Modern Warships: Submarine RF Belgorod Nuclear Missile Burevestnik and Nuclear Torpedo Poseidon

Описание: K-329 Belgorod (Russian: БС-329 «Белгород») is a modified design of the Oscar II class (NATO designation) Russian nuclear submarine. It was originally laid down in July 1992 as a Project 949A cruise missile submarine (NATO designation Oscar II class), but later was redesigned and the partly built hull was reconfigured as a special operations vessel, able to operate unmanned underwater vehicles. The vessel was relaid in December 2012. Due to chronic underfunding, its construction was suspended then resumed at a low rate of progress before the ship was redesigned to become a unique vessel — the first Russian fifth-generation submarine, according to the Ministry of Defence. The K-329 Belgorod, along with the Status-6 Oceanic Multipurpose System, was one of the last weapons systems presented by Russian President Vladimir Putin during his annual speech on March 1, 2018. It tested at sea in 1H2022 and was commissioned by the Russian Navy in July 2022. The submarine was delivered to the Russian Navy on 8 July 2022.

The Belgorod will reportedly be the first submarine to utilize the Status-6 Oceanic Multipurpose System.

In the construction process, the original 154-meter long hull was lengthened to 184 meters (which is almost 11 m more than the Project 941 SSBNs - the world's largest submarines ever built) with a width of 18.2 meters. In June 2019, US military expert H.I. Sutton published satellite imagery of the Sevmash shipyard, which shows the K-329 Belgorod along with K-549 Knyaz Vladimir of the Borey project, with Belgorod visibly longer and wider.

On November 11, 2015, the Status-6 Oceanic Multipurpose System project was officially revealed to the public. The initial designation of Status-6 has since been changed to Poseidon (Russian weapon systems designation 2M39 and the NATO reporting name Kanyon has been assigned).

The Poseidon type remotely operated underwater vehicle has a 10,000 km range, can dive to a depth of 1,000 meters and is designed to deliver nuclear warheads for the destruction of coastal infrastructure as a second nuclear strike option («оружия ответного удара»). The motherships for the Poseidon underwater drones are planned to be the 09852 "Belgorod" project submarines (like the "Belgorod") and the 09851 "Khabarovsk" project submarines. According to publications by the Russian state news agency TASS the submarines can carry up to six Poseidon vehicles at once, and this view is shared by some military experts.

The Belgorod Project is aimed at the development of a multi-role submarine platform with wide range of intelligence capabilities, in addition to its combat role. Among the strategic aims that have influenced the re-design of the K-329 Belgorod is the desire to set up and exploit the Arctic shelf as a major geo-strategy objective for the Kremlin in the short to medium term, mostly for exploitation of energy resources in the High North, but also for control of the increasingly important sea trade route through the Arctic Ocean due to the melting of the Arctic ice. An example for this shift towards the Arctic region can be seen in a new project to modernize and deploy a network of sonar listening stations, positioned on the Arctic seabed (code name Harmony, Russian: Гармония). High-ranking officials at the Pentagon as well as officers from other NATO member states have expressed their concerns in the period between the end of 2015 and the end of 2017 about the Russian plans for undersea cables for telecommunications. The new objective, in April 2021, from the Russian Defense Ministry to send the K-329 into service in the Pacific zone comes with rising military tensions in the North Pacific. At the time of the submarine's commissioning in July 2022, it was reported that she would operate in an initial experimental role with the Northern Fleet before transferring to the Pacific.

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