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| Last Soviet Romeo submarine retired to Balaklava |
| 2021-11-14 |
| Direct Translation via Google Translate. Edited. [Regnum] The last surviving submarine of Project 633RV (Romeo) was towed to the underground museum complex in Balaklava. The submarine S-49 was sent to the underground museum after repair and restoration work, the hull of the boat was updated and painted. As a permanent exhibit, the submarine will be placed in the dry dock of the museum complex. The dry dock is a reinforced concrete pool 100 meters long and over 8 thousand cubic meters in volume. The S-49 submarine was laid down at the Krasnoye Sormovo plant in Gorky (Nizhny Novgorod) on March 29, 1952 and launched in July 1961. At the end of the 60s, the S-49 was reequipped for testing the anti-submarine systems "Waterfall" and "Wind" and until 1985 was involved in testing all missile-torpedoes in service with the Navy. In 2019, the submarine was withdrawn from the Black Sea Fleet. |
| Posted by:badanov |
| #4 Underground bunker full of soviet era weapons is the perfect staging point to counter-attack The Cylons. |
| Posted by: swksvolFF 2021-11-14 14:39 |
| #3 Evidently they have no plans to ever use that dry dock for anything, ever again. Not with a museum exhibit parked in it. |
| Posted by: ed in texas 2021-11-14 10:46 |
| #2 " O Romeo, Romeo, wherefore art thou Romeo? ". I am in Balaklava, Juliette, a settlement on the Crimean Peninsula and part of the city of Sevastopol. It is an administrative center of Balaklava Raion (Region) that used to be part of the Crimean Oblast before it was transferred to Sevastopol Municipality. Population: 18,649 |
| Posted by: Dopey Bonaparte9951 2021-11-14 05:36 |
| #1 Such a magical place. So much history. a href="">Balaklava and even Sevatopol; A grand communication error. |
| Posted by: Dale 2021-11-14 03:40 |