Russia's Sevmash shipyard will shortly resume work on converting the multi role Project 949AM nuclear submarine Belgorod for a "series of special missions," the country's Navy Chief Admiral Vladimir Vysotsky said on Thursday.
Conversion work has been suspended since the sinking of its sister ship, the Kursk, a cruise missile armed boat, in the freezing Barents Sea after an explosion killing all the 118 sailors and officers on board 12 years ago.
"Belgorod will be completed as a special project. The boat will have many special tasks ahead of it," Vysotsky was quoted by Russian media as saying.
The Russian Navy has several submarines for what it terms "special missions," but information about them remains classified.
The Project 949M class has a displacement of 23,860 tons, a length of 150 meters, speed of 33 knots and crew of 118.
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