“K-314” Victor I Class Nuclear Submarine (SSN)

 historical layer / disappeared object, nuclear submarine

Project # 671V Yorsh
NATO designation Victor I Class nuclear fleet submarine

Laid down 5.09.1970 ;
Launched 28.03.1972 ;
Commissioned 6.11.1972 ;
from 18.03.1974 transferred from Northern to Pacific Fleet;
De-commissioned 14.03.1989

The Victor class is the NATO reporting name for a type of nuclear-powered submarine that was originally put into service by the Soviet Union around 1967. In the USSR, they were produced as Project 671. Victor-class subs featured a teardrop shape, which allowed them to travel at high speed. These vessels were primarily designed to protect Soviet surface fleets and to attack American ballistic missile subs, should the need ever arise.

Victor I - Soviet designation Project 671 Yorzh (Ruffe) - was the initial type that entered service in 1967; 16 were produced.Each had 6 tubes for launching Type 53 torpedoes and SS-N-15 cruise missiles and mines could also be released. Subs had a capacity of 24 tube-launched weapons or 48 mines (a combination would require less of each). They were 92.5m long.

N.B. there is tendency to confuse this boat with the Echo-II class vessel "K-431" which underwent a critical nuclear reactor incident in Aug 1985 and later was moored alongside this vessel here in Pavlovsk Bay for many years before finally being moved to Bolshoi Kamen in 2010 for final graving and scrapping.

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