Typhoon Class submarines, also known as "Acula" in Russia, represent the pinnacle of submarine engineering, holding the record as the largest submarines ever built. Created during the Cold War, these ...

What You Need to Know: The Russian Navy has decommissioned the Dmitry Donskoy, the last active Typhoon-class submarine and the largest submarine ever built. Initially entering service in 1981 as ...

The USSR’s Fearsome Akula-class Subs. The TK-208 was laid down on June 30, 1976, at the legendary Soviet Sevmash shipyard in Severodvinsk.This facility, by the way, was renowned for constructing ...

It carried 20 RSM-52 submarine-launched ballistic missiles — the Red October was said to carry six more than the real Typhoon-class subs — and was powered by two pressurized-water nuclear ...