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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).
Classe Typhoon; Projet:Maritime/Bistro du port/Mars 2011; Usage on hu.wikipedia.org 941-es tervszámú tengeralattjáró; Usage on id.wikipedia.org Kapal selam; Usage on ja.wikipedia.org タイフーン型原子力潜水艦; Usage on pl.wikipedia.org Okręty podwodne projektu 941; Usage on ru.wikipedia.org
Hull number TK-208 was the lead vessel of the Soviet third generation Project 941 Akula class (NATO reporting name Typhoon) of ballistic missile submarines.She was laid down at the Sevmash shipyard, Tsekh No. 55, in Severodvinsk on 30 June 1976 and launched in September 1980.
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.
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).
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.
Despite being a replacement for many types of SSBNs, Borei-class submarines are much smaller than those of the Typhoon class in both displacement [8] and crew (24 000 tons submerged opposed to 48 000 tons and 107 personnel as opposed to 160 for the Typhoons). In terms of class, they are more accurately a follow-on for the Delta IV-class SSBNs.
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