MOSCOW, July 02. /ITAR-TASS/. The construction of the firth Project 955A strategic nuclear submarine and the fourth Project 855M multirole submarine will begin on July 27, a week later than was initially planned, a source in the Russian defense industry told ITAR-TASS on Wednesday, July 2.
“The change of the date is not connected with technical reasons and has been necessitated solely by the fact that July 27 is Navy Day in Russia,” the source said.
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