Soviet submarine K-77
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K-77 was a "Project 651" (NATO reporting name: Juliett-class) diesel–electric submarine built for the Soviet Navy during the 1960s. Commissioned in 1965, the boat was armed with long-range cruise missiles to carry out its mission of destroying American aircraft carriers and bases. The missiles could be fitted with either conventional or nuclear warheads.
K-77 docked in Providence, Rhode Island | |
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Soviet Union | |
Name | K-77 |
Ordered | 1950s |
Builder | Krasnoye Sormovo Factory No. 112, Gorky |
Laid down | 31 January 1963 |
Launched | 11 March 1965 |
Commissioned | 31 October 1965 |
Renamed | 1977, B-77 |
Stricken | 1994 |
Fate | Sold for scrap, August 2009 |
General characteristics | |
Type | Juliett-class submarine |
Displacement | |
Length | 85.9 m (281 ft 10 in) |
Beam | 9.7 m (31 ft 10 in) |
Draft | 3.29 m (10 ft 10 in) |
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Test depth | 240 m (790 ft) |
Complement | 78 |
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Electronic warfare & decoys | Nakat-M ESM |
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K-77 was built later in the Juliett class, so her hull was conventional steel and her battery was of the conventional lead-acid type, rather than the austenitic steel and silver-zinc batteries used in the first Julietts. K-77 was also used as the set for the motion picture K-19: The Widowmaker, starring Harrison Ford and Liam Neeson.
The boat flooded and sank during a storm in 2007. She was refloated a year later and subsequently scrapped.