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Ask-class submarine
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Ask on patrol in 1969
Class overview
Name: Ask-class ballistic missile submarine
Builders: Yanmei Shipyard Co.
Operators:
Succeeded by: Leviathan class
Planned: 4
Completed: 4
Active: 0
Retired: 4
Preserved: 1
General characteristics
Type: Ballistic missile submarine
Displacement:
  • 7,600 tonnes (surfaced)
  • 8,500 tonnes (submerged)
Length: 129.5 m (424 ft 10 inches)
Beam: 10.1 m (33 ft 2 inches)
Draft: 9.0 m (29 ft 6 inches)
Installed power: 1 x Fushan Atomics SS2 nuclear reactor producing 20,000 shp (15 MW)
Propulsion:
  • 1 x shaft driving:
    • 1 x seven-bladed, skewback propeller
Speed:
  • 20 knots (37 km/h) surfaced
  • 25 knots (46 km/h) submerged
Range: Unlimited
Complement: 13 officers, 130 enlisted
Crew: 143
Armament:
  • 6 × 21 inch (533 mm torpedo tubes for:
  • 16 × ballistic missile tubes for:
    • (initially)
    • 16 x SLIM I SLBMs, each carrying one 1.2 Mt thermonuclear warhead
    • (post-1973)
    • 16 x SLIM II SLBMs, each carrying fourteen 40 kt thermonuclear warheads

Development

Design

General characteristics

Power & propulsion

Armament

Sensors & countermeasures

Service history

Boats

Name Hull No. Builder Laid down Launched Commissioned Status
Ask SSBN-01 Yanmei Shipyard Co., Yanmei Decommissioned
Embla SSBN-02 Decommissioned
Líf SSBN-03 Decommissioned
Lífþrasir SSBN-04 Decommissioned