Typhoon

This is a fascinating look inside a Soviet Typhoon-class submarine. I don’t know whether the evident condition of this tub is because it’s mothballed, or just because that’s how Russians do things (some of the pictures indicate clearly-active equipment, odd).

If this is normal, then I have a greater respect for the skill (or stupidity) of Russian sailors who serve on these. It’s a strange place to find an indoor swimming pool, a ridiculous luxury on a sub, but the head looks even worse than that typically found in the back of an off-brand gas station.

This is the site (it’s in Russian). I’d love to be able to poke around on one of these with no time limit and a good camera — and a good jacket.

Using Google Translate, here is the text at the top of the gallery:

Project 941 on the domestic classification: SHARK, according to NAT Typhoon / This is the III generation SSBN. The ship has 2 robust hulls arranged in parallel and several sturdy modules connected by a single outer hull. It carries 20 solid propellant BRs located between sturdy hulls. In strong modules outside the PC, there is torpedo armament on the bow of the boat and also the CPU and REV equipment. Thanks to this layout, this ship received the largest of all domestic and imported submarines underwater and surface displacement and hull width. Surface: 23,200 tons, underwater: 48,000 tons. Length: 172 m, width: 23.3 m, draft: 11 m. Crew 160 people. Currently, out of 6 ships released in the ranks, only 3 and they are in some kind of tricky reserve. They are laid up and they, by agreement of the MS of Gorbachev and the Americans, torn out the equipment of the BR management. Everything else is in place, but without these cabinets they are very peaceful :-))) I managed to visit one of these submarines and take photographs. It was in 2004.

These are the subs we really needed to know the location of, folks. Any one of them could have blown up most countries a couple times over.

If the missiles worked, that is.