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Besides their missile armament, the Typhoon class featured six torpedo tubes designed to handle RPK-2 (SS-N-15) missiles or Type 53 torpedoes. A Typhoon-class submarine could stay submerged for 120 days [4] in normal conditions, and potentially more if deemed necessary (e.g., in the case of a nuclear war).
In August 2009, Patriarch Kirill visited the submarine and met the crewmen. [2] On 9 December 2009, Dmitriy Donskoi launched a Bulava missile. The third stage of the missile failed, and it was visible in Norway making a glowing spiral in the sky. [3] On 7 October 2010, the submarine launched another Bulava ballistic missile from the White Sea.
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.
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 ...
Typhoon-class submarine TK-202 covered with ice. Probably the best-known fictional Typhoon-class submarine is the stealth-equipped Red October (Красный Oктябрь), the subject of the Tom Clancy novel The Hunt for Red October and its 1990 movie adaptation, starring Sean Connery as the fictional Captain Marko Ramius.
All submarines before K-391 Bratsk have reactor coolant scoops that are similar to the ones of the Typhoon class SSBNs, long and tubular. Bratsk and subsequent submarines have reactor coolant scoops similar to the short ones on the Oscar IIs (the Typhoon, Akula and Oscar classes use the similar OK-650 reactor).
Pages in category "Typhoon-class submarines" The following 4 pages are in this category, out of 4 total. ... Russian submarine Dmitriy Donskoi; T. Soviet submarine TK-202
ТК-202 was a ballistic missile submarine of the Russian Navy, formerly having served in the Soviet Navy. Hull number TК-202 was laid down at the Sevmash shipyards in Severodvinsk in October 1980 and launched in April 1982. She was the second ship of the Soviet Project 941 Akula class (Russian for shark, NATO reporting name Typhoon).