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— Captain Bill Cozzone (Godzilla: The Official Movie Novelization)[3] |
The K-550 Alexander Nevsky (Александр Невский, Aleksandr Nevskij) is the second of the fourth-generation, Borei-class nuclear ballistic missile submarines of the Russian Navy, having entered service in 2013. It appears in Godzilla: The Official Movie Novelization, the novelization of Legendary Pictures' 2014 film Godzilla, filling in for the role that an unnamed Akula-class sub does in the film.
Name
The Alexander Nevsky is named after the Russian saint of the same name.
Appearance
- Main article: Wikipedia:Borei-class submarine.
History
Godzilla: The Official Movie Novelization
In 2014, the K-550 Alexander Nevsky was out west in the north Pacific Ocean around the time that the male MUTO had escaped the Monarch containment facility in Janjira, Japan. At a certain point, the United States Navy lost all communications with the Russian ship due to it being attacked by the young Titan. By the time Admiral William Stenz relayed the matter to Monarch's Doctor Ishiro Serizawa and Doctor Vivienne Graham, the navy unit, "the Green Berets", were already on the ground in Oahu tracking the nuclear submarine down. Under the lead of Captain Bill Cozzone, the Green Berets were deep into the jungle northwest of Diamond Head where they were picking up the distress signal of the Alexander Nevsky, miles away from Honolulu's Waikīkī and guided solely by a Geiger counter held by captain Cozzone. As the device's clicking sped up as their proximity increased, captain Cozzone halted his troops and the soldiers saw with their night vision googles a bizarre sight: The Alexander Nevsky perched upside down, uplifted by the trees above, encrusted with a hardening resinous secretion that dripped down, the nose of the ship buried into the earth. Cozzone surmised that none of the crew members would have survived the sub's drop onto the jungle vegetation and and began to radio his team's discovery to the USS Saratoga. Suddenly, the canopy overhead stirred as Cozzone looked up to see the male MUTO crouched down over the Alexander Nevsky and secreting a thick orange ooze from his underside. The Titan had torn open the hull and treated himself to the plutonium core inside the vessel's nuclear reactor, swallowing the red-hot fuel rods whole.
When the MUTO was finished with the radioactive components of the Alexander Nevsky, he took off on-foot for Waikīkī and left the submarine to crash down to the ground like a falling redwood. Captain Cozzone and his men barely managed to evade being crushed under the ship or the surrounding vegetation.
Capabilities
OK-650 reactor propulsion
The Alexander Nevsky is powered by a single OK-650 reactor (Either OK-650B or OK-650V), which can generate 190 megawatts of power from 21-45% enriched uranium.[4] In Godzilla: The Official Movie Novelization, the heart of the Alexander Nevsky's nuclear reactor was a plutonium core to be precise.[5]
Speed
The Alexander Nevsky can reach speeds of up to 28 knots, converting to about 52 km/h or 32mph.[1]
Armament
The Alexander Nevsky is armed with 16 Bulava SLBMs and six RPK-2 Viyuga cruise missiles (21-in/533-mm torpedo tubes).[1]
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References
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