The nuclear installation was equipped with the system of battery-free cooling, and the reactor control rods would go down automatically in case of emergency even if the submarine flips. Typhoons were also designed to launch missiles from the Arctic being capable of surfacing from underneath 2 to 2.5 meters thick ice to shoot out its arsenal.Įach Typhoon had two PWR reactors with 100,000 h.p., located in the starboard and portside hulls. Such solution led to increased displacement of the submarine Typhoon class has 49,800 tonnes displacement submerged and was nicknamed a “water-carrier” but it also led to increased safety and better possibilities to perform repairs and upgrade due to a high degree of modulation of various parts of machinery. The oblate form of the submarine was prompted by the shallow waters in the area of Severodvinsk shipyards. The submarine was to integrate two independent hulls a kind of catamaran. The USSR engineered solid fuel missiles, but they grew in size what influenced the design of Typhoon class. The design work of Typhoons started in 1973 and was an answer to American Trident submarines which could carry 24 new solid fuel intercontinental missiles. This 172 meters long submarine is capable of carrying 20 ballistic missiles each armed with 10 nuclear warheads. The Soviet Union has built six Typhoons world’s biggest submarines included into the Guinness Book of World Records and promoted in Hollywood’s Hunt for the Red October. The whole process is funded by the US Cooperative Threat Reduction program, or Nunn-Lugar program. The submarine will be scrapped shortly after that. Severodvinsk shipyard Sevmash has started defueling a Typhoon class submarine.
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