Beluga-class submarine
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|Ship length={{convert|62.0 |
| 65.5|m|ftin|abbr=on}}
|Ship beam={{convert|6.3 |
| 8.7|m|ftin|abbr=on}}
|Ship height= |Ship draught={{convert|5.6 |
| 6.0|m|ftin|abbr=on}}
|Ship depth= |Ship power= |Ship propulsion=Diesel-electric |Ship speed=*{{convert|10|kn|km/h}} surfaced
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| 24|kn|km/h}} submerged
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Project 1710 Makrel ({{langx|ru|1710 «Макрель»}}; NATO reporting name "Beluga") was a Russian SSA diesel-electric submarine. It was an experimental vessel used for testing propulsion systems, hull forms, and boundary-layer control techniques.
Development was undertaken by the Malakhit Design Bureau with construction at the Admiralty shipyard in St. Petersburg.
The lone Beluga-class submarine in operation was S-553 Forel. Launched in 1986 and moth-balled around 1998, the last operation of the vessel is thought to have taken place in 1997. As of the mid-2000s, the entire project is believed to have been discontinued.
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External links
- [https://web.archive.org/web/20090403094054/http://www.fas.org/man/dod-101/sys/ship/row/rus/1710.htm Federation of American Scientists: Project 1710 Mackerel Beluga class]
- [http://www.hazegray.org/worldnav/russia/submar.htm World Navies Today: Russian Submarines]
{{Soviet and Russian submarines after 1945}}
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