- Title: Russia's Putin launches nuclear-powered submarine as he visits Arctic naval base
- Date: 28th March 2025
- Summary: MURMANSK, RUSSIA (MARCH 27, 2025) (RUSSIAN POOL) PUTIN ENTERING CREW MESS FOLLOWED BY GLADKOV PUTIN SITTING / SHIP'S COOK POURING HIM TEA /MOISEEV SITTING TO PUTIN'S LEFT / GLADKOV STANDING TO HIS RIGHT CREW MEMBER SPEAKING AS OTHERS LISTEN PUTIN SPEAKING CREW MEMBER SPEAKING MOISEEV, PUTIN AND GLADKOV / PUTIN SITTING DOWN TO SIGN BOOK OF HONORARY GUESTS PUTIN WRITING PUTI
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- Keywords: Navy Putin Russia Tsirkon hypersonic missile nuclear sibmarine
- Location: MURMANSK AND SEVERODVINSK, RUSSIA
- City: MURMANSK AND SEVERODVINSK, RUSSIA
- Country: Russia
- Topics: Defence,Europe,Government/Politics
- Reuters ID: LVA004232028032025RP1
- Aspect Ratio: 16:9
- Story Text: President Vladimir Putin on Thursday (March 27) launched a nuclear-powered submarine equipped with hypersonic Zircon missiles capable of traveling at several times the speed of sound.
Putin launched the vessel, named Perm after a city in the Urals, with the order: "I hereby authorize!" The launching ceremony was held via video link to a shipyard in Severodvinsk.
Russian leader said, the Perm is the first nuclear-powered submarine to be equipped with hypersonic Zircon cruise missiles as a standard feature.
Zircon missiles have a range of 1000 km (620 miles) and their speed renders them very difficult to defend against.
The Perm is the sixth submarine in Russia's Yasen and Yasen-M classes built by the Sevmash shipyard near Murmansk.
The Russian agency's reports said the vessel's construction specifications differed slightly from earlier models in the same class.
While in Murmansk, Putin visited a submarine named Arkhangelsk, also in the same class, and toured the Atomflot enterprise, which oversees Russia's icebreaker projects. - Copyright Holder: POOL (CAN SELL)
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