this is not possible?

It looks like there are parallel realities in the country ... Here is an excerpt from an article on the Sevastopol Internet portal Forpost ..--- "Journalists of the Sevastopol news portal ForPost in Moscow learned from the residents of the capital that they really think about the reunification of Sevastopol and Crimea with Russia.

And the guys asked the Muscovites what they would choose for the rest: Crimea or Turkey?

The answers are unexpected, and even paradoxical in some cases. To appreciate this, be sure to watch the video to the end. Https: //sevastopol.su/news/moskvichi-otkrovenno-priznalis-chto-dumayut-o-kryme ...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hOw5XflNc9s&feature=emb_logo

[Grandfather]

Quote: 30 vis

The answers are unexpected, and even paradoxical.

I will not look at it, bad forebodings.

[cniza]

To appreciate this, be sure to watch the video before

What did you mean ? , but on the topic have something to say?

[Ingvar 72]

Quote: 30 vis

what they really think about the reunification of Sevastopol and Crimea with Russia.

Such videos need to be shot non-stop, and nothing else. And this is an obvious ordering and sampling.

[Xnumx vis]

Probably . And journalists from Sevastopol made a throw-in for the townspeople. De, look here, how the capital's inhabitants relate to Sevastopol and the Crimea ... Pebbles from the slope started up ... They will continue to roll up half-dead information ... Yes, 90 percent of my friends from Moscow and St. Petersburg support Sevastopol and Crimea .. But the residents distant regions (Yekaterinburg, Birobidzhan) listened with disbelief to me and the Russian Spring ... They thought that everything was invented, the Kremlin propaganda ... I told them, listened carefully, were surprised ...

[Starper-xnumx]

Quote: cniza

We have no other way, we need everything that can be modernized and slowly updated.

Everything is true without panic and racing for excellence ..
I wonder who Viktor so vigorously minuses you?
Here are the infections, you kind of modestly write .. hehe

[Alexander Petrov1]

Here they have nowhere to put money printed ...

[The leader of the Redskins]

But they will build it if the mantras of those who pray for the economic collapse of the mattress do not come true! So, right in a series and not small, how can I judge ...

[Nastia makarova]

yes let them build, we do not need a race

[orionvitt]

Quote: Leader of the Redskins

But they will build it if the mantras of those who pray for the economic collapse of the mattress do not come true!

And what to pray if all the experts as one point to 2020? The financial bubble cannot be inflated indefinitely, you must understand this. Russia is purposefully withdrawing its investments in US debt securities and buying gold. Is it easy? Well, okay, let's see. And on the question they will build, so still the same is unknown. The further, the more with a creak. They have not been able to bring their last aircraft carrier to their senses for five years, and the rest are simply repaired. And before they were riveted like scooters. It already comes to the ridiculous when an aircraft carrier group goes to sea without an aircraft carrier. And this is in "almighty" America.

[Ingvar 72]

Quote: orionvitt

It’s impossible to infinitely inflate a financial bubble, you must understand this

They have a good expansion tank in the form of a global economy.

Quote: orionvitt

Russia purposefully withdraws its investments in US debt securities and buys gold.

Nevertheless, it supports the dollar, selling resources almost entirely for greens.

[orionvitt]

Quote: Ingvar 72

They have a good expansion tank in the form of a global economy.

Well, well, let's look at your "expansion tank". When your global economy goes to hell, don't forget to unsubscribe if you're an honest person.

[Ingvar 72]

Do you think I'm worried about pendos or something?
No, I will only be glad about it. But unfortunately this will happen soon, the reasons I have described.

[sleeve]

Hmm ... 40 missiles. Are they only now pulled up to 885A?

[voyaka uh]

On Virginia, Block 5 will be the sum of:
38 missiles and torpedoes. Torpedoes up to 14 (4 launchers), the rest - missiles (up to 24).
12 + 12 launchers.

[Oleg83]

Quote: voyaka uh

On Virginia, Block 5 will be the sum of:
38 missiles and torpedoes. Torpedoes up to 14 (4 launchers), the rest - missiles (up to 24).
12 + 12 launchers.

Even you did not count. There are currently 4 torpedo tubes (26 torpedoes) and 2 vertical turret-type launchers (6 missiles each) in Virginia, i.e. 12 rockets.
In series 5, 4 vertical launchers will be added (7 missiles each), i.e. another 28 missiles, and there will be 40 in total, which is exactly what the article says:

The difference between Virginia Block V submarines and previous modifications is the installation of an additional section about 70 feet (21 m) long in the submarine’s hull with four Virginia Payload Module (VPM) modules. Each of the four modules has seven Tomahawk cruise missile launchers. Given the two launchers for six missiles stored in the bow of the boat, the submarine can carry up to 40 cruise missiles in vertical launchers.

