![]() Original Project 877 boats are equipped with Rubikon MGK-400 sonar system (with NATO reporting name Shark Gill), which includes a mine detection and avoidance sonar MG-519 Arfa (with NATO reporting name Mouse Roar). The Project 877 attack submarines were mainly intended for anti-shipping and anti-submarine operations in relatively shallow waters. The class was updated again by the Rubin Design Bureau in the mid-2010s and called the Project 636.3. Production was switched to the more advanced Project 636 Varshavyanka ( Russian: Варшавянка, meaning " Varsovian (inhabitant of Warsaw feminine)") variant in the mid-1990s, also known as Improved Kilo class in the West. The initial version of Kilo submarines entered operational service in 1980 and were built until the mid-1990s. The Kilo class, Soviet designation Project 877 Paltus ( Russian: Па́лтус, meaning " halibut"), NATO reporting name Kilo, is a class of diesel-electric attack submarines originally designed in the 1970s and built in the Soviet Union for the Soviet Navy. Russian Project 877 in the English Channel in 2018 A Russian Kilo-class diesel-powered attack submarine underway on the surface
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