![]() Russian Black Sea Fleet Improved Kilo–class submarine B-265 Krasnodar in 2015
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Class overview | |
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Builders | |
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 |
Building | 2 |
Completed | 83 |
Active | 65 |
Lost | 1 |
Retired | 16 |
Preserved | 1 |
General characteristics | |
Type | Attack submarine |
Displacement |
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Length | 58.7–83.8 m (192 ft 7 in – 274 ft 11 in) |
Beam | 9.9 m (32 ft 6 in) |
Draft | 6.2 m (20 ft 4 in) |
Installed power | Diesel-electric |
Propulsion |
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Speed |
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Range |
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Endurance | 45 days |
Test depth |
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Complement | 52 |
Armament |
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The Kilo-class submarines are a group of diesel-electric attack submarines designed by the Rubin Design Bureau[1][2][3] in the Soviet Union in the 1970s and built originally for the Soviet Navy.
The first version had the Soviet designation Project 877 Paltus (Russian: Па́лтус, meaning "halibut"), NATO reporting name Kilo. They entered operational service in 1980 and continued being built until the mid-1990s, when production switched to the more advanced Project 636 Varshavyanka (Russian: Варшавянка, after the revolutionary song of the same title) variant, also known in the West as the Improved Kilo class.[citation needed] The design was updated again by the Russian Navy in the mid-2010s, to a variant called Project 636.3, also known as Improved Kilo II.
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