Key Points – Russia’s Typhoon-class (Project 941 Akula) submarines, the largest ever built, were formidable Cold War-era nuclear ballistic missile platforms (SSBNs) designed for strategic ...

The Typhoon’s nuclear reactors allowed the submarine to stay submerged for 120 days or more at a time. When submerged, the Typhoon was tested for depths down to 1,300 feet.

One type of submarine that you may not have considered, though, is the narco submarine. These subs have a connection to ...

The Typhoon-Class, a Short History ... (SSN); just for clarification, it’s this latter type of “Akula” submarine that duels with the fictitious crew of the USS Alabama ...

The U. S. Navy is currently building one type of submarine, the general-purpose Virginia Class. In contrast, Russia is building six, in its greatest modernization since the Cold War.

Russia scraps Typhoon nuclear submarines: timeline of a Cold War Symbol. The Russian navy is planning to scrap its legendary Typhoon-class nuclear submarine by 2014, at least five years early.

Some suggest the Type 032 may be applied to deploying undersea drones. Diesel submarines are about $100-500 million each while nuclear submarines are $2-5 billion each. The French built an 4,750 ton ...

Typhoon class submarine of Russian Navy (Photo Source: people.com.cn) ... Type 094 submarine of Chinese Navy (Photo Source: people.com.cn) L'IndomptableS613 submarine of French Navy ...

The Typhoon's massive tonnage comes from the fact that they were basically two Delta Class submarine hulls mated together and built outward from there. They could carry 20 R-39 SLBMs, each with 10 ...

A Cold War story has comes to an end as the largest ever submarine is put out to pasture. According to TASS, the Dmitry Donskoy, the first of the gigantic Typhoon submarines and the last still in ...

It carried 20 RSM-52 submarine-launched ballistic missiles — the Red October was said to carry six more than the real Typhoon-class subs — and was powered by two pressurized-water nuclear ...

According to Guinness World Records, the smallest submarine ever made is just 4mm, or 0.157 inches long, and was created in 1999 by the German company MicroTEC as a mini medical device.By contrast ...