Portions of a Russian Oscar Class Ballistic submarine are sheared down to smaller pieces by a Labounty Shears. The shears are set up on a Caterpillar tractor that was provided to the shipyard under the Nunn-Lugar / Cooperative Threat Reduction Program. Following the shearing process, the metal will be moved to a second sight where it will be compacted using a Mantus crane and a Harris boiler, also provide under the Nunn-Lugar / Cooperative Threat Reduction Program
Summary
The original finding aid described this photograph as:
Base: Severodvinsk
Country: Russia (RUS)
Scene Camera Operator: PH1 Todd Cichonowicz, USN
Release Status: Released to Public
Combined Military Service Digital Photographic Files
Tags
Date
29/05/1996
Source
The U.S. National Archives
Copyright info
No known copyright restrictions