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Both navies are rushing to add more and better missiles to their attack submarines. The Russian Navy is massively arming up its fleet of attack submarines through a weapons modernization effort intended to add as many as forty-eight new undersea-launched cruise missiles.  The move, according to Russian’s TASS news agency, seekers to grow the strike capabilities of its nuclear-powered Irkutsk submarine two-fold through an upgrade program called Project 949AM.  “Currently, the nuclear-powered submarine Irkutsk is undergoing repairs and upgrades at the Far Eastern Zvezda ship repair plant....

TASS has no official confirmation of this information yet. Currently, the nuclear-powered submarine Irkutsk is undergoing repairs and upgrade at the Far Eastern Zvezda ship repair plant. A source earlier told TASS that the sub’s strike capabilities would grow at least two-fold after its upgrade and it would be capable of carrying 48 new Kalibr-PL, Oniks and Tsirkon missiles. According to the data of open sources, five Project 949A submarines are currently operational in the Northern and Pacific Fleets and one sub is under repairs. They carry 24 P-700 Granit anti-ship missiles as their basic...