At the end of March, Fleet Admiral Alexander Moiseyev announced that by 2035 the newbuildings of the Jasen class (Project 885/885M, 135 metres, 12,000 tonnes), which was recently expanded to fourteen units, are to replace all twenty or so third-generation nuclear-powered attack submarines that were still being planned and built by the Soviets in the 1990s.

According to NATO nomenclature, these are the Akula I/II, Sierra II and Oscar II classes, i.e. Project 971U/M („Shuka-B“, 110 metres, 9,000 tonnes), Project 945 („Antey“, 111 metres, 8,500 tonnes) and Project 949 („Kondor“, 154 metres, 18,000 tonnes) in accordance with Russian nomenclature. The boats of the fourth technological generation, the Jasen and Jasen M boats, are significantly less radiating, more advanced in terms of sensor technology and data processing, but also more effectively armed with Kalibr, Onix and Zircon missiles. That sounds like a clear, financially, logistically and operationally driven type rationalisation. If it weren't for the decades of lying around in the bays of the White Sea as a reserve until the cost-intensive dismantling of the nuclear reactors.