Russian submarine Vepr
K-157 Vepr in 2008
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History | |
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Name | Vepr |
Builder | Sevmash |
Laid down | 16 June 1990 |
Launched | 10 December 1994 |
Christened | 6 April 1993 |
Completed | 29 June 1995 |
Commissioned | 25 November 1995 |
Homeport | Gadzhievo |
Status | in active service |
General characteristics | |
Class and type | nuclear-powered attack submarine |
Type | Project 971U Shchuka-B (Akula-II) |
Displacement | 8,140 tonnes surfaced, 12,770 tonnes submerged |
Length | 114.3 meters |
Beam | 13.6 meters |
Draught | 9.7 meters |
Propulsion | one 190MWt OK-650V reactor |
Speed | 24 knots |
Complement | 62 sailors |
Armament | 4 × 533 mm torpedo tubes (28 torpedoes), naval mines and 4 × 650 mm torpedo tubes (12 torpedoes), also torpedo tube launched missiles |
Vepr (K-157) (
1998 incident
Shortly before midnight, 10 September 1998, Vepr was in port at
He barricaded himself in the torpedo room, and for 20 hours repeatedly threatened to set a fire to detonate the torpedoes.[5][6] While Vepr had no nuclear weapons and her reactor was shut down, the detonation of her torpedoes while she was tied up at the dock would have ruptured her reactor, creating what the regional director of the Federal Security Service (FSB), Vladimir Prikhodko described as "a nuclear catastrophe ... a second Chernobyl."[7]
Attempts to persuade him to surrender failed.
Kuzminykh was found fit when he was conscripted at a St. Petersburg enlistment office, even though he had suffered from a mental disorder and had been inhaling intoxicants. When Kuzminykh volunteered for the submarine service, he passed additional medical and psychiatric tests with high marks. It was later declared that he suffered from a mental illness that was not detected in the draft.[5][10][11]
In the aftermath of the incident Russia made efforts to improve recruitment and monitoring of military personnel deployed on nuclear-powered vessels. Only professional, not conscript sailors, could serve on them.[12][13]
Refurbishment
The submarine was the first of the Akula classes (Project 971 and 971U) to be refurbished. All of them will be equipped to carry the Kalibr type missiles. Vepr rejoined the Northern Fleet in March 2020. It is expected to remain in service for another 25–30 years.[14] In July 2022, the submarine was monitored on the surface by NATO naval forces as she transited from the Northern Fleet to the Baltic in company with the Yasen-class submarine Severodvinsk.[15]
References
- ISSN 0190-8286. Retrieved 11 December 2023.
- ^ a b c d "Russian sailor dies in sub shoot-out". BBC News. 11 September 1998. Retrieved 11 December 2023.
- ^ "Происшествия на Северном флоте" [Incidents in the Northern Fleet]. Kommersant (in Russian). No. 140. 7 August 1999. p. 2. Retrieved 11 December 2023.
- ^ ""Включите музыку и приготовьтесь к смерти"" ["Turn up the music and prepare to die"]. Kommersant (in Russian). No. 96. 5 June 1999. p. 1. Retrieved 11 December 2023.
- ^ a b c "Матрос Расстрелял 8 Человек За То, Что Его Обзывали "тормозом"" [A Sailor Shot 8 People For Calling Him "Slow"]. Moskovskij Komsomolets (in Russian). 20 May 1999. Retrieved 11 December 2023.
- Аргументы и факты (in Russian). No. 37. Archivedfrom the original on 11 September 2017. Retrieved 11 December 2023.
- ^ Hoffman, David (18 September 1998). "Russia's Nuclear Force Sinks With The Ruble". The Washington Post. Retrieved 11 December 2023.
- ^ "Подводная лодка" [The submarine]. Kommersant (in Russian). No. 169. 12 September 1998. p. 3. Retrieved 11 December 2023.
- ^ Myre, Greg (12 September 1998). "Sailor shot dead after killing eight crew members on Russian submarine". Ludington Daily News. AP. p. 11. Retrieved 11 December 2023 – via Google News Archive.
- ^ "Мать требует 2 миллиона 166 тысяч рублей за убитого в армии сына" [Mother demands 2 million 166 thousand rubles for her son killed in the army]. Komsomolskaya Pravda (in Russian). 14 February 2001. Retrieved 11 December 2023.
- ^ "Матрос-террорист" [A terrorist sailor]. Kommersant (in Russian). No. 170. 15 September 1998. p. 5. Retrieved 11 December 2023.
- JSTOR 26326177.
- ^ Chapman, Geoffrey; Hobbs, Christopher; Homan, Zenobia; Mahlouly, Dounia; Salisbury, Daniel; Tzinieris, Sarah (September 2018). "Case Study 5: Incident at Gadzhiyevo Naval Base Incident, Russia". Radicalisation and Preventative Measures: An Educational Handbook of Insider Threat Case Studies (PDF). Centre For Science & Security Studies, King's College London. pp. 35–39.
- ^ Staalesen, Atle (24 March 2020). "First modernized Akula attack submarine returns to Northern Fleet". The Barents Observer. Archived from the original on 25 March 2020. Retrieved 25 March 2020.
- ^ "Royal Navy shadows Russian attack submarines from the Arctic into the North Sea". Navy Lookout. 22 July 2022. Retrieved 23 July 2022.
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