All russian submarines controls are in knobs and buttons contrary to american LED and touchscreen. I wanted to see control room of current Yasen class submarines from Russia. Any luck from anybody?
Well in a sub - its all about reliability. When you are running almost blind hundreds of feet under the sea-surface, you sometimes need analog reliability instead of costly or fancy electronic led buttons or touchscreens. That said, even our Ming class subs were upgraded with electronic displays. The main controls are however reliable electro-hydraulic command control for the actuation surfaces.
I'm sorry pictures of Yasen class interiors are hard to come by because only the second example was launched in 2015 for sea trials. I haven't seen any circulating on the web. Since one of the most modern Russian subs, it could have electronic displays or touchscreens, most modern Russian airliners have them too (all Made in Russia by local vendors). Since even US subs of the late 90's had electronic touchscreens some two decades ago, Russian subs of recent vintage should have them without doubt.
The Yasen class attack SSBN was delayed because of the Borei class SSBN carrying ICBMs were given development and build priority.
This is interesting because Indian Navy was thinking about leasing a few Yasen class examples....NATO calls this the 'Graney' class. Russians have christened the first example as 'Severodvinsk'.
Graney class submarine
No definitive or comprehensive range of pictures exist of Project 885, a hunter killer submarine otherwise known as
Yasen class – and designated by NATO as
Graney class. For all the column inches this boat has generated
specific hard facts are hard to find. However, if the model and press launch pictures are to be believed than the
Yasen class represents a departure from normal Russian practice. Firstly, it appears to have only one propeller which remained covered at the boats launch and secondly it would appear that its ballistic missiles are stored aft of the conning tower.
A photo of the single propeller is shown below. The third photo in this section is of an
American Polaris ballistic missile submarine of the
Lafayette class (
USS Sam Rayburn), and show how the silo hatches might be arranged now that that it appears missiles are to be stored aft of the conning tower.
The
Yasen class is thought to be based on the
Akula class and
Alfa class submarines and is projected to replace Russia’s Soviet-era attack submarines. Ten
Yasen class are planned by 2020 with one already undergoing sea trials (2011) and a second is to be commissioned in 2015.
Yasen class submarines are listed as having a submerged displacement of 11,800 tons, is 390 ft in length and a submerged speed of 28 (or 35) kts.
It is known that construction programme, started in Dec 1993, has suffered as series of stoppages due to finance and ‘technical problems’. The first of the
Yasen class, K-329, was scheduled for launch in 1998 but by 2004 work was only ‘resuming’ and ‘moving forward.’
In part this was due to the priority given to the new SSBN
Borei class which will carry ballistic nuclear missiles. Nevertheless, work on a second
Yasen class submarine (the
Kazan) began in July 2009.
Graney class submarines are made of low magnetic steel, with a spherical bow sonar. Precise details are not available as the first voyage of K-329 took place in Sept 2011 but educated guesses have been made about its improved quietness, new generation of reactor and its range or armaments. Some consider by that the
Graney class will be only slightly quieter than the improved
Akula class.
These are likely to include the
Shipwreck missile (see P-700
Granit above in VLS configuration), and the supersonic anti-ship cruise missile, the P-800 (Oniks/Yakhont/BrahMos II, as shown below) which has a range of about 200 miles.
The Chinese equivalent of the Yakhont/BrahMos is the DF-26 shown below.
There is a likelihood that a long-range cruise missile will be developed with a range of up to 3,100 miles, thus out-distancing the 1,000 mile range of the current P-700
Granit .One source estimates that 24 cruise missiles will be carried together with munitions for its eight 650 m/m torpedo tubes.
Yasen class submarines will operate a VLS, or vertical launch systems, which allows surface and submarines to launch a variety of pre-loaded missiles. These can be “hot” launch using the missile’s own exhaust, or ‘cold’ launches – each have their own advantages.