[voyaka uh]

So I got confused with Blocks and torpedoes

[Avior]

As far as I understand, there can be more missiles if you shoot them. Through a torpedo tube

[Vladimir_2U]

I can not imagine a turret on a submarine. Unless the launch is at the very surface, or a movable drum, something like a gun.

[Grandfather]

Quote: voyaka uh

On Virginia, Block 5 will be the sum of:
38 missiles and torpedoes. Torpedoes up to 14 (4 launchers), the rest - missiles (up to 24).
12 + 12 launchers.

stupidly "antidote" is needed.

[Victor_B]

The US Navy ordered the construction of nine submarines of the Virginia type, a new modification of Block V

To walk - so to walk!

[Alien From]

Like it or not, this is alarming information!

[sleeve]

Why is it alarming? Launch speed "LA" these beauties will be given parity in the reserve, together with the construction time frame. And such an interesting factor: apparently, now the MAPL will not be enough for a pair cover of the AUG and single escort of SSBNs. That is, we have a tendency to reduce the operational units of sworn friends. Already, and one does not pull the ball ... Or frames. We have up to 30 years, if 26 (971,885,949,975 projects) will last, then it will not be equal to debt. And there, and "Husky" and in her case, it is enough just to start a series of drive slowly, replacing the existing "good". And here the "breadth" of the operational deployment will play a cruel joke on the Nevi, which in Russian vernacular claims that the pants are not strong if the step is incorrectly calculated. What good news in general))) And why, under the "axes" are mines? Where is the hypersound? Where is the hint that they will become "carriers"? I don’t recognize our neighbors on the planet ... Maybe they forgot to write in a hurry?

[Andrei from Chelyabinsk]

What kind of fantasy is this? :) By the number of MAPLs, we have already lagged behind by multiple, that is, forever. And the gap will widen

[sleeve]

Well, not a multiple of course. Significantly yes. I’m saying that the statistics of input-output is starting to please. Given the size of the control zones, the mood improves.

[Andrei from Chelyabinsk]

Quote: sleeve

Well, not a multiple of course. Significantly yes.

That is not significant, but a multiple. In the middle of that year, we had 26 MAPLs, of which a large number of slow-moving, the Americans had 64.

Quote: sleeve

I’m saying that I / O statistics is starting to please

Given the fact that according to existing statistics, by 2030 the number of our MAPL will be reduced to 17, you, most likely, are the enemy of the people :)

[Essex62]

Yes. And what kind of hypersound are we talking about?
And after all they will build minke whales, on our head. We'll have to create a real revolution, real, not cartoony. And what kind of shisha? Another 5 years to push the pension back to the slaves? So this resource is exhausted, Yellowstone has slept something ...

[Vadim237]

What kind of hypersound we are talking about - hypersonic anti-ship missiles in dimensions similar to Caliber and in Russia the creation of new torpedoes and anti-torpedo protection continues, as well as the construction of submarines.

[Essex62]

I am also a patriot and also believe wholeheartedly. Yeah.
Our nouveau riche interests are more modest than the impudent predators. The pipe shakes, the yachts are being built, the children behind the tubercle are warm and safe. What boats in series? It was said - it was, if that - the whole world in ruins

[Grandfather]

Quote: Essex62

I am also a patriot and also believe wholeheartedly. Yeah.
Our nouveau riche interests are more modest than the impudent predators. The pipe shakes, the yachts are being built, the children behind the tubercle are warm and safe. What boats in series? It was said - it was, if that - the whole world in ruins

and minus I can’t play it, because the truth cuts the heart, one hope for it, it is increasingly .. less often .. cuts.

[Grandfather]

Quote: Andrey from Chelyabinsk

What kind of fantasy is this? :)

You are Old here, do you react to such a "empty"? getting old

[Grandfather]

Quote: Dead Day

Quote: Andrey from Chelyabinsk

What kind of fantasy is this? :)

You are Old here, do you react to such a "empty"? getting old

have you seen? immediately "zhahnul" minus ... stingy "pentagon" became, traffic counts by seconds ...

[Good_Anonymous]

The total length of the boat Virginia Block V in comparison with previous versions will increase from 115 m to 138 m, and the total underwater displacement - from 7900 to 10200 tons.

Is this exactly the boat of the same type?

[Arthur 85]

And I wrote somewhere: what prevents to lengthen our frigate or corvette by 20 meters, and put another 8 * N UVP "Caliber"? Silence was my answer ... And the Americans, it began, can weld a launcher into the submarine (!), And something interferes with us, into the surface ship ...

