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TYPHOON CLASS SUBMARINE MODEL

This page is for a remote control model. For a static Typhoon submarine model, please click here: premium Typhoon model.

typhoon wood model

The largest submarines ever built were not built in American shipyards, but Soviet ones. These Cold War leviathans could devastate up to two hundred targets with warheads six times as powerful as those that exploded over Hiroshima. The Typhoon-class were some of the most terrifying weapons ever created.

The Soviets call them Akula (“Shark”) class, or Project 941 as it was known during development, was designed as the Soviet Union had gotten wind of the U.S. Navy’s impending Ohio-class fleet ballistic-missile submarines. The Typhoons were designed to launch their missiles from relatively close to the Soviet Union, allowing them to operate north of the Arctic Circle, where Soviet air and naval forces could protect them. As a result the submarines were designed with a reinforced hull that was capable of breaking through polar ice, a large reserve buoyancy to help it surface through ice and a pair of shielded propellers to protect them from collisions with ice.

To strike the the United States from arctic bastions, a new nuclear-tipped missile with a long enough range was developed. The R-39 Rif (NATO code name: SS-NX-20 “Sturgeon”) was a huge three stage ballistic missile that is fifty three feet long and weighing eighty-four tons. It could strike any point in the continental United States.

A single R-39 packed ten one-hundred-kiloton warheads, each independently targetable so that a single missile could strike ten different targets within reasonably close range of one another. This drove up the size and weight of the missile, but it also meant that each Akula had a grand total of two hundred warheads—eight more than the Ohio class. The Rif missiles were built in two rows of ten missile silos each. Unlike other missile submarines, the silo field was in front of the sail, giving the Akula class its unconventional appearance.

The R-39 Rif is more than twice as heavy as the UGM-96 Trident I; it remains the heaviest SLBM to have been in service worldwide.

The Akula class was 574 feet long, just four feet longer their American equivalents. While the Ohio boats had a beam of forty-two feet, the Akulas were a staggering seventy-four feet wide—necessary to pack both missiles and such a large reserve buoyancy into her bulk. The result was a submarine that, at forty-eight thousand tons, was more than twice the submerged displacement of the American submarine.

With a submerged displacement of 48,000 tones, the Typhoons are the largest submarines ever built. They able to accommodate comfortable living facilities for the crew of 160 when submerged for months.

A Typhoon submarine is powered by two nuclear reactors, two 50,000hp steam turbines and four 3,200KW turbo generators. With nearly one hundred thousand shaft horsepower, it can sail at a astonished speeds of 22.2kt on the surface and 27kt submerged.

A total of six Akula subs were built. Today only one is still in service.

typhoon submarine model

This scratch-built model is primarily of fiberglass and metal.  Very strong, very robust for your entertainment. 

This Typhoon's diving system is especially designed by ModelShipMaster.com for joyful operating. It is far superior to the current conventional system.

The model is also equipped with a mud filter so that you can play in lakes. A filter will clean the system automatically.  

With two independent propellers, this Typhoon model will be able to turn in a small pool.  

If you dive the sub a little too deep and control signal is lost, the included failsafe system will command the pump to pump out water and the sub will surface.

Dimensions: 46" long (1/150 scale)  A high-end, muti-channel radio is included. Email us for price: Services@ModelShipMaster.com

Learn more about the Typhoon submarine here: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Typhoon-class_submarine