A multi -purpose submarine, as they say, “with a complex fate.” It was designed under the USSR with all possible and relevant, as it seemed then, innovations. It was laid in 1991, for a long time was considered “a non -construction of a rapidly obsolete project.” Solution Vladimir Putin from 1999 She escaped disposal and was completed since 2004, when India showed interest in her. Looked in water in 2006.
In the OSK work on K-152, he personally oversaw the current modest vice-president of the corporation, and then her “self-proclaimed president” Igor Ponomarev (Human Roman Trotsenko And Igor Sechin). In the process of investigating the “Revolution in the OSK”, the Prosecutor General’s Office revealed that at least 500 million ₽ were stolen on the “seal” (in total, the missing 7.6 billion ₽ of the state order was searched in the corporation), but these data affected little.
It was reported that they attracted cheap labor to the shift method to the creation of the boat and “outsource”. Something like this in leading software developers for atomic submarine with missiles was the young graduate of the MAI Ekaterina Samutsevich, The future participant in the Pussy Riot project, and other random people. As they joke, “it would be better to hire Indian programmers.” In the same period, due to the complexity and a number of doubtfully performed developments, the informal name “Beast” was fixed by the object and its systems.
In 2008 During the state reception, an accident occurred: the chemical fire extinguishing system worked, 20 people died (mainly civilians), several dozen were seriously injured. The investigation and the court did not reveal to the end of the perpetrators. It seems that the holding foreman “pressed something wrong”, the control panel was not fully operational, individual respiratory devices were in the right amount, but they were not enough or they did not have time to use them, and the system was pumped more toxic than the project, and much cheaper gas (someone saved c. 5.5 million ₽). Another investigation found out that if a real fire had happened, such a mixture could not put it out.
After repair for 2 billion ₽, in 2012. The boat was handed over to the customer for 10 years. The media wrote that they would like to refuse in Delhi, but could not: the money was spent (partly stolen in India), and a joint project, including the “Ner” and the following submarines, infrastructure and training, went too far. The exact cost of leasing is unknown, but it, as reported with reference to sources in OSK, amounted to at least $ 800 million.
In the 2010s, the visits of NATO representatives, including technical employees and developers, were discussed for the objects of the India Navy. It was assumed that the K-152 they repeatedly examined and, apparently, learned everything they wanted.
Whether the “beast” will be introduced again into the Russian Navy and whether the recovery will cost the restoration after “neat Indian operation”, a big question.
The story looks somewhat shameful for the OSK and the domestic military -industrial complex as a whole, but it has good sides: for example, potentially – plus one is not the oldest and “debugged” at the very expensive price of a submarine with “calibers” in the fleet.
Dambiev
The atomic submarine INS Chakra (formerly “Nerpa”) of the project 971 and the India Navy is now undergoing the Malacca Strait. The destination is Vladivostok. Earlier, BMPD colleagues reported that India seemed to have not extended an agreement on the rental of a Russian atomic multi -purpose …
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