Kondor-class Covert Mothership (Project 941K)

Submersible Helicopter Carrier & Insertion Platform.
A repurposed Typhoon-class turned covert incursion platform becomes a long-range, stealthy mothership for cross-water operations. Its flight deck hidden under reinforced hull plating and advanced acoustic coverings when submerged and when surfacing, splits open with a clamshell to allow rapid launch and recovery of up to four Ka-27 helicopters, enabling discreet troop insertion, reconnaissance, or ASW support close to hostile shores. While surfaced the deck functions like a small carrier; while submerged the acoustic treatments and low-profile opening reduce detectability, letting the submarine approach contested littoral zones with minimal signature.

Beneath the flight deck a compact hangar is divided into two mission-specific chambers: a pressurized bay that can be kept dry while the boat is submerged for servicing aircraft or staging personnel, and an adjacent flooded bay used both as ballast and as a rapid-launch well for inflatable craft, unmanned vehicles, or swimmable assault teams. Offensive punch is retained in the form of two staggered banks of Kalibr launchers, eight per side that open through the upper hull in a top-facing fashion reminiscent of Oscar-class mechanisms, giving the vessel both clandestine insertion and stand-off strike options. Together these features make the conversion a flexible platform for surprise amphibious operations, covert logistical sustainment, and precision strikes from under the waves.

First photograph of the rumoured Kondor-class