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The Soviet Bloc Ministry of Defense has decommissioned five Kasatanov-class SSBN/SSGNs (REFIT) from active duty ARSB Navy duty. The five submarines will be cleaned, their nuclear cores reloaded, and their systems remanufactured to new standards. Upon finishing the process, the five submarines will sail to Ottoman Khaif under escort by the ARSB 4th Expeditionary Fleet. Upon arrival, they will be stripped of all Soviet Bloc designations and markings and will officially be transferred to the Ottoman Khaif Navy.


Dat' Pizdy Naval Construction Yards will begin work on constructing twenty new Kasatanov-classes which will be solely built for Ottoman Khaif. The twenty vessels will likely take between ten and fifteen years to build. Upon finishing, the vessels (as they come off the 'line') will sail for Ottoman Khaif with Ottoman Khaif personnel and with Ottoman Khaif markings. Soviet Bloc assets or Ottoman Khaif assets will escort the submarines to their new home as they are produced.

All submarines transferred to Ottoman Khaif will come with the Integral Conversion System, which allows the ballistic missile systems aboard to be converted to VLS tubes, although each sub has thirty ballistic missile tubes (can be converted to 210 VLS tubes by pulling out the section and replacing it with the 'Integral Vertical Launch Missile System') and forty-eight VLS tubes as standard. The submarine also sports four 21" torpedo tubes as well as a vast array of advanced sensor technology.


Kasatanov-class SSBN/SSGN (REFIT) General Schematic:

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The nation of Ottoman Khaif paid $78.6 billion USD for the twenty five Kasatanov-class SSBN/SSGN (REFIT) submarines [at 2.5 Billion USD per used submarine and 3.2 billion USD per new submarine].

“Ottoman Navy is please to have these sub to added to the Fleets, May they serve the fleet well.”
An Official reply from the Ottoman Navy from Subhead of Navy- Fleet Admiral Hassan Pasha III (http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v504/Ottoman01/diwan4.jpg)

Also, Dat' Pizdy Naval Construction Yards will be building twenty all-new Torrent-class arsenal ships to be transferred to the Ottoman Khaif navy. The twenty vessels will be built and shipped from Yavnovsk Yards located on the Ukrainian Peninsula. Using market estimates and construction times, the twenty vessels should be built and ready to sail within twenty years.

Each Torrent-class, displacing nearly 100,000 tons, and roughly eleven hundred feet long, is packed with 1300 VLS tubes, eighteen CIWS, surface to air missile launching systems, and a small VTOL aircraft or helicopter landing pad. An interesting note about the vessels is that they can submerge to a depth of up to 200 feet, allowing them to avoid potential counterstrikes. She can move underwater but at incredibly slow speeds (8-10 knots). However, she cannot fire underwater unless the purchasing nation replaces some or all of the VLS tubes with a modified variant that can fire underwater (much like an SSGN).

To best describe the Torrent's mission, is a quote directly from its makers, Dat' Pizdy Naval Construction Yards:

"Some military analysts say that the arsenal ship is the path naval warfare is taking: impersonal strikes from tens if not hundreds of miles away, en masse with missiles. The arsenal ship is a behemoth of a ship, hauling hundreds of surface to surface, surface to air, and anti-shipping missiles in her expansive interior. She carries a capability no other ship has... The capability to bring a nation to its knees within minutes. The Torrent-class arsenal ship can accomplish that quite proficiently, being able to lob well over a thousand missiles at a target(s) within mere moments. A thousand cruise missiles or surface-to-surface missiles will do plenty of damage to an opponent, as would a debilitating strike on an enemy fleet, courtesy of the anti-shipping missiles this ship can hold. The Torrent-class holds true to her name, having the ability to release the unstoppable torrents of missiles that will strike fear into any nation's leadership."


http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v63/Chlevenkov/Torrent-class.jpg


At four and a half billion USD per ship, the Ottoman Khaif order costs $90 Billion USD for twenty Torrent-class arsenal ships.