The Russian Navy (Navy) in five years plans to write off the last operating nuclear submarine (nuclear submarine) TK-208 “Dmitry Donskoy” of Project 941 of the “Akula” type, which was nicknamed the floating “Hilton” for “everyday delights”, writes TASS columnist Dmitry Litovkin.
The author recalls that for the first time in the history of the fleet, a sauna with a four-meter swimming pool and a smoking cabin were built on this nuclear submarine. “Inside the ship there was a gymnasium, a crew rest room with the first” live “wallpaper: an entire bulkhead of the submarine was given over to an installation that changed photos like a slide show on a computer. It could have been a view of the Moscow Kremlin or a coniferous forest, ”the columnist writes.
The author notes that the total power of 200 warheads on the TK-208 “Dmitry Donskoy” was 1400 times higher than the bomb dropped on Hiroshima (Japan). A distinctive feature of the Project 941 nuclear submarine of the “Akula” type was the catamaran principle of construction, thanks to which the submarine received three separate entrances and a system of corridors with a total length of about two kilometers.
Litovkin notes that in 2017, the TK-208 “Dmitry Donskoy” made his last campaign, “demonstrating not only the St. Andrew's flag, but also the cyclopean power of the Soviet Navy.” “It is the latter that may be able to save the last ship of the 941 series from actual destruction. They are not going to build anything of the kind in modern Russia. And, in fact, there are no such production possibilities, “the author asserts, assuming that TK-208” Dmitry Donskoy “will become a museum.
According to him, such submarines will be replaced by Borey-class nuclear submarines, which are “smaller and more technologically advanced.”
In January, Konstantin Sivkov, Deputy President of the Russian Academy of Missile and Artillery Sciences (RARAN) for Information Policy, Doctor of Military Sciences, said that the United States, together with other NATO countries, were preparing for war with Russia.
