Technical Data

    Reactor

          Two pressurised water reactors, model OK-700 with a VM-4 type reactor core
          generating 2 x 90 MWt. Shaft power 2 x 20 000 hp. There are 250 fuel assemblies.

     Naval Architect

          S.N. Kovalov, SKB-18.

    Nuclear Weapons

          Twelve (12) RSM-40/R-29 O type missiles (SS-N-12).

     Construction Yard

          Ten (10) Delta-I submarines were built at Severodvinsk in the period from 1971 to 1976.
          Another eight were built in Komsomolsk from 1974 to 1977.

     Base

          Gremikha.

     Compartments

          10

     Individual Submarines

     Northern Fleet:

          K-279 - Commissioned in 1972. To the Northern Fleet on Dec 22. Factory no.310.
                        Laid down in 1971. Launched in 1972.

          K-447 - Commissioned in 1973. Factory no. 311. Still in use today.
                        The submarine was defuelled in 1994
                        The spent fuel transferred to the service ship PM-63 in Severodvinsk.

          K-450 - Commissioned in 1973. Factory no.312

K-385 - Commissioned in 1974. Factory no.324

K-457 - Commissioned in 1974. Factory no.325. Still in service.

K-465 - Commissioned in 1974. Factory no.326

K-460 - Commissioned in 1975. Factory no.337

K-472 - Commissioned in 1975. Factory no.338

     Pacific Fleet:

          K-336 - Commissioned in 1974

K-417 - Commissioned in 1974

          K-477 - Commissioned in 1975

K-497 - Commissioned in 1975

          K-500 - Commissioned in 1976

          K-512 - Commissioned in 1976

          K-523 - Commissioned in 1977

          K-530 - Commissioned in 1977

          K-171 - Commissioned in 1976. Factory no.340
                        Transferred from the Northern Fleet to the Pacific Fleet later in the same year.