AS-26 during a 2020 rescue exercise
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History | |
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Russia | |
Name | AS-26 |
Laid down | April 1986 |
Launched | 27 August 1987 |
Commissioned | 25 November 1987 |
Status | Active |
General characteristics | |
Class and type | Priz-class deep-submergence rescue vehicle |
Displacement | 55 t (54 long tons) |
Length | 13.5 m (44 ft 3 in) |
Beam | 3.8 m (12 ft 6 in) |
Height | 4.6 m (15 ft 1 in) |
Speed |
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Range | 21 nmi (39 km; 24 mi) |
Endurance |
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Test depth | 1,000 m (3,300 ft) |
Capacity | 20 passengers |
Crew | 5 |
AS-26 is a Priz-class deep-submergence rescue vehicle (DSRV), or rescue mini-submarine, which went into service in 1987.[1] The DSRV first entered service with the Soviet Navy but became part of the Russian Navy after the dissolution of the Soviet Union.
Before June 1995 AS-26 was first assigned to the Soviet and then to Russia's Northern Fleet. From then on the DSRV was assigned to Russia's Baltic Fleet.[1]
It is deployed from the Kashtan-class salvage ship SS-750. The two have participated in submarine rescue exercises in the Baltic Sea.[2][3]
On 22 September 2022, the AS-26 and its mother ship SS-750 were observed by the Royal Danish Navy patrol boat HDMS Nymfen above the route of the Nord Stream 2 gas pipeline four days before the pipeline was sabotaged.[4][5]