Born to match America’s Ohio-class, the Project 941 Typhoon-class was the USSR’s ultimate second-strike machine: a double-hull giant with two reactors, under-ice tactics, and 20 R-39 missiles carrying ...

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 ...

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 ...

The TK-208 was laid down on June 30, 1976, at the legendary Soviet Sevmash shipyard in Severodvinsk. This facility, by the way, was renowned for constructing some of the Soviet Union’s most iconic and ...