Hrm, new Borei-class boat.
The Alexander Nevsky is the first serial strategic rocket carrier of the Borei class. It is 170 metres long, 13.5 metres wide, maximum operating depth is 450 metres, underwater speed is 29 knots, and a crew of 17 sailors.
17 sailors on a sub roughly the same size as an Ohio? How the heck is that going to work? Assuming 3 watch-sections, that's a total of 6 people on watch at any given time, and I cannot imagine that for a strategic platform.
Wikipedia says crew of 107, which still shows a LOT of automation. An Ohio-class has a nominal crew of 165, and we regularly went to sea with nearly 180 onboard.
What I find interesting is the high number of officers as opposed to enlisted. Wiki says 55 officers and 52 enlisted. The Ohios only have about 15 officers, about that many chief petty officers (aka middle management), and the rest are almost all petty officers (E4-E6, NCOs). We had very few E3-and-below onboard, because it usually took long enough to get through all the schools that most sailors had already passed the tests to become a petty officer! Are the Russians still running on that "idiot conscript" model where the officers hold all the technical knowledge?
Borei class submarines are designed to serve as the basis of Russia's strategic nuclear capabilities for the decades to come. They are designed by the St. Petersburg-based Naval Design Bureau Rubin. Each submarine can be armed with 12 ICBMs with MIRVs. They will also have an escape capsule for all crewmembers.
I like the escape capsule idea, but that's an awfully big boat to only have 12 birds.
And again, Wiki disagrees with the missile count, saying that the redesigned missile was enough smaller/lighter that the Borei-class was redesigned to carry 16 birds, and it appears that the second flight of the class may carry 20 birds.
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