The Russian Navy (Navy) in five years plans to write off the last operating nuclear submarine (NPS) TK-208 “Dmitry Donskoy” of Project 941 of the “Akula” type, which was nicknamed the floating “Hilton” for “everyday delights” “, writes TASS observer 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, like a slide show on a computer, changed photos. It could be a view of the Moscow Kremlin or a coniferous forest”, – writes the browser.
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 construction principle, 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, 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. In modern Russia, nothing of the kind is going to be built. And, in fact, there are no such production capabilities,” the author claims, assuming that TK-208 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”.