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20 × RSM-52 SLBMs. 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 ...
List of sunken nuclear submarines. Nine nuclear submarines have sunk, either by accident or scuttling. The Soviet Navy lost five (one of which sank twice), the Russian Navy two, and the United States Navy (USN) two. Three submarines were lost with all hands – the two from the United States Navy (129 and 99 lives lost) and one from the Russian ...
K-329 Belgorod (Russian: БС-329 «Белгород») is a modified design of the Oscar II class (NATO designation) Russian nuclear submarine. It was laid down in July 1992 as a Project 949A cruise missile submarine, NATO designation Oscar II class. It was redesigned and the partly built hull was reconfigured as a special operations vessel ...
Experimental submarines which had a Walter engine fuelled by high test peroxide (HTP) 633: Romeo class 20 Medium submarines 641: Foxtrot class 75 Large oceanic submarines 641B Cом (Som, catfish) Tango class 18 Large oceanic submarines 690 Кефаль (Kefal, mullet) Bravo class 4 Target submarine for torpedo exercises
With tensions at their highest level since the 1962 Cuban missile crisis, Russia - which has the world's largest nuclear arsenal - is moving quickly to revoke its ratification of a nuclear test ...
WASHINGTON — Twenty-two years ago, a Russian nuclear submarine sank after being rocked by two explosions during a torpedo test launch gone awry. There were 118 sailors on board the Kursk; most ...
Yasen-class submarine. The Yasen class, Russian designations Project 885 Yasen and Project 885M Yasen-M (Russian: Ясень, lit. ' ash tree ', NATO reporting name: Severodvinsk), also referred to as the Graney class, are a series of nuclear-powered cruise missile submarines designed by the Malakhit Marine Engineering Bureau and built by ...
Russia and the U.S. have the land- and submarine-based segments of their strategic nuclear forces on alert and prepared for combat at all times, but nuclear-capable bombers and other aircraft are not.