They didn't have the caterpillar drive, but a sub of the Typhoon class was outfitted with luxurious amenities for its crew of 160 to enjoy, including a sauna, swimming pool, and a gymnasium.

The model of the Alfa-class V.K. Konovalov submarine, Red October’s nemesis, used in the 1990 movie. ... The doors of the silent ‘caterpillar’ drive are visible on the bow.

Taking a plot point from the 1990 Sean Connery movie thriller The Hunt for Red October, DARPA is working on a super-silent submarine drive that has no moving parts and provides propulsion through ...

That’s a great way to approach something like Star Trek (or, you know, Denzel Washington talking about Star Trek in a submarine in Crimson Tide), but The Hunt for Red October is not Star Trek.

The 1990 film, starring Sean Connery, featured a Soviet submarine - Red October - which had a near-silent propulsion system, making it very difficult to detect.

In The Hunt for Red October, actor Sean Connery plays Capt. Marko Ramius, a Soviet Navy commander who defects to the United States in an MHD-powered submarine. MHD drives have been around for ...

The plot of "Red October" is about Sean Connery's character, Marko Ramius — a Soviet submarine captain — disapproving of the direction the USSR was headed, so he steals the Soviet navy's most ...