YANKEE CLASS SUBMARINE

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YANKEE CLASS SUBMARINE

Post by aukepalmhof » Mon Nov 16, 2009 8:14 pm

There were seven different versions of the Yankee class submarine, the stamp depicts as given one the stamp is one of the Project 667A.

This class of which 34 were built was the first modern Soviet SSBN.
The design was apparently after the US Benjamin Franklin and Lafayette classes which were covertly obtained by Soviet military intelligence in the early 1960s.

The Project 667A submarines were built between 1967 and 1974 one two shipyards in the Soviet Union; Sevmash at Severodvinsk and a yard in Komsomolsk-na-Amur in Siberia.

Displacement: 7.700 tons surfaced, 9.300 tons submerged. Dim. 132 x 11.6 x 8m. (draught).
Powered by two pressurized water-cooled reactors powering two steam turbines, 52.000 hp., twin shafts, speed 13 knots submerged, 27 knots submerged.
Armament: D-5 16 launch tubes for R-27 missiles, 4 – 533mm and 2 – 400mm torpedo tubes.
Diving depth 400 meter.
Crew 120.

Stationed in the Soviet Navy Northern Fleet and Pacific Fleet.
All of the class are de-commissioned, and waiting for disposal.

Russia 2006 3.00R sg?, scott?

Source: some web-sites and The Encyclopedia of Warships.
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