Alfa-Class by the Numbers: 40 Knots, a Titanium Hull and a 30-Person Crew: The Soviet Project 705 Lira, known to NATO as the Alfa class, was built around one extreme requirement: speed. Seven ...
"K-162, later renamed K-222, was the Soviet Union’s titanium-hulled cruise missile submarine built to hunt carrier groups ...
While the nuclear-powered attack sub’s reactor appears to be ‘corroded,’ years of collaboration with Russian authorities has avoided a true marine disaster. Reading time 4 minutes The Soviets only ...
In 1989, the Soviet nuclear-powered attack submarine Komsomolets sank to the bottom of the Norwegian Sea, along with its nuclear reactor and two nuclear warheads onboard. Komsomolets was constructed ...
A Soviet submarine that lies at the bottom of the Norwegian Sea is leaking small but non-hazardous amounts of radiation 1. In 1989, the Komsomolets burst into flames and sank, taking with it the ...