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 ...

Summary and Key Points: The Soviet Typhoon-class submarines, made famous by the novel and film The Hunt for Red October, were the largest and most fearsome submarines ever built. -These massive ...

The Typhoon-class subs were designed to counter the United States Navy’s Ohio-class subs, which were capable of carrying up to 192 100-kiloton nuclear warheads. By contrast, ...