Worlds biggest submarine

[bitchstewie]

No doubt this has been posted at some point but having just stumbled on it via another site.

https://imgur.com/a/xi3P3

The size of that

[FourWheelDrift]

Once more, we play our dangerous game, a game of chess against our old adversary – The American Navy. For forty years, your fathers before you and your older brothers played this game and played it well. But today the game is different. We have the advantage.

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FourWheelDrift said:

Wansh more, we play our dangerush game, a game of chesh againsht our old advershary – The American Navy. For forty yearsh, your fathers before you and your older brothersh played thish game and played it well. But today the game ish different. We have the advantage.

FTFY

[Turn7]

Countdown said:

FourWheelDrift said:

Wansh more, we play our dangerush game, a game of chesh againsht our old advershary – The American Navy. For forty yearsh, your fathers before you and your older brothersh played thish game and played it well. But today the game ish different. We have the advantage.

FTFY

[Shuvi McTupya]

What amazing machines! Bugger spending months at sea in one though..

[andymadmak]

Countdown said:

FourWheelDrift said:

Wansh more, we play our dangerush game, a game of chesh againsht our old advershary – The American Navy. For forty yearsh, your fathers before you and your older brothersh played thish game and played it well. But today the game ish different. We have the advantage.

FTFY

One ping only Vashily

[anonymous-user]

Just 2 left.

TK-17 Arkhangelsk
ustye Nikolskoye, Severodvinsk, Arkhangelskaya oblast', Russia, 164512
https://goo.gl/maps/7y7MCtqa1p9SDMzz8

[seawise]

if there are two left neither is currently at sea - latest AIS Sat picture shows both boats tied up together on the quay in Severodvinsk - big buggers, probably quite straightforward for a lurking LA class to track if they are seaworthy and sail.

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seawise said:

if there are two left neither is currently at sea - latest AIS Sat picture shows both boats tied up together on the quay in Severodvinsk - big buggers, probably quite straightforward for a lurking LA class to track if they are seaworthy and sail.

I think USSR naval doctrine was to keep them in the Barents Sea behind loads of ASW pickets rather than sailing around idnependently.

[Zirconia]

Thought they had a new one that is scarier. In that it is very silent.

[anonymous-user]

I thought this bit in the original article was interesting,

“ Some designers expressed concern about the large "physical fields" produced by such a large submarine, meaning magnetic signature (partially alleviated by the use of titanium) and hydrodynamic signature, a disturbance in the water which the Soviet could detect from space at the end of the Cold War (that's a topic for another time).”

[Zetec-S]

Zirconia said:

Thought they had a new one that is scarier. In that it is very silent.

Borei class?

[Zirconia]

Zetec-S said:

Zirconia said:

Thought they had a new one that is scarier. In that it is very silent.

Borei class?

Aye, that were it. Not that much smaller.

Wonder if the latter has the formers sauna and swimming pool?

[Buzz84]

According to that page, and also stated on wikipedia. there are 2 that have been decomissioned but not scrapped, and only one in active service.the rest were scrapped.

facinating page with lot of great photos

[McGee_22]

bhstewie said:

No doubt this has been posted at some point but having just stumbled on it via another site.

https://imgur.com/a/xi3P3

The size of that

Thanks for that - I spent the thick end of eight years on UK nuclear boats back in the 1990's and the Typhoons (and that Alfa) were spoken of as quite the adversary. Lots of photographs and knowledge on that sight that was not known at the time but shows the massive imagination and ability of the Soviet ship builders.