| | Nuclear-powered cruise
missile submarines
Project 659NATO:
Echo I Ñlass
Completed 5
+ 1 units
Ships Shipyard ¹199,
Komsomolsk-on-Amur
| Name |
Yard ¹ |
Laid Down |
Launched |
Commissioned |
Note |
| K-45 |
¹140 | 22.12.1958
| 12.05.1960 |
28.06.1961 | |
| K-59 |
¹141 | 30.09.1959 |
25.09.1960 | 16.12.1961 | from
25.07.1977 - Ê-259 | | K-66 |
¹142 | 26.03.1960 |
30.07.1961 | 30.06.1962 | |
| K-122 |
¹143 | 21.01.1961 |
17.09.1961 | 30.09.1962 | |
| K-151 |
¹144 | 21.04.1962 |
30.09.1962 | 28.07.1963 | |
| K-30 |
¹145 | 1961 |
- | - | not
completed |
General characteristics
- Project 659
| Displacement (tons): | | Surfaced: | 3731 |
| Submerged: | 4920 |
| Dimensions (m): | | Length: | 111,2 |
| Beam: | 9,2 |
| Draught: | 7,1 | | Speed
(knots): | | Surfaced: | 15,1 |
| Submerged: | 26 |
| Range: | Unlimited |
| Diving depth (m): | | Operational: | 240 |
| Maximum: | 300 |
| Endurance (days): | 50 |
| Propulsion: | 2x70 MW VM-A
nuclear reactors, 2x17500 hp GTZA-601, 2x450 hp PG-116 electric motors, 2 fixed
pitch propellers, 2x1400 kW GPM-21 generators, 2x460 kW DG-460 generators |
| Armament: | 6 P-5 cruise missiles
launchers (from 1962 - P-5D) – Sever-A659U fire control
4 533 mm bow torpedo
tubes – 12 53-61, SET-65 torpedoes
4 400 mm (2 bow torpedo tubes, 2 stern
torpedo tubes) – 4 torpedoes | | Electronics: |
RLK-101 Albatros radar complex, Nakat ESM Radar system, Nikhrom IFF, Arktika-M
sonar MG-200, Plutoniy mine search sonar, MG-10 Kola noise detection sonar,
MG-15 Sviyaga communications system, Svet-M communications system, MG-13 sonar,
Pluton-659 navigation complex | | Complement: | 104 |
Schematics 
Nuclear-powered cruise missile submarine - Project 659
Nuclear-powered attack submarine - Project 659T
Modernizations Project 659T – 5 units: Zvezda, Bolshoy Kamen`
– K-45 31.12.1966-12.09.1968, K-59 02.1967-12.1970, K-66 08.1970-10.10.1973, K-122
30.03.1964-30.10.1968, K-151 16.07.1973-21.12.1976. 3650/4709 tons, draught 6,2
m, cruise missiles removed, 20 533 mm torpedoes, 12 400 mm torpedoes (SET-40 torpedoes,
4 MG-44 Korund-1 torpedo decoy), ?/24 knots, crew 98 (26 officers), special
MGS-29 active sonar
Fleets Pacific
Fleet: K-45, 59, 66, 122, 151
Hull
Numbers K-59: 551
Decommissioned 1985
– K-122 (28.10)
1986 – K-66 (12.10)
1989 – K-45 (30.05), K-151 (30.05),
K-59 (14.03)
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