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SOVIET NAVY (USSR)

SUBMARINES

V-2 submarines (1942/1944)

V-2 1944

Name No Yard No Builder Laid down Launched Comp Fate
Â-2 [V-2] (ex-Unbroken, ex-P42)   797 Vickers-Armstrong, Barrow, UK 12.1940 4.11.1941 1/1942 // 5.1944 to UK 2.1949 (Unbroken)
Â-3 [V-3] (ex-Unison, ex-P43)   798 Vickers-Armstrong, Barrow, UK 12.1940 5.11.1941 2/1942 // 5.1944 to UK spring 1950
  

Displacement standard, t

540

Displacement normal, t

646/732

Length, m

60.0

Breadth, m

4.90

Draught, m

4.65

No of shafts

2

Machinery

2 Paxman-Ricardo diesel-generators/ 2 electric motors

Power, h. p.

615 / 825

Max speed, kts

11.25 / 10

Fuel, t

diesel oil 55

Endurance, nm(kts) 4050(10) /

Armament

1 x 1 - 76/45 20cwt QF Mk II, 4 - 533 TT (bow, 8 or 6 mines)

Electronic equipment

type 291W radar, type 129, type 138 sonars

Complement

33

Diving depth operational, m 60

Project history: Former British submarines of U class, transferred to USSR on account of reparations from Italy.

Modernizations: None.

Naval service: No significant events.

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