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Russia’s Typhoon-Class Submarine: Something the U.S. Navy Can’t Match?

Retired last year after forty years of service, the Soviet/Russian Typhoon-class submarine was a behemoth that still holds the world record for the largest submarine ever built. With a displacement of ...
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Typhoon-class

What You Need to Know: The Russian Navy has decommissioned the Dmitry Donskoy, the last active Typhoon-class submarine and the largest submarine ever built. Initially entering service in 1981 as ...
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Russia’s Typhoon-Class Missile Submarine Was a 48,000-Ton ‘Record Breaker’

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 ...
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Was The Red October A Real Soviet Submarine?

"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 ...