Known in the West by their NATO reporting name
as the Juliett class, the Project 651 diesel-electric
submarines were designed in the 1950s to provide
the Soviet Navy with a nuclear strike capability
against the east coast of the United States. They
carried four nuclear cruise missiles, which could
be launched while the submarine was surfaced and
moving less than four knots (7 km/h). Once surfaced,
the first missile could be launched in about five
minutes; subsequent missiles would follow within
about ten seconds each. Initially, the missiles
were the inertially-guided P-5 (NATO reporting
name SS-N-3 Shaddock). When submarine-launched
ballistic missiles rendered the P-5s obsolescent,
they were replaced with the P-6 (also NATO reporting
name SS-N-3 Shaddock, though it is a very different
missile) and the P-500 4K-80 "Bazalt"
(SS-N-12 Sandbox) anti-ship cruise missiles designed
to attack American aircraft carriers. A special
10m2 target guidance radar was built into the
forward edge of the sail structure, which opened
by rotating. The boats were eventually fitted
with the Kasatka satellite downlink for targeting
information.
The Juliett class had a low magnetic signature
austenitic steel double hull, covered by two inch
(50 mm) thick black tiles made of sound-absorbing
hard rubber. They had exceptionally high reserve
buoyancy, and were divided into eight watertight
compartments:
the forward torpedo room
living accommodations for officers and chiefs
and the forward batteries
the missile control room and batteries
the control room
crew berthing and batteries
the forward engine room containing the diesels
and generators
the aft engine room with the electric motors
the aft torpedo room.
Initial plans called for 35 submarines of this
class. In fact only 16 were actually built, most
by Krasnoye Sormovo shipyard in Gorky. They were
commissioned between 1962 and 1968, and served
through the 1980s. The last one was decommissioned
in 1994.
Submarine K-67 was laid down in the Baltic Shipyard
in Leningrad on 31 January 1965, launched on 29
October 1966, and commissioned on 30th September
1967 into the Northern Fleet.
K-67 submarine were used to follow United States
Navy aircraft carrier battle groups in the North
Atlantic Ocean and the Mediterranean Sea. K-67
was transferred to Black Sea Fleet into a 1980th.
From 1965 submarine has name K-67, in 1987 was
renamed to B-67.
Decomissioned in to 1994, scrapped in Inkerman,
Sevastopol, in 1995.
Specifications | Builder: |
Baltic Shipyard,
Leningrad, Russia |
Year: |
1965 |
Displacement: |
3,174 Tons Surfaced / 4,137 Tons Dived
|
Speed: |
19 knots Surfaced
/ 14 knots Dived |
Dimensions: |
90 x 10 x 7meters / 297 x 33 x 23 feet
|
Dive Depth: |
240 meters |
Propulsion: |
2 Main Diesel (3500
hp each)
2 Electric Motors (3000 hp each)
300 Tons Silver Zinc Batteries
2 Shafts/Propellers
2 Electric "Silent Run" (150 hp)
1 Diesel Generator (3000 hp) |
Crew: |
82 |
Sonar: |
MG-200 Artika M active
MG-15 Tuloma active
MG-10 Feniks passive
MG-13 intercept array
| Armament: |
4 P-6 Guided Cruise
Missiles
6 Bow torpedo tubes - 21" (533 mm)
4 Stern torpedo tubes - 16" (400 mm)
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