Just Above Sunset
Volume 5, Number 10
March 11, 2007

Cold War Scorpion

 The world as seen from Just Above Sunset -

"Notes on how things seem from out here in Hollywood..."

Cold War Scorpion - The Russian Attack Submarine in Los Angeles Waters

In last week's issue, Our Man in Paris, Ric Erickson, editor of MetropoleParis, told us of the odd Russian submarine in the middle of Paris, with pictures and everything. It was just sitting in the round pond at the Tuileries gardens - really.

Every major city should have a Russian submarine. In Long Beach, docked next to the actual Queen Mary, there's our Russian submarine - Russian Attack Submarine 'Scorpion' b-427 - and it's real too (to the right, the aft torpedo room) -

  • Russian Designator: Project 641
  • NATO Designator: Foxtrot-Class
  • Manufacturer's Number: b-427
  • Built: 1972
  • Decommissioned: 1994
  • Length: 299 feet, 6 inches
  • Beam: 24 feet, 7 inches
  • Draft: 20 feet
  • Displacement: 1,952 tons surfaced, 2,475 tons submerged
  • Built: Sudomekh Shipyard, Leningrad
  • Construction: 3/8 inch outer light hull comprising ballast tanks. 7/8 inch QT28 Nickel Steel pressure hull.
  • Complement: 12 officers, 10 midshipmen, 56 seamen
  • Maximum Diving Depth: 985 feet
  • Speed: 16 knots surfaced, 15 knots submerged, 9 knots snorkeling
  • Range: 20,000 miles surfaced at 8 knots 11,000 miles snorkeling 380 miles submerged at 2 knots
  • Endurance: 3 - 5 days submerged
  • Propulsion: 3 x Kolomna 2D42M diesel engines, 2,000 hp each. 3 x electric motors; 2 with 1,350 hp and 1 with 2,700 hp. 1 x auxiliary motor with 180 hp. 3 x propeller shafts, each with 6 bladed propellers.
  • Torpedoes: 22 maximum
  • Radar: Surface search: Snoop Tray; I band.
  • Sonar: Herkules medium-frequency active/passive. Feniks passive search/attack.
Russian Attack Submarine 'Scorpion' b-427, Long Beach, California

Click on the link for more information on our sub.  And great thanks to the staff there for good chat and full access.

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Russian Attack Submarine 'Scorpion' b-427, Long Beach, California
Russian Attack Submarine 'Scorpion' b-427, Long Beach, California
Russian Attack Submarine 'Scorpion' b-427, Long Beach, California
Russian Attack Submarine 'Scorpion' b-427, Long Beach, California
Russian Attack Submarine 'Scorpion' b-427, Long Beach, California
Russian Attack Submarine 'Scorpion' b-427, Long Beach, California

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If you use any of these photos for commercial purposes I assume you'll discuss that with me.

These were shot with a Nikon D70 - using lens (1) AF-S Nikkor 18-70 mm 1:35-4.5G ED, or (2) AF Nikkor 70-300mm telephoto, or after 5 June 2006, (3) AF-S DX Zoom-Nikkor, 55-200 mm f/4-5.6G ED. They were modified for web posting using Adobe Photoshop 7.0

The original large-format raw files are available upon request.

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Last updated Saturday, March 10, 2007, 10:30 pm Pacific Time

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