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or more than 100 years submarines have been one of the best means of deterrence combining stealth, reconnaissance capabilities and preventive strike. It is much more difficult to detect a submarine than land and airborne weapons. If you confront, in comparison with other types of weapons, the cumulative efficiency of a submarine with her cost as well as results that can be achieved using various types of weapons, it will turn out that a submarine (considering all the aspects) is a rather cheap type of weapon. In total, more than eight hundred non-nuclear sub-
The Russian Northern Fleet operates the head submarine of Project 677, SaintPetersburg
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marines have been built to the designs developed by Central Design Bureau for Marine Engineering Rubin that traces its history back to 1901. Rubin also offers to a Customer training systems, training centres and other useful options. The company provides refit and modification of delivered ships. For several decades, relationships of friendship and strategic partnership have been successfully developing between Russia and India, especially in the military sphere based on our mutual respect and mutually beneficial cooperation. Nearly half a century lasts coopera-
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