Russia’s Project 941 Typhoon-class SSBNs were purpose-built for nuclear war under Arctic ice: dual parallel pressure hulls for survivability, 20 R-39 (RSM-52) SLBMs with up to ten MIRVs each, and the ...
The Soviet Union's Typhoon-class was the largest submarine ever built, a 48,000-ton nuclear-powered behemoth made famous by "The Hunt for Red October." Designed to operate under Arctic ice, it carried ...
"The Hunt For Red October" is a Tom Clancy novel adapted into a 1990 movie starring Alec Baldwin and Sean Connery. It's about a Soviet ballistic-missile submarine that could run silently through the ...