Project 885 or Yasen-class took from a mid-1970s drawing board to 2010 to deliver Severodvinsk, and Russia kept paying through the Soviet collapse to get it. Then the boat earned it: in 2018 it left the Kola Peninsula, slipped the Greenland-Iceland-UK gap and worked off the US East Coast undetected, and by 2021 it had turned up off Sicily.
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A former US Navy aerial anti-submarine specialist suggests on the website 19FortyFive that the Yasen-class (Project 885/885M) is the most successful submarine Russia has ever produced. Based on his professional experience with aerial submarine detection, the author states that this vessel is a […]