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Russia’s Typhoon-class Submarine Is Now a Museum
The submarine’s massive size and quiet operation—owing to advanced sound-dampening technologies—made it a formidable ghost in ...
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How 1 Russian Submarine During the Cuban Missile Crisis Nearly Started World War III
Kennedy and Soviet Premier Nikita Khruschev raced ... The blockade created a steel ring around four diesel-electric Foxtrot-class submarines-- the B-4, B-36, B-130, and B-59, each armed with ...
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Russia 'Reactivates' Secret Soviet-Era Submarine Base In Occupied Ukraine
told RFE/RL that if the facility is currently being used by the Russian Navy it would be for ships rather than submarines. "Given size constraints of the Black Sea Fleet's Kilo-class submarines ...
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Oppenheimer feared nuclear annihilation – and only a chance pause by a Soviet submariner kept it from happening in 1962
During the crisis, the Soviet Union had sent four of its Foxtrot-class submarines to the crisis area. Each submarine carried 22 two-ton torpedoes. Unbeknownst to the U.S., one of those 22 ...
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Russian naval shipyard CEO praises Akula-class submarines as unmatched
The Soviet Union built six submarines of this class from 1976 to 1989. Russian presidential press secretary Dmitry Peskov said earlier that Putin met visiting US Special Presidential Envoy Steve ...