After more than six years of modernization, the submarine Bryansk The Russian Army is ready to carry out deterrence patrols in the Arctic Ocean. Thus, Vladimir Putin seems to be preparing to threaten the enemy when The New START Treaty expires in February 2026.
According to the Norwegian media “with the introduction of these new submarines and the simultaneous maintenance of the older fleet, the maximum possible number of nuclear weapons deployed by Russia at sea, will far exceed the limits that Moscow has agreed with the United States“.
“Only the Bryansk can carry 16 Sineva missiles and each of them is armed with four re-entry nuclear warheads,” laments the media. This means that, this 2025, “Russia’s Northern Fleet It will have the capacity to deploy up to 96 ballistic missiles with between 384 and 448 nuclear warheads.“.
According to the publication, the modernization work lasted more than six years, and the vehicle was seen for the first time in the icy waters of the White Sea. “The tests are a normal procedure for all submarines that have received upgrades. How long they will take will depend on when the Zvezdockha shipyard and the Northern Fleet agree on the seaworthiness of all technical, weapons and navigation systems on board“.
Thus, “with the return of Bryansk”the Northern Fleet has four submarines Delta-IV operational. Three others are Tula (K-114), Verkhoturye (K-51) y Novomoskovsk (K-407)”. Along with these, A total of five ballistic missile submarines are added, and the Karelia is next on the list to upgrade.
It should be noted that the latter “is the submarine in which Vladimir Putin spent a night on board in April 2000, when he oversaw a partially unsuccessful exercise that was supposed to launch a ballistic missile into the Barents Sea, just north of the Russian city of Severomorsk.”
