Soviet submarine K-85
Soviet Juliett-class cruise-missile submarine / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
K-85 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. While much of the submarine's activities during the Cold War are unknown, she did make at least two patrols in the Mediterranean Sea while assigned to the Northern Fleet. The submarine was renamed B-124 in 1977 and was transferred to the Baltic Fleet four years later. B-124 was decommissioned in 1993 and subsequently scrapped.
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Sister ship K-77 docked in Providence, Rhode Island | |
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Name | K-85 |
Builder | Shipyard 189 named after Grigoriy Ordzhonikidze, Leningrad |
Laid down | 25 October 1961 |
Launched | 31 January 1964 |
Commissioned | 22 January 1965 |
Decommissioned | 30 June 1993 |
Renamed | B-124, 25 July 1977 |
Fate | Scrapped, 1998–1999 |
General characteristics | |
Type | Juliett-class submarine |
Displacement | |
Length | 85.9 m (281 ft 10 in) |
Beam | 9.7 m (31 ft 10 in) |
Draft | 6.29 m (20 ft 8 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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