Huginn-class-submarine

The Huginn class, internally designated by the Kaldrbuth Royal Navy and the Kaldrbuth Military research and development centre (commonly written and spoken as 'M-RAD') as Projects 717, 717/A and Project 717/B are a series of nuclear-powered ballistic missile submarines being constructed primarily by KDN Marine at the Kaldrbuth NORTH military shipyards, west of Akkeribygð. The Huginn class mark the nations first ever nuclear powered submarine type, and only the third submarine type since the 1940's, as well as only the second ever class of submarines to be built in-house.

History

The current Huginn design is believed to have originated in the early 1980's. stemming from the collapse of what was at the time, a drive to create a second navy started in early May 1952. The cancelation of this program led to almost three decades worth of funding remaining unspent, and instead being returned to the admiralty treasury where it would lay until around 1983 when construction began on project 717, designated Hull 0, the experimental and then un-named prototype that would spend the rest of it's life in underground bay testing, remaining hidden until 'Project 717/A' was officially announced on the 23rd of December 1991, once more a single early prototype (EV-0, Often referred to as Evo or Project Isa) was built, this time conducting pier-side testing of structural and early electrical systems.

The first of the officially named Huginn class vessels taking the classes name as its own as is tradition, HMNV Huginn (Pennant H01) began construction in 1996, conducted pier side and sea trials from around September 2000 to 2004~ before being commissioned and sworn into the Kaldrbuth navy as the first of a new class of submarine, becoming (until 2017) the flagship of the subsurface fleet, it should be noted however that as with all (as of 2020) eight other vessels of the class, it is openly suspected that they often, if not always used in active operation before being officially commissioned.