Newsweek:
The Russian navy is ready to unveil the first vessel from its new breed of nuclear-powered, ballistic-missile submarines.
The Knyaz Vladimir, the first of five upgraded Borei-class submarines commissioned to join the navy’s ranks, will sail in the open for the first time during a ceremony on Friday, the Russian Ministry of Defense announced in a statement on Wednesday. Top navy brass and officials from the Sevmash shipbuilding company, which made the vessel, will attend the ceremony in Russia’s northwestern Arkhangelsk region.
The submarine will lead a much anticipated new batch of Russian vessels that Moscow has said will be a scaled-up version of its standard Borei class, the last of which, the Vladimir Monomakh, arrived in its permanent deployment spot in the Pacific Ocean last year.
