Key Point and Summary: The Typhoon-class submarines were the largest ever built, designed to rival America’s Ohio-class SSBNs during the Cold War. -These 48,000-ton giants carried 20 massive RSM ...

The Typhoon-class boat also figures prominently in a lesser-known Clancy novel, SSN – co-authored with Martin Greenberg back in 2000 – wherein Mr. Clancy harped upon how difficult it would be ...

With a displacement of 48,000 tons, a length of 175 meters (nearly 600 feet), a 23-meter beam, and a 12-meter draught, the Typhoon-class was the largest class of submarines ever built.Developed ...

Russia scraps Typhoon nuclear submarines: timeline of a Cold War Symbol. The Russian navy is planning to scrap its legendary Typhoon-class nuclear submarine by 2014, at least five years early.