Soviet submarine K-276
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| Career |  |
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| Name: | K-276 Krab |
| Builder: | Gorky, later towed to Severodvinsk for completion |
| Laid down: | May 1982 |
| Launched: | August 1983 |
| Decommissioned: | 1997 |
| Renamed: | B-276 Kostroma |
| General characteristics | |
| Class and type: | Sierra-class submarine |
| Displacement: | 7,200 tons (surfaced) 8,100 tons (submerged) |
| Length: | 351 ft (107 m) |
| Beam: | 41 ft (12 m) |
| Propulsion: | 1 × PWR, 190 MW 2 × 1,002 hp emergency motors 1 shaft, 2 spinners |
| Speed: | 10 knots (18.5 km/h) (surfaced) 34 knots (63.0 km/h) (submerged) |
| Range: | Unlimited, except by food supplies |
| Complement: | 61 |
| Armament: | 4 × 25.6 in (650 mm) torpedo tubes 4 × 21 in (530 mm) torpedo tubes • SS-N-21 Sampson SLCM with 200 kT nuclear warhead • SS-N-15 Starfish anti submarine weapon: 200 kT depth charge or 90 kg HE Type 40 torpedo • SS-N-16 Stallion, 200 kT depth charge or 90 kg HE Type 40 torpedo Minelaying configuration: 42 mines instead of torpedoes |
K-276 Krab was a Russian Sierra class submarine built at Gorky, later towed to Severodvinsk for completion. She was laid down in May 1982 and was launched in August 1983. Later renamed B-276 Kostroma, she was laid up in 1997.
[edit] References
- Robert Hutchinson, Submarines, War Beneath The Waves, From 1776 To The Present Day
- In two steps to catastrophe: article about the collision of K-276 and Baton Rouge (Russian)
| Sierra-class submarine |
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Projekt 945 Barrakuda ("Sierra I") |
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Projekt 945A Kondor ("Sierra II") |
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List of Soviet and Russian submarines |
