The Russian Navy’s Typhoon Class is the undisputed king of submarine designs. It is much larger than anything else ever built. For context, the 33,800-ton monster is almost twice as large as the ...

A Cold War story has comes to an end as the largest ever submarine is put out to pasture. According to TASS, the Dmitry Donskoy, the first of the gigantic Typhoon submarines and the last still in ...

Typhoon-Class Submarines: The Soviet Giants Built for Nuclear War “British intelligence obtained these pictures two days ago. She’s the Red October.The latest Typhoon-class,” Jack Ryan ...

A Typhoon class sub is powered by two OK-650 pressurized-water nuclear reactors, each of which provides an excess of 250,000 HP. This allows the subs to reach a top speed of 22 knots on the ...

The nuclear submarine used in The Hunt for Red October is from the Soviet Union's Typhoon-class, also known as the Akula class. Submarines of the class came into service in the 1980s with one, the ...

Russia’s Typhoon-class submarines are the biggest subs ever built. Each u-boat stretched to nearly 600 feet long and was wider than the average American house.

Russia’s Typhoon-class submarines are the biggest subs ever built. Each u-boat stretched to nearly 600 feet long and was wider than the average American house.