The nuclear submarine used in The Hunt for Red October is from the Soviet Union's Typhoon-class, also known as the Akula class. Submarines of the class came into service in the 1980s with one, the ...

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 ...

Massive and oddly innovative, yet at the same time totally antiquated by western standards, the Soviet built ballistic missile nuclear submarine, code named "Typhoon" by NATO, was in many ways a ...

The Hunt for Red October, a 1984 novel, made the submarines famous. Each nuclear-powered submarine carried up to 200 thermonuclear warheads, enough to single-handedly devastate the United States.

Typhoon-Class Submarines: The Soviet Giants Built for Nuclear War “British intelligence obtained these pictures two days ago. She’s the Red October.The latest Typhoon-class,” Jack Ryan ...

As a follow-up to my previous article “What to Expect from Russia’s Pacific Fleet in 2014,” I would like to take a closer look at Russia’s new backbone of its maritime nuclear deterrence ...

A RUSSIAN Cold War submarine is up for sale – but buyers need deep pockets to cover its £1.5 million price tag. The Foxtrot-class submarine, capable of holding 22 torpedoes, was decommissione… ...

But when “The Hunt for Red October” was released 40 years ago this month — plunging readers aboard a Soviet nuclear-missile submarine whose captain was seeking to defect to the United States ...

In Tom Clancy’s book (and, later, the 1990 film) The Hunt For Red October, a Soviet submarine debuts a revolutionary, ultra-quiet engine that uses pumpjets and electrical propulsion technology ...

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 ...