Post by torpedo on Sept 7, 2019 22:26:28 GMT
Project 641 NATO code named Foxtrot
The boats of their class were the follow on from the Project 611 NATO codenamed Zulu as well as to sip lime my the Project 613 NATO codenamed Whiskey.
Built between 1957 and 1983 71 vessels would be completed, and quite a few would see service in foreign navies.
The Foxtrot was a long range conventional boat and is actually quite large, 90 meters long 7.5meters wide and displacing 2,500ton submerged they were similar in proportion to the Zulu.
Powered by 3 Kolomna D42 engines these boats could achieve a range of around 20,000 miles (in absolute perfect conditions) the reality is their range was much less but still enough to cross the Atlantic and into the Caribbean from the northern bases and back without refuelling (1962 Cuban missile crisis)
Unlike the Zulu the Foxtrot would remain relatively unchanged externally at least, the first Foxtrot would be commissioned in 1958 and the last would leave service in 2014 (Ukraine Zaporizhzhia)
The Foxtrot were obsolete by the late 1960’s more advances in quietening and also weapons meant that realistically the submarine run should have been cut short but it wasn’t the last submarine run was for Cuba which had ordered 6 units the last being delivered in 1983, by then the Foxtrot had been superseded by the tango class and also the Kilo was coming online
The boats of their class were the follow on from the Project 611 NATO codenamed Zulu as well as to sip lime my the Project 613 NATO codenamed Whiskey.
Built between 1957 and 1983 71 vessels would be completed, and quite a few would see service in foreign navies.
The Foxtrot was a long range conventional boat and is actually quite large, 90 meters long 7.5meters wide and displacing 2,500ton submerged they were similar in proportion to the Zulu.
Powered by 3 Kolomna D42 engines these boats could achieve a range of around 20,000 miles (in absolute perfect conditions) the reality is their range was much less but still enough to cross the Atlantic and into the Caribbean from the northern bases and back without refuelling (1962 Cuban missile crisis)
Unlike the Zulu the Foxtrot would remain relatively unchanged externally at least, the first Foxtrot would be commissioned in 1958 and the last would leave service in 2014 (Ukraine Zaporizhzhia)
The Foxtrot were obsolete by the late 1960’s more advances in quietening and also weapons meant that realistically the submarine run should have been cut short but it wasn’t the last submarine run was for Cuba which had ordered 6 units the last being delivered in 1983, by then the Foxtrot had been superseded by the tango class and also the Kilo was coming online
Having been on a Foxtrot myself in Belgium (now closed sub now scrapped) it was a great experience one that not many actually get to do, in recent years several museums have closed down so it’s quite lucky to get on board one before they are gone
