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Sean Spoonts, a former Navy anti-submarine warfare operator, traces the Soviet Alfa-class (Project 705 Lira) from World War II submarines that sank 55 percent...
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Sean Spoonts, a former Navy anti-submarine warfare operator, traces the Soviet Alfa-class (Project 705 Lira) from World War II submarines that sank 55 percent...
Project 705 was built from a titanium alloy that cannot be welded in open air, so the Soviets constructed a sealed hall filled with...
The Soviet Union built nuclear submarines with titanium hulls that could dive deeper and run faster than any American boat, including the fastest submarine...
The Soviet Alfa-class submarine was built from exotic titanium and could hit 40 knots. There was just one problem: they were really loud in...
Cold War U.S. Navy analysts, watching the Soviets build something extraordinary at the Sudomekh shipyard in Leningrad through the 1960s and 1970s, reached a...
Article Summary – The Soviet Alfa-class was a radical answer to a Cold War problem: sprint through NATO’s GIUK chokepoint, hunt U.S. carriers, and...