Kilo-class submarine
Sign in to saveAlso known as Project 877 Paltus, Paltus, Project 636 Varshavyanka, Kilo class, Improved Kilo class, Export Kilo class, Varshavyanka
diesel electric submarine class
Key facts
- Builders
- Rubin Design Bureau Krasnoye Sormovo Shipyard Amur Shipbuilding Plant Admiralty Shipyard Sevmash
- Operators
- See Operators
- Preceded by
- Tango class
- Succeeded by
- Lada class
- Subclasses
- Sindhughosh class
- Built
- 1980–present
- In service
- 1980–present
- In commission
- December 1980–present
- Type
- Attack submarine
- Displacement
- Surfaced: 2,325 (Project 877) – 2,350 (Project 636.3) tons Submerged: 3,075 tons full load (Project 877); 3,950 tons full load (Project 636.3)
- Length
- 72.6 m (238 ft 2 in) (Project 877); 73.8 m (242 ft 2 in) (Project 636.3)
- Beam
- 9.9 m (32 ft 6 in)
- Draft
- 6.2 m (20 ft 4 in)
- Installed power
- Diesel-electric
- Propulsion
- Diesel-electric propulsion 2 × 1000 kW diesel generators 1 × 5,500–6,800 shp (4,100–5,100 kW) propulsion motor 1 × fixed-pitch 6-bladed (Project 877) or 7-bladed (Project 636) propeller
- Speed
- Surfaced: 17 knots (31 km/h; 20 mph) Submerged: 20 knots (37 km/h; 23 mph)
- Range
- With snorkel: 6,000–7,500 nmi (11,100–13,900 km; 6,900–8,600 mi) at 7 kn (13 km/h; 8.1 mph) Submerged: 400 nmi (740 km; 460 mi) at 3 kn (5.6 km/h; 3.5 mph) Full run: 12.7 nmi (23.5 km; 14.6 mi) at 21 kn (39 km/h; 24 mph)
- Endurance
- 45 days
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Wikidata facts
- Subclass of
- attack submarine
- Named after
- halibut
- Operator
- Islamic Republic of Iran Navy
- Country of origin
- Soviet Union
- Followed by
- Lada-class submarine
- Follows
- Tango-class submarine
- Manufacturer
- Rubin Design Bureau
- Image
- Chinese Kilo in service.jpg
- Length
- 72.6
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- NATO reporting name
- Kilo
- topic's main category
- Category:Kilo-class submarines
- Commons category
- Kilo class submarines
- total produced
- 73
- Commons gallery
- Kilo class submarine
- draft
- 6.6
- beam
- 9.9
- native label
- Подводные лодки проекта 877
- short name
- Kilo
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Encyclopedic overview
Russian Project 877 in the English Channel in 2018 A Russian Kilo-class submarine underway on the surface
The Kilo-class submarines are a group of diesel-electric attack submarines designed by the Rubin Design Bureau in the Soviet Union in the 1970s and built originally for the Soviet Navy. Since it was introduced, more than 70 Kilo class boats have been built, and around 60 were in active service as of 2023, not only in Russia but also in Algeria, Vietnam, India, Iran, Myanmar, and Poland.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Kilo-class submarine” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.