http://sdelanounas.ru/blogs/20313/

Now that the Delta IV's have completed their mid-life overhauls the slipways at Zvezdochka are free to take on upgrade work on the Oscar II's. The K-410 Smolensk is the second ship of the class following the Voronezh to go in for mid-life overhaul. It went into the yard in November 2011 and was put back in the water on August 5th. It has about a year of peer side work -- installing new electronic goodies -- and trials ahead of it. It will be returned to the fleet sometime in August of 2013.

Damn, Russian stuff looks so bad ***. Pardon my ignorance, but what the hell comes out of that hatch above all them there big *** torpedo tubes?

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That's the torpedo loading hatch. Great looking boat. He looks every bit the killer.

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that sub looks huge,wish i could read russian,wonder what everyone below the picture is talking about.lookin at all them backword letters gives me a headache.still good looking tub.how good is the oscar 2.

Oh, so it's the hatch for loading torpedoes. Well, it would have been cool if it was for extending one of those "old tyme" submarine ramming saws. Yeah, that would be cool, and if anyone would make one for a modern submarine, it would be the Ruskys.

Thanks Randy.

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