November-class submarine

November-class SSN profile
Class overview
NameProject 627 “Kit”
BuildersSevmash
Operators Soviet Navy
Preceded bynone
Succeeded byVictor class
Built1957–1963
In commission1959–1990
Completed14 (1 project 627, 12 project 627A, 1 project 645)
Lost1 (K-8 – 12.04.1970, accident in the Bay of Biscay)
Retired13 (K-27 – 06.09.1982, deliberately scuttled in a training area in the Kara Sea; K-159 – 30 August 2003, sank while being towed for scrapping in the Barents Sea; others scrapped; first unit held for conversion as museum sub)
General characteristics
Class and typeNuclear attack submarine
Displacementsurface – 3,065 / 3,118 / 3,414 t; submerged – 4,750 / 4,069 / 4,380 t (project 627 / 627A / 645)
Length107.4 / 109.8 m (project 627A / 645)
Beam7.9 / 8.3 m (project 627A / 645)
Draft5.6 / 6.4 / 5.8 m (project 627 / 627A / 645)
Propulsiontwo water-cooled reactors VM-A 70 MW each with steam generators, two turbogear assemblies 60-D (35,000 hp total), two turbine-type generators GPM-21 1,400 kW each, two diesel generators DG-400 460 hp each, two auxiliary electric motors PG-116 450 hp each, two shafts. Submarine of project 645 had two liquid metal-cooled reactors VT-1 73 MW each and two more powerful turbine-type generators ATG-610 1,600 kW each, no diesel generators.
Speedsurface – 15.2 / 15.5 / 14.7 knots; submerged – 30 / 28 / 30.2 knots (31 knots)[1] (project 627 / 627A / 645)
Endurance50–60 days
Test depth300–340 m
Complementusually 104–105 men (including 30 officers)
Sensors and
processing systems
MG-200 "Arktika-M" sonar system for target detection, "Svet" detection of hydroacoustic signals and underwater sonar communication sonar system, "MG-10" hydrophone station (project 627 submarines had "Mars-16KP"), "Luch" sonar system for detection of underwater obstacles, "Prizma" detection radar for surface targets and torpedo control, "Nakat-M" reconnaissance radar.
Armament8 533 mm bow torpedo tubes (20 torpedoes SET-65 or 53-65K).

The November class, Soviet designation Project 627 Kit (Russian: Кит, lit.'whale', NATO reporting name November)[2] was the Soviet Union's first class of nuclear-powered attack submarines, which were in service from 1958 through 1990.[3][4] All but one have been disposed of,[5] with the K-3, the first nuclear-powered submarine built for the Soviet Navy, being preserved as a memorial ship in Saint Petersburg.[6]

  1. ^ Patrick E. Tyler (21 September 1986). "The Rise and Fall Of the SSN 688". The Washington Post. Washington, D.C. ISSN 0190-8286. OCLC 1330888409.
  2. ^ "NATO Code Names for Submarines and Ships".
  3. ^ "NATO Code Names for Submarines and Ships: Submarine Classes / Reporting Name". Art and Aerospace Page. Univ. of Michigan, UMCC / AIS. Retrieved 29 April 2011.
  4. ^ Cite error: The named reference PLR1 was invoked but never defined (see the help page).
  5. ^ "627". Retrieved 19 December 2014.
  6. ^ "Nuclear submarine Leninsky Komsomol will become a museum". Retrieved 19 December 2014.

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