Video: Russia’s nuclear-powered submarine Severodvinsk launches Kalibr cruise missile

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Video: Russia’s nuclear-powered submarine Severodvinsk launches Kalibr cruise missile
 
The Russian Northern Fleet’s Project 885 nuclear-powered submarine Severodvinsk has successfully hit a coastal practice target, using the Kalibr (NATO reporting name: SS-N-27 Sizzler) missile system, fleet spokesman Captain 1st Rank Vadim Serga said on Wednesday.
     
The Russian Northern Fleet’s Project 885 nuclear-powered submarine Severodvinsk has successfully hit a coastal practice target, using the Kalibr (NATO reporting name: SS-N-27 Sizzler) missile system, fleet spokesman Captain 1st Rank Vadim Serga said on Wednesday.
Russian Navy Project 885 Yasen-class Submarine Severodvinsk (K-560) underway
. The successor will be the Husky-class fifth generation submarine.
     
The Project 885 nuclear-powered submarine is armed with missiles and torpedoes, the spokesman added.

"Under the combat training program, the advanced Project 885 multipurpose nuclear-powered submarine of Russia’s Northern Fleet has successfully launched a sea-based Kalibr cruise missile from the underwater position in the Barents Sea to hit a coastal practice target at the Chizha range in the Arkhangelsk Region [in north Russia]," Serga said.

"The missile accurately hit the target," he added.
     
Russian Navy Project 885 Yasen-class Submarine Severodvinsk (K-560) launching Kalibr cruise missile. Video: Russian MoD
     
The launch of the cruise missile was supervised by representatives of the Northern Fleet’s command and submarine forces staying aboard the large anti-submarine warfare ship Vice-Admiral Kulakov at sea.

The nuclear-powered submarine Severodvinsk went to sea several days ago.

The Project 885 Yasen-class lead nuclear-powered submarine Severodvinsk joined the Russian Navy in June 2014.

During the submarine’s operational evaluation, its crew tested its weapons, equipment and systems in various operational modes, including during its deep submergences.
The nuclear-powered submarine Severodvinsk is furnished with automated control systems, sonar detection and radio technical equipment, torpedo tubes and missile systems.

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Link to Project 885 Yasen-class technical datasheet