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Bellona Report nr. 2:96. Written by: Thomas Nilsen, Igor Kudrik and Alexandr Nikitin.

Project 667 B (Murena) - Delta-I Class

Project 667 B (Murena) - Delta-I Class
Northern Fleet Pacific Fleet Total
In service 2 9 11
Inactive 7 0 7
Dismantled 0 0 0
Number 18

Technical Data

Length: 139 m Displacement: 7 800/10 000 tons
Beam: 11.7 m Maximum Depth: 550 m
Draught: 8.4 m Hull: Low magnetic steel
Speed: 26 knots Crew: 120

Reactor

Two pressurised water reactors, model OK-700 with a VM-4 type reactor core generating 2 x 90 MWt. Shaft power 2 x 20 000 hp. There are 250 fuel assemblies.

Naval Architect

S.N. Kovalov, SKB-18.

Nuclear Weapons

Twelve (12) RSM-40/R-29 O type missiles (SS-N-12).

Construction Yard

Ten (10) Delta-I submarines were built at Severodvinsk in the period from 1971 to 1976. Another eight were built in Komsomolsk from 1974 to 1977.

Base

Gremikha.

Compartments: 10

Individual Submarines

Northern Fleet:

K-279,
factory no. 310. Laid down in 1971; launched in 1972 and commissioned to the Northern Fleet on December 22, 1972.[218]
K-447,
factory no. 311. Commissioned in 1973; still in use today.[219] The submarine was defuelled in 1994 and the spent fuel transferred to the service ship PM-63 in Severodvinsk.
K-450,
factory no. 312. Commissioned in 1973.
K-385,
factory no. 324. Commissioned in 1974.
K-457,
factory no. 325. Commissioned in 1974. Still in service.[220]
K-465,
factory no. 326. Commissioned in 1974.
K-460,
factory no. 337. Commissioned in 1975.
K-472,
factory no. 338. Commissioned in 1975.

Pacific Fleet:

K-336.
Commissioned in 1974.
K-417.
Commissioned in 1974.
K-477.
Commissioned in 1975.
K-497.
Commissioned in 1975.
K-500.
Commissioned in 1976.
K-512.
Commissioned in 1976.
K-523.
Commissioned in 1977.
K-530.
Commissioned in 1977.
K-171,
factory no. 340. Commissioned in 1976; transferred from the Northern Fleet to the Pacific Fleet later in the same year.

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Endnotes

[218] Kransya Zvezda, January 28. 1995. Return
[219] Mormul, N., Note, 1995. Return
[220] Ibid. Return


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