Echo-class submarine

Nuclear-powered cruise-missile submarine of Project 675 (Echo II)
Class overview
Builders
Operators
Preceded byWhiskey Long Bin class
Succeeded by
In commission19 November 1960–15 July 1994
Completed
  • Echo I : 5
  • Echo II : 29
General characteristics
TypeNuclear submarine
Displacement
  • Echo I :
  • 3,768 long tons (3,828 t) surfaced
  • 4,920 long tons (4,999 t) submerged
  • Echo II :
  • 4,415 long tons (4,486 t) surfaced
  • 5,760 long tons (5,852 t) submerged
Length
  • Echo I : 111.2 m (364 ft 10 in)
  • Echo II : 115.4 m (378 ft 7 in)
Beam
  • Echo I : 9.2 m (30 ft 2 in)
  • Echo II : 9.3 m (30 ft 6 in)
Draught
  • Echo I : 7.1 m (23 ft 4 in)
  • Echo II : 7.4 m (24 ft 3 in)
Propulsion
  • Echo I : 2 pressurized water-cooled reactors 44,500 hp (33 MW) each, 2 steam turbines, 2 shafts
  • Echo II : 2 pressurized water-cooled reactors 70,000 hp (52 MW) each, 2 steam turbines, 2 shafts
Speed
  • Echo I :
  • 15.1 knots (17.4 mph; 28.0 km/h) surfaced
  • 24.2 knots (27.8 mph; 44.8 km/h) submerged
  • Echo II :
  • 14 knots (16 mph; 26 km/h) surfaced
  • 22 knots (25 mph; 41 km/h) submerged
Range18,000–30,000 miles (29,000–48,000 km)
Endurance50 days
Test depth300 m (984 ft)
Complement104-109 men (including 29 officers)
Armament
  • Echo I :
  • 6 × P-5 Pyatyorka cruise missiles
  • 4 × 533 mm (21 in) bow torpedo tubes
  • 2 × 400 mm (16 in) bow torpedo tubes
  • 2 × 400 mm (16 in) stern torpedo tubes
  • Echo II :
  • 8 × P-6 cruise missiles
  • 4 × 533 mm (21 in) bow torpedo tubes
  • 2 × 400 mm (16 in) stern torpedo tubes
  • Echo II mod :
  • P-6 replaced with 8 × P-500 or P-1000 (SS-N-12 "Sandbox") missiles

The Echo class were nuclear cruise missile submarines of the Soviet Navy built during the 1960s. Their Soviet designation was Project 659 for the first five vessels, and Project 675 for the following twenty-nine. Their NATO reporting names were Echo I and Echo II. All were decommissioned by 1994.[1][2]

  1. ^ "Подводные лодки. Проект 659".
  2. ^ "Подводные лодки. Проект 675".

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