The seventh was not completed for financial and political reasons – both related to the collapse of the Soviet empire. Five more submarines of this class were built. The submarine was launched on September 29, 1980, and entered service on December 29, 1981. The keel of TK-208 was laid on July 17, 1976.
The TK-208 measured 170.0×23.3 meters and displaced 48,000 tons submerged, more than most WWII battleships! This arrangement made them the largest submarines ever built. The whole construction is surrounded by a hydrodynamic outer hull. A set of 20 missile launchers was deployed between the main hulls – without penetrating them. Typhoon-class structure consisted of two parallel main pressure hulls and separate modules arranged above them: command, torpedo and stern. They were caused mainly by their unmatched size, which became the reason for an entry in the “Guinness Book of Records”, as well as by the external shape that gave rise to conjecture about the construction of the interior – long remaining a mystery. SSBNs of the project 941 have gathered a lot of interest since their inception. The design of the vessel was developed by the “Rubin” Design Bureau in Leningrad under the leadership of Sergey N.
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The TK-208 SSBN (official Russian designation: nuclear heavy submarine cruiser of strategic-purpose) was the prototype of a series of six units of the project 941 Akula (shark). The end of an era Typhoon class SSBN missile tubes.
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