World’s Biggest Submarine [with pics]
This is submarine “Typhoon” as it was called in NATO documents or “Shark” as it was called in Russia. It is considered to be the biggest submarine in the world, with over than 170 meters (515 feet) long and 23 meter (70 feet) wide. It can carry 20 ballistic nuclear missiles and there were only six of those built. Only 3 left intact, but are staying now out of service with armament control blocks detached according to the agreement between USSR and USA signed by M. Gorbachev. Without those they are way too peaceful.
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OMG, I am first
OMG why are russian military machines and weapons rusting all the time? This must be the reason why Kursk was sunk to the cold waters of mumansk sea
Ah, Miss Bumhole,
Zero marks - it clearly states that they were taken out of service as part of an arms control agreement.
At least read the commentary prior to making your predictably stupid remarks…
The plane is waiting for us Miss India.We must hurry before your Russian visa expires.
Soon you will see that Russia is much better than your backward poor trash country.
When we return maybe you will think twice about posting lies and stupid comments about russia!
你是个傻逼，miss india
STFU about the kursk, it should be illigal to even comment on what happend with the doomed kursk.
i swear that is miss india’s dick on pic 27
I just bought a Mosin Nagant, made in 1942, there’s no rust on it at all. Why is Indian freedom covered in so much rust all the time?
Miss India - even in that condition, i think that sub looks much better than you. Otherwise you wouldn`t spend so much time here expressing your frustration
You must not know much about submarines. The free flood area of a submarine also known as the super structure is an area that while the sub is submerged is always underwater.
Most subs have a fair amount of rust in the super structure. As a crew member on American submarines I have spent many days in unbearable conditions chipping, grinding, and painting that stuff.
Rust is just part of life in any Navy.
What is the point of having sand bags on the deck of a submarine? I like the ferocious guard on the first picture, though…
It’s kitty litter and it’s on the quay
Its matthew flinders cat, Trim.
the Russian’s stole him along with Harold Holt. You can keep Harold but can Australia have trim back?
It’s not on the deck. That’s the dock.
I have not signed arms control agreements concerning submarines, so I would like to purchase these from Russia and put them back to work patrolling the seas, especially the PERSIAN Gulf, and ensuring peace.
I know this masterpiece of Russian engineering uses advanced technology, so I have intensive training planned for the crews. For example, in order to be aware of the tactics and tricks of the Americans, each crew member gets a copy of the book and movie “Hunt for Red October.” If it works, I plan to make Tom Clancy an honorary Persian and honorary admiral in my navy. Won’t he be excited? He will probably renounce his US citizenship.
Wishing you always able to keep your periscope up,
M. Ahmadinejad
Naval strategist
And were have you been?
I have been worried sick about you?
what of our wedding?
Dearest Angella,
Thank you for worrying about me. I don’t believe anyone has ever cared for me this way, at least not since Miriam, but that was many years–indeed, a lifetime–ago. I am touched.
However, fate and Allah placed a heavy burden upon my shoulders - that of world leader and fighter for justice and the militant Muslim way of life. It’s not easy, and not just any old jihadi can do it. It keeps me very busy, especially when you consider all the things I invent, all the places I go, and all the services I offer.
For example, recently I traveled to North Korea to observe and celebrate the successful launch of Kim Jung Il’s rocket. But, believe me, I was thinking of you all the time, so much so that my own missile stood tall on its launching pad, ready to launch.
Until two days ago I was in Somalia encouraging my Islamic brothers to keep raising money for jihad by hijacking ships in the Indian Ocean and holding them for millions of dollars in ransom. Unfortunately, the Americans arrived and caused some problems, as they do all the time.
Still, even in the midst of watching millions of dollars slip away on the waves of the high seas, I imagined the two of us alone on a raft, rising and falling with the swell of the ocean, toasting our happiness with champagne, eating cheese, and relaxing with the assurance that there were no US Navy SEALs around with their big rifles. What a romantic moment!
So, my dear, although I long to be with you, to visit your lovely home and plow your field and plant my seed, and to live under the safety of an Australian passport, I must ask your forbearance a little longer. The world needs me.
