October 9, 2019
The Russian Navy Wants Tiny, Stealth Commando Submarines
The Russian Navy may be getting small, hard to detect submarines for landing frogmen.
by Michael Peck
Two Russian design bureaus have proposed submarines that run on air-independent propulsion, or AIP, a non-nuclear power system that is so quiet that anti-submarine forces have trouble detecting them.
“Ministry of Defense representatives do not hide the fact that they would like to have new types of non-nuclear submarines in our fleet that would combine the advantages of nuclear submarines with smaller dimensions and less acoustic signature,†according to Russian publication Rossiyskaya Gazeta. It has been reported that the Rubin Central Design Bureau of Marine Engineering has been working on a project of such a submarine with an air-independent power plant for several years.â€
https://nationalinterest.org/blog/buzz/russian-navy-wants-tiny-stealth-commando-submarines-86841
