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The Submarine with Vertical Launchers: a Floating Battery for Salvo Firing

The extensive experience of creating submarines with vertical launch systems is possessed by only four countries, Russia included. The technology itself caters for lots of nuances, as the pressure hull with missile containers takes water pressure in a different manner, and container covers and their drives shall work reliably under largely varying conditions that emerge throughout the service life of a submarine. A missile-carrying submarine will be of no use without the system of data input to missile, system of missile ejection from a container, system of post-firing stabilization of the submarine and a great number of other systems. Besides, the infrastructure on the shore for storage, checks, loading and unloading of missiles is also necessary.

Rubin Design Bureau with its entire system of cooperation that emerged due to regular construction of nuclear submarines possesses and elaborates all necessary technologies, and these can be offered to the Customer.

As an example at the Army 2024 show, Rubin Design Bureau unveiled the conventional Amur 950 ocean submarine with vertical launchers. In fact, it is a floating battery, capable of inflicting a powerful preventive salvo strike upon opponent's ships and shore-based facilities.

Low noise characteristics as well as sonar equipment, which ensures high cognizance, make the boat perfectly suitable for reconnaissance and covert surveillance operations.

30-day endurance enables Amur 950 to operate as far as up to 1000 miles from the shore. Its full submerged speed is 20 kn. The complement is 19 people. The vessel's displacement is about 1000 tons.

Due to its small displacement and technical solutions implemented by Rubin during the creation of the third and fourth generation conventional submarines, Amur 950 suits well as a basic platform for designing national submarines to suffice the requirements from Customer's Navies.