Giant Russian Typhoon Class subs

[Brother D]

https://m.imgur.com/r/WarshipPorn/xi3P3

Absolute nuts. Same displacement as the Bismarck. Even had sauna and 'swimming' pools on them. But seriously the scale is staggering

[Brother D]

Ginetta G15 Girl said:

It was the Alfa class attack sub that had the liquid sodium coolant system.

Says it was lead-cooled reactor - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alfa-class_submarine

I take interest in Nuclear Engineering, but honestly wasn't aware of lead-cooled reactors, I would have assumed what you said.

Now if you will excuse me, I need to waste the rest of the evening researching lead-cooled fast reactors on the internet.

Edited by Brother D on Friday 16th June 21:32

[Brother D]

Junior Bianno said:

texaxile said:

Also, excuse the slightly daft question from a non military person, but were these Typhoon class (and others) very easy to detect by our tech at the time?.

Not when they engaged the caterpillar drive...

I'll bite. Was/is that a real thing?