Russia: Northern Fleet gets first Yasen-M class submarine

Kazan is the first of eight modern nuclear-powered cruise missile submarines to be delivered from the shipyard in Severodvinsk. After years of delay, the submarine will be handed over to the Navy on May 7th. Official flag raising ceremony takes place at the Sevmash yard in Severodvinsk where Commander-in-Chief of the Russian Navy, Admiral Nikolai Evmenov, will attend. The acceptance papers, transferring the vessel from the yard to the Navy, were signed on Tuesday this week, the information Department of the Navy said in a statement. Since first scheduled for delivery to the navy in 2017, the submarine has been…