The submarine Novorossiysk is the first in a series of six Project 636.3 subs built at the Admiralty Shipyard in St. Petersburg in Russia’s northwest for the Russian Black Sea Fleet
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Some naval strategists see the 21st century as the era of the nuclear-powered sub, with the United States doing away with diesel-electric boats entirely in the 1990s.
The ships are powered by two diesel generators and an electric drive, giving them enough power to make ten knots at the surface and seventeen knots underwater.