The Russian fleet lost the most powerful submarine: where did Dmitry Donsky go

The Russian atomic underwater cruiser "Dmitry Donsky" will be disposed of on a naval base in Severodvinsk. Instead, they create a new Bori-A project. The Russian heavy atomic underwater cruiser "Dmitry Donsky" was derived from the combat warehouse of the Navy of the Russian Federation. According to Volodymyr Maltsev, the head of the All-Russian Fleet Support Movement, the strategic submarine will be disposed of at the Navy in Severodvinsk. This was reported on February 6 by the TASS news agency.

"Dmytro Donsky underwater cruiser was derived from the Navy combat. He has not yet determined the disposal of the underwater cruiser, he said. At the same time, Maltsev noted that the name "Dmitry Donsky" will not be removed from the list of ships of the Russian Navy, since a new submarine "Dmitry Donsky" of Bori-a "is being built at the Sevmash plant in Sevmash.

The heavy atomic missile underwater cruiser of the strategic purpose of the TC-208 "Dmitry Donsky" is a flagship in a series of six submarine of the projection 941 "Shark". The project was considered the pinnacle of Soviet underwater shipbuilding and was created as a response to the appearance of American submarines of the Ohio type and the Trident's missile-nuclear program.

The underwater cruiser for over 40 years, since its construction was laid on Sevmash on June 17, 1976, and it was laid on the water four years in 1980. In fact, Dmitry Donsky's atomic missile cruiser is the largest submarine in the world and the last "shark" of the Russian military fleet. The atomic has a length of 172 meters, the width of the boat is 23 meters, and the watertone - 48 thousand tons. A crew of 179 people could be upside down up to 120 days.

Three of six submarines in this class were disposed of in the early 2000s, two more "Arkhangelsk" and "Seversstal"-withdrawn from the fleet and are waiting for disposal. Earlier it was reported that at the end of December 2022, Russian President Vladimir Putin took part in the waters of the atomic underwater cruiser "Emperor Alexander III" in the videoconference mode.