К-407 "Новомосковск": История атомного подводного ракетоносца

K 407 Novomoskovsk is a Project 667BDRM Delfin class ballistic missile submarine (NATO reporting name Delta IV) of the Russian Navy's Northern Fleet.

Construction of the nuclear submarine K 407 Novomoskovsk began at the Northern Machinebuilding Enterprise (Sevmash) in Severodvinsk on 2 February 1987, and it became part of the Soviet Navy on 27 November 1990. She was the last of seven 667BDRM Delfin submarines and the last SSBN submarine built in the USSR. This class of submarines was developed at the Rubin Design Bureau in 1975 and is considered one of the most successful Soviet submarine missile carrier designs.

The submarine has a submerged displacement of 18,200 tons and a surface displacement of 11,700 tons. It is long and wide. It is powered by two nuclear reactors with a total power of The submarine's immersion depth is ; its surface speed is , and its underwater speed is It carries a crew of 135. Armaments include a D 9RM missile system (16 RSM 54 ballistic missiles) and four torpedo tubes.

On 6 August 1991 at 21:09 Novomoskovsk, under the command of Captain Second Rank Sergey Yegorov, became the world's only submarine to successfully launch an all missile salvo, launching 16 ballistic missiles (RSM 54) of total weight of almost 700 tons at an interval of several seconds (operation code name "Behemoth 2"). The first and the last missiles hit their targets successfully, while the others were self destroyed in the air according to the plan. This operation was considered by the Soviet Navy as a part of possible nuclear war scenario ("Dress rehearsal of the Apocalypse") and experimentally confirmed the technical possibility of a safe underwater all missile salvo. Politically, the Soviet ballistic missile submarines passed a reasonability check as a part of strategic triad. The previous attempt of an all missile salvo (operation code name "Behemoth") was performed in 1989 and finished unsuccessfully, however with no casualties. As the experiment took place just before the August Putsch in the USSR, its results were forgotten for a while, and the crew's work wasn't rewarded by the Soviet government authorities. collided with Grayling. The American submarine was trailing the Russian submarine and miscalculated its speed. Both submarines returned to their homeports, and though badly damaged both returned to service. Grayling was decommissioned in 1997, while Novomoskovsk remains in service 30 years later. In 1996, Novomoskovsk, together with the submarine Russian submarine K 447, successfully fired a batch of ballistic missiles. The city of Novomoskovsk in Tula Oblast took the submarine under its patronage, and on June 19, 1997, K 407 received the name Novomoskovsk. On 7 July 1998, Novomoskovsk, under the command of Captain 1st Rank Aleksandr Moiseyev, launched a Shtil 1 carrier rocket with two German scientific Tubsat N and Tubsat N1 microsatellites while submerged in the Barents Sea. The satellite, developed by Berlin Technical University, was placed in orbit on an SS N 23 (RSM 54) type ballistic missile. The Northern Fleet was paid some 200,000 German Mark (US$111,000) for the launch. On 17 February 2004, Novomoskovsk seemingly attempted to test fire a SS N 23 ballistic missile, but the missile failed to come out of its silo because of an unspecified technical problem. The Russian Navy, despite earlier statements describing the test, explained that no "physical" launch was intended at all: the exercise was supposed to be a simulation. President of Russia Vladimir Putin was aboard Russian submarine Arkhangelsk, an Akula class ballistic missile submarine (NATO reporting name Typhoon), to observe the exercise. On 17 March 2004, Novomoskovsk physically test fired two SS N 23 ballistic missiles, successfully hitting designated practice targets on the Kamchatka Peninsula. Like the other 667BDRM Delfin ships in service with the Northern Fleet, K 407 is slated to receive new SLBMs to replace the RSM 54. The missile is a new build, minor modernization of the RSM 54. It does not bear a separate designator from the RSM 54/R 29RM/SS N 23 asides from the name "Sineva". Testing of the R 29RM "Sineva" was completed in June 2004. Novomoskovsk is the third Delfin class submarine in line to receive the new missile (after her siblings K 51 Verkhoturye and K 84 Ekaterinburg). She was fully overhauled and modernized in 2006 before returning to service. In July 2006, cleric of Aleksandr Nevskiy Cathedral, the head of the Diocesan department on interaction with the Armed Forces and law enforcement agencies, priest Leonid Leontiuk was temporarily included in the personnel list of the K 18 Kareliya and was on board of K 407 Novomoskovsk. During the deployment the priest has performed the consecration ceremony of submarine's compartments, met with submarine personnel, led discussions on the basics of faith and spiritual life. Six sailors got baptized on board. In November 2008 K 407 Novomoskovsk went to the Zvezdochka plant for general overhaul and modernization. On 29 July 2012 the refit was finished and the submarine returned to active service. The submarine was expected to remain in service until 2020. However, she was still listed in commission as of 2022.

Novomoskovsk was described in Russian sources as being "worthy" of the proud name of "the most shooting" submarine of the Russian Navy. As a member of association of Russian regions and cities, patrons of Northern Fleet ships and units, the Tula Oblast patronages K 114 Tula and K 407 Novomoskovsk submarines and assists in "patriotic education" and preparation of young people for serving in the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation. Citizens of Novomoskovsk have preference to serve on K 407 Novomoskovsk. The submarine crew are regularly provided by humanitarian goods and visited by the city authorities. In 2021, Rockstar Games added to GTA Online Kosatka, A Submarine owned by player, and run by Russian sailor called Pavel. The Submarine is highly based on 407 Novomoskovsk