A Russian orthodox priest blessed the new Akademik Makeyev with holy water during the launching ceremony in Severodvinsk earlier in August. It might seems bizarre, the blessing of a vessel that will carry nuclear weapons powerful enough to take out several cities with millions of inhabitants, but in today’s wartime Russia the orthodox church works arm in arm with the Kremlin’s propaganda. […]
The nuclear armament ship Akademik Makeyev will be based in Okolnaya Bay near Severomorsk on the Kola Peninsula. Here, the Northern Fleet has its main reloading facility for nuclear ballistic missiles for Russia’s fleet of Delta-IV and Borei-class submarines.
Like the Gadzhiyevo naval base, this is the location where nuclear warheads are attached to the missiles before being loaded into the tubes on the submarines.
The new vessel has a reinforced hull capable of sailing through ice, Zvezdochka reported in Telegram. While on patrol, ballistic missile submarines can hide under the Arctic ice. With Akademik Makeyev, a submarine in the Arctic can load or unload missiles without sailing back to port. Läs artikel