VEPR (K-157) Akula Class II submarine

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VEPR (K-157) Akula Class II submarine

Post by aukepalmhof » Sun Jul 14, 2019 9:09 pm

The stamp gives that an Akula-Class SSN Project 971U is depict but by looking at the submarine depict on the stamp you can see that the pod for towing an array sonar on the vertical stern fin is missing. The only in this class without a pod is the Akula-Class (1), otherwise, all the types look the same.

Built as an attack nuclear submarine under yard no 834 as Akula Project 971U by JSC PO Sevmash at Severodvinsk for the Russian Navy.
16 June 1990 laid down as the K-157.
10 December 1994 launched as the VEPR (K-157).
Displacement 8,140 ton surfaced and 12,770 tons submerged, dim. 114.3 x 13.6 x 9.7m. (draught)
Powered by one OK-650 V nuclear reactor, 190 MW, one shaft, speed 10 knots surface, 24 knots maximum 35 knots submerged.
Armament: 4 × 533 mm torpedo tubes (28 torpedoes) and 4 × 650 mm torpedo tubes (12 torpedoes), 1–3 × Igla-M surface-to-air missile launcher fired from sail (surface use only). Granat cruise missiles, now.
Crew 73.
25 November 1995 commissioned, homeport Gadzhievo.

Project 971U (Akula II)
K-157 VEPR is the only completed Akula II The Akula II is 3 metres (9.8 ft) longer and displaces about 700 tons (submerged displacement) more than the Akula I. The added space was used for additional quieting measures. The MGK-501 Skat sonar system on Akula I is replaced to a new MGK-540 Skat-3 sonar system. K-157 VEPR became the first Soviet submarine that was quieter than the latest U.S. attack submarines of that time, which was the improved Los Angeles class (SSN 751 and later). Two of these submarines were used to build the Borei-class SSBNs.
VEPR (K-157) (Russian: Вепрь literally means "wild boar") is a Project 971 Schuka-B (also known by the NATO reporting name "Akula-II") class nuclear-powered attack submarine of the Russian Navy. Her keel was laid down on 16 June 1990 by Sevmash. She was launched on 10 December 1994, commissioned on 25 November 1995, and homeported in Gadzhievo.

1998 incident
Shortly before midnight, 10 September 1998, VEPR was in port at Severomorsk. Alexander Kuzminykh, a 19-year-old seaman who was being detained on punishment charges, broke out from his quarters, killed his guard by stabbing him with a chisel, then seized his AKS-74U assault rifle and shot dead five more sailors. He then took two hostages, whom he later killed.
He barricaded himself in the torpedo room, and for 20 hours repeatedly threatened to set a fire to detonate the torpedoes. While VEPR had no nuclear weapons and her reactor was shut down, the detonation of her torpedoes, while she was tied up at the dock would have ruptured her reactor, creating what the regional director of the Federal Security Service (FSB), Vladimir Prikhodko described as "a nuclear catastrophe ... a second Chernobyl."
Attempts to persuade him to surrender failed. Kuzminykh's mother was flown to the naval base but was unable to persuade her son to give himself up. The situation remained a standoff until early on the morning of 12 September, when a special anti-terrorist commando unit of the Russian Federal Security Service (FSB) stormed the torpedo room. Early reports indicated that he had been killed by the FSB, but later reports indicated that he committed suicide. FSB officers regretted that "there was no way to preserve Alexander Kuzminykh's life."
Kuzminykh was found fit when he was conscripted at a St. Petersburg enlistment office, even though he had suffered from a mental disorder and had been inhaling intoxicants. When Kuzminykh volunteered for the submarine service, he passed additional medical and psychiatric tests with high marks.

2019 In active service.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Russian_s ... PR_(K-157)
Djibouti 2019 240Fd sg?, scott? and in margin of the 950FD sgMS, scott?
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