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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.
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
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