Oscar class submarine

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• K-525, Minsky Komsomolets, laid down 1978, commissioned 1980, renamed Arkhangelsk in 1991
• K-206, Murmansk, was commissioned in 1981

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• Soviet submarine K-148, Krasnodar, commissioned 1986
• Soviet submarine K-119, Voronezh, commissioned 1988
• Soviet submarine K-410, Smolensk, commissioned 1990
• Soviet submarine K-266, Orel, formerly Severodvinsk, commissioned 1992
• Soviet submarine K-186, Omsk, launched May 8, 1993, commissioned October 27, 1993
• Soviet submarine K-141, Kursk, laid down 1992, launched 1994, commissioned December 1994, lost August 12, 2000

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• K-132, Belgorod, commissioned 1987
• K-173, Chelyabinsk, commissioned 1989
• K-150, Tomsk, commissioned 1991
• K-456, Kasatka, commissioned to the Northern Fleet in 1991; transferred to the Pacific Fleet September 1993

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General characteristics

Oscar II class submarine K-186

• Displacement when surfaced: 13,400 tons (Oscar-I), 14,700 tons maximum (Oscar-II)
• Displacement when submerged: 20,540 tons (Oscar-I), 24,000 tons (Oscar-II)
• Length: 144 meters (Oscar-I), 155 meters (Oscar-II)
• Beam: 18.2 meters
• Draft: 9 meters (Oscar-I) 9.2 meters (Oscar-II)
• Max depth: Oscar-I - 400 meters regular, 450 critical. Oscar-II - 500 meters regular, 600 critical.
• Compartments: 10
• Complement: 48 officers, 68 men (Oscar-I) or 59 men (Oscar-II)
• Reactor: Two OK-650b pressurised water reactors generating 190 MW each.
• Propulsion: two shafts, each 49,000 hp
• Speed (submerged): 30 knots (Oscar-I), 28 knots (Oscar-II)
• Strategic armament: 24 Granit SS-N-19 missiles in two banks of 12 tubes mounted outside the pressure hull. Six large doors, hinged on the outside, cover the tubes in pairs on either side of the sail (British: fin).
• Defensive armament: four 533-mm and two 650-mm bow torpedo tubes

Like other Soviet submarines, the Oscar not only has a bridge open to the elements on top of the sail but, for use in inclement weather, an enclosed bridge forward of this station in the sail. Image File history File links From http://nfo. ... Image File history File links From http://nfo. ... The P-700 Granit (NATO reporting name SS-N-19 Shipwreck) is a Russian naval anti-ship missile. ...

A distinguishing mark is a slight bulge at the top of the fin. A large door on either side of the fin reaches this bulge. These are wider at the top than on the bottom, and are hinged on the bottom. It is reported in the Federation of American Scientists' web page [1] that this submarine carries an emergency crew escape capsule, and as there is no more likely visible feature, these doors apparently cover it.

External links

• Two pictures of boats of the class