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Project 661 Anchar, NATO’s Papa class, was a titanium-hulled, twin-reactor missile submarine built at Sevmash to sprint at a US carrier group, fire ten...
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Project 661 Anchar, NATO’s Papa class, was a titanium-hulled, twin-reactor missile submarine built at Sevmash to sprint at a US carrier group, fire ten...
The Soviet Union built nuclear submarines with titanium hulls that could dive deeper and run faster than any American boat, including the fastest submarine...
On paper, the Sierra II was a submarine hunter built to stalk America's most valuable boats in deep water and Arctic conditions, with a...
Cadmium-plated steel tools embrittled titanium on contact, so Lockheed had to build new tools out of titanium for the SR-71 Blackbird. Parts washed in...
The SR-71 aircraft designed to outrun and out-photograph the Soviet Union had a problem: it had to be made of titanium, and the Soviets...
The Akula-class attack submarine was the Soviet Union’s steel answer to the Los Angeles class. About 15 boats were finished before the money ran...
Forty-seven days after the Soviet Union dissolved, USS Baton Rouge and the Russian attack submarine K-276 collided near the Northern Fleet’s main bases. Neither...
K-222 reached 44.7 knots submerged, roughly 51 miles per hour, from two reactors and 80,000 shaft horsepower. No crewed submarine has publicly surpassed it....
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...