[Blackmokona]

Americans do not like to change types. Look, for example, Falcon-9 of different blocks differ in size and weight of the displayed load in half, only when you change the dimensions, Hornet added the prefix Super, etc.

[pl675]

Quote: sleeve

Hmm ... 40 missiles. Are they only now pulled up to 885A?

there is google, there is a lot of things in open sources, ranging from a comparison of noise and ending with the parity of "classmates", your "40 missiles" is nothing.

[sleeve]

About the "parity" of classmates "not a little bit ... The meaning of the concept in the sense." Noise "? And I do not know the data ... And who prints them, then most likely a science fiction writer or a very self-confident person. terribly dependent on the external environment ... Controversial is shorter. Here is the detection range of a piece necessary. I am more worried about their superiority in torpedo weapons ... In applied weapons, so to speak. Yes ... This is a serious lag. Also, of course, there is a potential for construction. Here I am amazed at the plans and timing ... I cherish the hope that the shipbuilding "navel" rattled. Still, the ratio of 1 to 1,5 is too much for us now, although we are equally forced to divide the wallpaper in half. But here is 1 to 1,1, XNUMX will be better, it is already the impossibility of concentrating the strike group.

[pl675]

Nevertheless, the ratio of 1k to 1,5 is a bit much for us now, although we are equally compelled to divide everything in half.

where 1k 1.5 hesitate to ask?
Counted - does not converge.
if you are interested in the state of our fleet, lighthouse in PM, I will throw off the sensible information.

[gabonskijfront]

We don’t have critical sea communications, according to Haushofer’s theory, we are Hartland. Therefore, by and large, this does not threaten us, and any projection of force from the sea to the mainland is always many times more expensive than its neutralization. Not one aircraft carrier can be compared with an air regiment based on a stationary aerodrome and one coastal missile complex neutralizes the squadron of URO ships.

[Herman 4223]

And if there is an island near the coast? For example, Sakhalin. The fleet can cut off this island, land on it, capture it. Air defense facilities, field airfields are deployed on the island, and the blockade from the sea of ​​Vladivostok is provided with the same cheap means.

[gabonskijfront]

Cutting off, landing, seizing, and deploying on Sakhalin is, first of all, a colossal logistic operation, with constant opposition to even a weaker enemy, this is unrealistic.

[Herman 4223]

But war at sea usually happens like that. What during the Second World War, what in a later period. For example, the war between Argentina and Britain. At first, Argentina landed on the islands, though it was paid, it didn’t deploy on the islands of the Air Force, and the aircraft carrier did not pull up either. Then the landing fleet landed the British fleet, from the logistics, neither of them did not die.

[gabonskijfront]

80% of Argentinean missiles and bombs simply didn’t work, and the British were on the verge of collapse having lost 6 sunken ships and 7 disabled. During the landing, the Argentines made a raid and half of the British landing ships got hit but not a single detonated detonated, if only one worked then everything would have happened differently.

[Avior]

They would work if planes flew higher, but then planes would be shot down
And at low, the locking system did not work for security purposes

[Herman 4223]

It would be strange if there were no losses at all. If Argentina deployed its Air Force there, and did not fly 800 km from the mainland, then it would be very difficult to land troops there. And so the landing there in any case would have landed, even if the first attempt failed. There were no chances to keep.

[sleeve]

How is Sakhalin "cut off"? Than? Submarines? So there, in the Tatarsky Strait, it is not very deep right there. And the strait itself is so-so to overcome. In general, of course, there is a desire to look at the logistical support for the landing of at least one brigade (of course, not enough for Sakhalin, but let it be). Kuril Islands can start taking away? That will be a circus! Noise and a fight to the ceiling, the result is "newspaper" no more ... But even then it's hard. Even worse than Sakhalin. The spaces are "open". And why should they "block" Vladivostok? What's the use of this, except for the massacre in the Gulf of Peter the Great by missile and aircraft? We do not need it especially in a "bad" time to supply either Sakhalin (narrow strait, near the mouth of the Amur) or P-Kamchatsky ("rear" Magadan with the railway and the same mouth of the Amur). And the Kuril Islands are initially preparing for the "autonomy".

