The boat is experienced and is designed for in-situ conditions, research and testing in the field of propulsion, underwater acoustics and dynamics in operational and emergency modes of movement perspective speed boats, to test the effects of the boundary layer of polymer solutions. An analogue of this ship is the American boat "Albacore", built in 1953
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