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Photographer:
Allan J. Kortsen [ View profile ]
Captured:
Aug 13, 2012
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Vmf K24
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Museum Ships
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Aug 22, 2014
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2,758 x 4,000

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VMF K24 (JULIETT U-461).

VMF, literally: "Military Maritime Fleet of the USSR", was the naval arm of the Soviet Armed Forces.

K-24 Decommissioned in 1994, sold to German maritime museum, Peenemünde. Moored at the pier of the former naval base of the 1st Flotilla, as JULIETT U-461, Peenemünde, Germany.

More info: http://www.u-461.de/www.u-461.de/History.html

The Project 651, known in the West by its NATO reporting name Juliett class, was a class of Soviet diesel-electric submarines armed with cruise missiles. They were designed in the late 1950s to provide the Soviet Navy with a nuclear strike capability against targets along the east coast of the United States and enemy combatant’s aircraft carriers.

Armament: Four SS-N-3 Shaddock (P-5 or P-6), or SS-N-12 Sandbox (P-500 4K-80 Basalt) nuclear-capable cruise missiles, six 533 mm (21-inch) bow torpedo tubes with 18 torpedoes, four 400 mm (16-inch) stern torpedo tubes with four torpedoes.

Ref. Wikipedia

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