Echo I
K.45
1960
(Quadrant Q-248)
- Class: Echo I - Project 659 - 5 nuclear-powered cruise missile submarines of 1956
- Displacement: 4,500 surfaced / 5,500 submerged tons
- Dimensions: 365 x 30 x 23 ft
- Machinery: 2 pressurized water nuclear reactors 25,000 shp each; 2 shafts = 20 surfaced / 25 submerged knots
- Missiles: 6 type P5 (SS-N3C Shaddock-B) cruise missiles
- Torpedo tubes: 4-21in (forward); 2-16in (aft)
- Complement: 104
- Builder: Komsomolsk
- Laid Down: 28 Dec 1957
- Launched: 12 May 1959
- Completed: 18 Sep 1960
- Notes: One of 5 SSGNs armed with land-attack cruise missiles, but serving in strategic role because of lack of fire control and guidance radars. As Soviet SSBN force built up, these were converted to Project 659T SSNs between 1969 and 1974. Stricken in 1990.
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