[askort154]

In my opinion, the Americans decided to follow the previously beaten path which,
according to their vision, the “arms race” strategy led to the collapse of the USSR.
That is, they did not throw out this rake, and try to climb on them again.
And the engine has already left. Russia didn’t fall apart further, which they naively expected, but recovered using the USSR’s achievements in the military-industrial complex.
And even, in many respects it came off. In addition, in the international military arena, a new player has sprung up - China, which cleverly licks all the cream
in military technology. So, chase leadership in armaments, USA
it is necessary not only with the Russian Federation, but also with China. Will the American "Budvar" survive,
two? Judging by the way Trump abruptly pushes NATO members to pay 4% of their GDP, and now they do not pay 2%, the arms race
to a new round, the US will not succeed. Pumped up through the media of Hollywood filming,
about the "US space missile defense" of the 80s, already in the 21st century will not "pan out".
As a result, the US back hemispheres will be scattered if they decide to arrange an arms race in the 22nd century.

[maden.usmanow]

China needs 50 years to reach the current level of the US Navy.
Only the present.
What race are you talking about.

[Oyo Sarkazmi]

That is, to have only one and a half operational aircraft carrier and 70 lost ballistic missiles?

[Doctor]

In my opinion, the Americans decided to follow the previously beaten path which,
according to their vision, the “arms race” strategy led to the collapse of the USSR.

Not certainly in that way. They decided on the quantitative composition of the fleet for their tasks. And calmly, in a planned manner, update structural units to more advanced ones.

[DAC scratch]

Well, it’s they who are still developing Colombia in parallel, they give in, hard workers

[Herman 4223]

From 25 to 29 years old, this results in two nuclear-powered cruisers a year, their normal pace in construction.

[Oyo Sarkazmi]

And then they will bring them to working condition for 20 years. The example of aircraft carriers and manned spacecraft pleases.

[Herman 4223]

Vryatli, this is an already mastered product of the industry. Just upgraded.

[Operator]

Submarine Virginia - a moderately plump and loudly grunting hog for our Laeks

[Sailor]

Why do you think so? Virginia is quieter than our Ashen, at least at speeds above 6 knots.

[Operator]

Did I mention "Ash"?

[Good_Anonymous]

Quote: Operator

Submarine Virginia - a moderately plump and loudly grunting hog for our Laeks

Is Likes a Husky? For them, no one is anything, because they themselves do not exist.

[Doctor]

They suggest what kind of surface fleet Russia needs. Throughout the twentieth century, with the aggravation of the situation, they began to convulsively strengthen the PLO. In WWII, even boats were driven across the ocean from the United States. In the North, German submarines reached the mouth of the Lena. And not only Russia. The British had the same problems, only larger by an order of magnitude. In the 20st century, the same thing. In the history of the Kursk, it is still unclear whether or not there were American nuclear submarines in the area.
First of all, normal PLO frigates. Two brigades for the Northern Fleet and Pacific Fleet.

[maden.usmanow]

And the reality is completely different, as you know.
We’ll wake up the aircraft carriers. But with this horde of submarines what to do.
Zircons and Gauges are useless.
RTOs are useless
Aviation PLO cat cried.
And at the borders it was the submarines, not the aircraft carriers

[Doctor]

And at the borders it was the submarines, not the aircraft carriers

Yes sir. Moreover, nuclear submarines are the carriers of the most powerful weapons, with the shortest flight time and the most difficult to intercept. This is a special period. And in peacetime - intelligence, sabotage, control of our SSBNs.

[Oyo Sarkazmi]

I hope they will strictly follow the American military tradition - the cost of the product is 10 thousand dollars per kilogram (pah, for two pounds!)

[Paul Siebert]

To order does not mean to receive.
They have no less lovers of budget cuts in ministries. And maybe more!
Remember "Zamvolty" - they pumped in a bunch of billions, but they never accepted it!

[exo]

Serious problem. Just in the continuation of articles on the deployment of our SSBNs, from locations.

[sleeve]

How many "ash"? 0,9 seems?

[Vadim237]

Almost 2 pieces.

[Karaul14]

The backlog will increase every day, because the USA has not carried out such large-scale rearmament at the turn of the generation of military equipment since the collapse of the USSR, now there is a large-scale replacement, but new generations, they can afford to replace at least 1k1. Russia does not have such opportunities, the existing Soviet equipment will become obsolete and fail, new deliveries will replace only a small part.

[Alexander X]

The Americans, realizing that their surface ships were targeted with a 100% defeat by our new missiles, decided to focus on nuclear submarines ... How can they be reliably hit?

[Vadim237]

Rocket launchers and conventional torpedoes.

[Aleksandr1971]

Russia should deploy its SSBNs in the Caspian. There they will not be reached by either the Virginia or the US ASW aircraft. This does not negate the need to recreate the bastions in the Barents and Okhotsk Seas, but at the moment it is cheaper.