Zulu class submarine
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| Class overview | |
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| Name: | Zulu |
| Operators: |  Soviet Navy |
| In commission: | 1952 |
| General characteristics | |
| Type: | attack submarine |
| Displacement: | 1875 tons surfaced 2387 tons submerged |
| Length: | 90 m (295 ft) |
| Beam: | 7.5 m |
| Draught: | 5.14 m |
| Propulsion: | 3 diesel engines (6000 hp) 3 electric motors (5400 hp) |
| Speed: | Surfaced: 18 knots (33 km/h) Submerged: 16 knots (30 km/h) |
| Test depth: | 200 m (656 ft) |
| Complement: | 70 officers and men |
| Armament: | 6 bow and 4 stern 533-mm (21-inch) torpedo tubes 22 torpedoes 6 of the submarines were equipped with F-11FM Scud missiles |
The Soviet Navy's Project 611, also known by their NATO reporting name of Zulu-class, were designed as attack submarines, but six were converted in 1956 to become the world's first ballistic missile submarines, one armed with a single F-11FM Scud missile and five others with two Scuds each. The missiles were too long to be contained in the boat's hull, and extended into the enlarged sail. Soviet submarine B-67 successfully launched a missile on 16 September 1955.
The design was influenced by the German Type XXI U-boat of the World War II era.[1]
The success of the converted Zulus prompted the design of Project 629, the Golf class submarines.
A total of 26 boats were built, entering service from 1952 to 1957, 8 of them in Leningrad and 18 in Severodvinsk.
[edit] References
- ^ Sean Maloney, 'To Secure Command of the Sea,' University of New Brunswick thesis 1991, p.315
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