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The Typhoon class, Soviet designation Project 941 Akula (Russian: Акула, meaning "shark", NATO reporting name Typhoon), was a class of nuclear-powered ballistic missile submarines designed and built by the Soviet Union for the Soviet Navy. With a submerged displacement of 48 000 tonnes, [4] the Typhoons were the largest submarines ever ...
Class overview; Operators Russian Navy General characteristics; Class and type: Typhoon-class submarine: Length: 175 m (574 ft 2 in) Beam: 23 m (75 ft 6 in) Draft: 12 m (39 ft 4 in)
Indian Navy: 8 Kilo, 1 decommissioned, 1 transferred to Myanmar Navy, known as the Sindhughosh class. People's Liberation Army Navy: 2 Kilo and 10 Improved Kilo in service. Russian Navy: 11-12 original Kilo (877) in service, 10 Improved Kilo (636.3) in service, 3 Improved Kilo building/ordered. Algerian National Navy: 2 Original Kilo and 4 ...
Russia’s Typhoon-class submarines are the biggest subs ever built. Each u-boat stretched to nearly 600 feet long and was wider than the average American house.
A Project 941 (Typhoon-class) nuclear ballistic missile submarine. The Soviet large nuclear ballistic missile submarine was the Project 941 Akula, more famously known as the Typhoon class (and not to be confused with the Project 971 Shchuka attack submarine, called "Akula" by NATO).
In 2000, work on the submarine was intensified. In June 2002, now serving in the Russian Navy, TK-208 finally left the Severodvinsk dry dock. After 12 years of overhaul and modifications, she had now received the name Dmitriy Donskoy, named after the Grand Duke of Moscow Dmitry Donskoy (1359–1389), the reputed founder of Moscow.
Stickleback class (midget submarines) Porpoise class (Diesel-electric hunter-killer) Oberon class (Diesel-electric hunter-killer) HMS Dreadnought (S101) Valiant class attack submarines. Resolution class ballistic missile submarines. Churchill class attack submarines. Swiftsure class attack submarines.
Typhoon-class submarines feature multiple pressure hulls that simplify internal design [clarification needed] while making the vessel much wider than a normal submarine. In the main body of the sub, two long pressure hulls lie parallel side by side, with a third, shorter pressure hull above and partially between them (which protrudes just below ...