![]() ![]() The submarine class is nearly two football fields in length at 174.9 meters (574 feet), the better to house its 160-man crew while staying submerged for up to 120 days at a time. It ended up as the largest submarine class ever built, tipping the proverbial scales at 48,000 tons worth of displacement. A total of six Typhoons were built between 19, with a seventh specimen planned but eventually canceled. Project 941 was designed as the successor to the Delta-class submarines (Project 667B series consisting of four variants). For additional differentiation, the Typhoon-Class is the older of the two classes, first built in 1976 whilst the “Pike” was first built in 1983. To make matters semantically more confusing – especially for submarine movie buffs – NATO for its part applied “Akula” as a codename for the different Soviet submarine class, the Project 971 Shchuka-B (“Pike”) nuclear hunter-killer submarine (SSN) just for clarification, it’s this latter type of “ Akula ” submarine that duels with the fictitious crew of the USS Alabama (SSBN-731) in the 1995 movie Crimson Tide starring Academy Award winners Gene Hackman and Denzel Washington. The Soviets officially designated this ballistic missile submarine (SSBN) as Project 941 Akula (“Shark”), “Typhoon-Class” is the NATO codename. However, as fact-filled as Tom Clancy’s novels are, they’re still fiction, so now let’s take a deeper dive (yes, bad submarine pun intended) into the real facts and history of this submerged behemoth. Clancy harped upon how difficult it would be to sink this particular make of Russian sub due to its double pressure hulls built of titanium. The Typhoon-class boat also figures prominently in a lesser-known Clancy novel, SSN – co-authored with Martin Greenberg back in 2000 – wherein Mr. again) are bound to be at least somewhat familiar with the massive Soviet-designed “Typhoon”-class killer submarine. The Typhoon-Class, a Short History – Fans of The Hunt for Red October, whether the original bestselling novel by the late great Tom Clancy (R.I.P.) and/or the blockbuster film adaptation starring the late great Oscar winner Sir Sean Connery (R.I.P. ![]()
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