Key facts
- Name
- Borei class
- Builders
- Sevmash , designed by Rubin
- Operators
- Russian Navy
- Preceded by
- Delta IV class , Typhoon class
- Succeeded by
- Arcturus class
- Cost
- US$713 million
- Built
- 1996–present
- In commission
- 2013–present
- Type
- nuclear-powered ballistic missile submarine
- Displacement
- 14,720 t (14,488 long tons) surfaced 24,000 t (23,621 long tons) submerged
- Length
- 170 m (557 ft 9 in)
- Beam
- 13.5 m (44 ft 3 in)
- Draught
- 10 m (32 ft 10 in)
- Propulsion
- 1 × ОК-650V nuclear reactor 1 × Steam turbine, 50,000 SHP 1 × Pump-jet
- Speed
- Submerged: 29 knots (54 km/h; 33 mph) Surfaced: 15 knots (28 km/h; 17 mph)
- Range
- Unlimited
- Test depth
- 400 metres (1,300 ft)
- Complement
- 107 total crew
via Wikipedia infobox
Wikidata facts
- Subclass of
- ballistic missile submarine
- Named after
- Yury Dolgorukiy
- Operator
- Russian Navy
- Country of origin
- Russia
- Follows
- Soviet submarine K-64
- Manufacturer
- Sevmash
- Image
- Borey class SSBN.svg
- Length
- 170
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- Commons category
- Borei class submarines
- powered by
- OK-650 reactor
- armament
- Type 53
- topic's main category
- Category:Borei-class submarines
- NATO reporting name
- Borei
- draft
- 10
- beam
- 13.5
- topic has template
- Template:Borei class submarine
- inception
- 2007-00-00
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Encyclopedic overview
The Borei class, alternate transliteration Borey, Russian designation Project 955 Borei and Project 955A Borei-A (Russian: Борей, lit. 'Boreas', NATO reporting name Dolgorukiy), are a series of nuclear-powered ballistic missile submarines being constructed by Sevmash for the Russian Navy. The class has been replacing the steadily retiring Russian Navy Delta III and Delta IV classes and fully retired (as of February 2023) Typhoon, all three classes being Soviet-era submarines.
Despite being a replacement for many types of SSBNs, Borei-class submarines are much smaller than those of the Typhoon class in both displacement and crew (24,000 tons submerged opposed to 48,000 tons and 107 personnel as opposed to 160 for the Typhoons). In terms of class, they are more accurately a follow-on for the Delta IV-class SSBNs.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Borei-class submarine” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.