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.
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Moin,
Fleet Admiral Moiseyev's statement was made in an interview with the Russian army newspaper „Krasnaya Zvezda“ (in German: „Red Star“; the website of this publication has since been blocked in the European Union as part of the sanctions against the Russian Federation in the context of the Ukraine war; however, there are ways and means on the Internet to circumvent this blocking and gain access to this newspaper) on 19 March 2026. The „Day of the Submariner“ is celebrated annually in Russia on 19 March.
In the information published above, projects 945 and 949 were interchanged; the correct wording should be:
Project 945 („Kondor“, 111 metres, 8,500 tonnes), and Project 949 („Antey“, 154 metres, 18,000 tonnes).
In NATO, Project 971 submarines are referred to as the „Akula“ class, Project 945 as the „Sierra“ class and Project 949 as the „Oscar“ class.