The
Soviet Union's Project 949 (Granit) and Project
949A (Antey)
submarines are known in the West by their
NATO reporting names: the
Oscar-I and
Oscar-II classes
respectively.
Two Oscar-I submarines were built at Severodvinsk[?]
and assigned to the Soviet Northern Fleet[?]:
Ten Oscar-II submarines were built at Severodvinsk[?].
Six were assigned to the Soviet Northern Fleet[?]:
- Soviet submarine K-148[?], Krasnodar, commissioned 1986
- Soviet submarine K-119[?], Voronezh, commissioned 1988
- Soviet submarine K-410[?], Smolensk, commissioned 1990
- Soviet submarine K-266[?], Orel, formerly Severodvinsk, commissioned 1992
- Soviet submarine K-186[?], Omsk, launched May 8, 1993, commissioned October 27, 1993
- Soviet submarine K-141, Kursk, laid down 1992, launched 1994, commissioned December 1994, lost August 12, 2000
Four were assigned to the Soviet Pacific Fleet[?]:
- Displacement when surfaced: 13,400 tons (Oscar-I), 14,700 tons maximum (Oscar-II)
- Displacement when submerged: 20,540 tons (Oscar-I), 24,000 tons (Oscar-II)
- Length: 144 meters (Oscar-I), 155 meters (Oscar-II)
- Beam: 18.2 meters
- Draft: 9 meters (Oscar-I) 9.2 meters (Oscar-II)
- Max depth: Oscar-I - 400 meters regular, 450 critical. Oscar-II - 500 meters regular, 600 critical.
- Compartments: 10
- Complement: 48 officers, 68 men (Oscar-I) or 59 men (Oscar-II)
- Reactor: Two OK-650b pressurised water reactors generating 190MW each.
- Propulsion: two shafts, each 49,000hp
- Speed (submerged): 30 knots (Oscar-I), 28 knots (Oscar-II)
- Strategic armament: 24 Granit SS-N-19 missiles[?] in two banks of 12 tubes mounted outside the pressure hull
- Defensive armament: four 533mm and two 650mm bow torpedo tubes