Wishing you comfort in my absence,
M. Ahmadinejad
Unable to avoid my date with destiny
I am so disappointed to hear that you went to north Korea and did not bother to inform me. Now Mahmond I have tried to be patient as I accept you are not an ordinary mortal but rather one ordained by god, and therefore destined for greatness.
But if you had been listening to me you would realise that I have been looking for an exotic pair of ‘foo dogs’ for some time now, for the south east Asian side for our ‘Hanging garden of Persian’, as well as a Chinese pagoda.
I cannot believe your thoughtlessness in dealing with my requests. Do I ask you for diamonds? no, Pearls? no, All I want is some ‘foo dogs’
To make matters worse you encourage Somalia pirates increasing the freight costs on my ‘foo dogs’.
I think it may be time that I take back my Australian passport.
humpf!!!!!
Fail!
But, where are the pictures???
Yup, pics r gone. We too wanna see sub!
Бррр…. Бидон.
OMG why are russian military machines and weapons rusting all the time? This must be the reason why Kursk was sunk
It seems this guy took pictures of two submarines. One is rusting, and to be scrapped, second one is active and in good shape.
Now there were 3 subs “Typhoon”.
“Dmitry Donskoj” is in operation and from it make tests of a new rocket “Bulava” (for new Borey-class submarines).
2 other boats (”Severstal” and “Arkhangelsk” (on a photo)) wait for the decision on their destiny. Them either will scrapped, or will transform into the ships-arsenals (armed in several hundreds cruise missiles) as some the american “Ohio”. But the decision is yet accepted.
On a photo it is visible, sub. “Arkhangelsk” standing in a reserve. It explains not well-groomed condition of a boat.
Sorry -it’s not ‘Arkhangesk’. It is decomissioned TK-12 and TK-13.
So Americans can have nukes on their subs but Russia not allowed? Thats pretty fucked. Nukes for everyone!
Ах, большая подлодка!
Ах, милая кошка!
That swimming pool is great! I love it!
This is great! Always wanted to see how these things look like.
You can visit one at Zeebrugge, Belgium, where an old Russian submarine functions as a tourist attraction.
One more powerful weapon of our military.
That kitty looks like it could mess you up.
This is an impressive set of pictures for submarine enthusiasts like me.
Wow, a swimming pool, a gym, a machine shop, and even a submarine arcade game!
Does anybody knows if the room in the sail tower with the little windows gets inundated when it dives?
Yes, it is flooded
Of course, that submarine will most likely be scrapped (however, the other on the picture will not9. One can’t dive with a hole in your submarine!
This page is almost as interesting as a screen door on a submarine…!!
I want one!
I guess you can buy one of these two rustbuckets for a few Euro’s… They will strip all the weaponsystems and the reactor tho….
It’s a shame to see these once glorious machines die…
I like the instruction on how to use a crapper.
a brilliant piece of disinformation for the yank intel personnel. now they think that russia’s sub-fleet consists of rust-buckets whereas they are totally up-to-date icbm carrying killer-subs, just like the kursk.
remember? putin was having a holiday and didn’t want to come back to even attempt to rescue the sailors.
No one is interested in hearing about idiot BSers liek you, rebelskie. Discover the facts before spamming and trolling.
so kirov, what facts are you suggesting i should be aware of?
and please take care of your spelling will you?
Why cant such machines bee used for science?
cause the science is not in demand now. In Russia at least
Thats not rust, typhoon class submarines are made entirely out of brass, what you see as “rust” is actually a layer of oxidation that is allowed to build up to protect the metal. These subs are made entirely out of brass, even the light bulbs, so a stray spark wont set off the nukes. Let me tell you, a deck monkey tossed a spare cigarette butt on my typhoon class submarine, down the wrong bunghole and it set off all my nukes, one after the other. Man I dont mind telling you it took weeks to clean that up!
Johnny… you have no idea what your are talking about! The Soviets (Russsia today) never made a submarine out of Brass…. but they did make advances from HST (steel) to stronger and lighter Titanium…. able to withstand 1500 feet and deeper depths. Brass is reserved for ship’s bells and clocks.
Take it from me- I sailed in our own Fleet Ballistic missile subs…(which are -by the way, some 560 feet long, compared to the featured Russian Typhoon sub… We carry 24 ballistic missiles, compared to the Russians 20 missiles. There sub is “fat” at some 50 feet of beam, where ours are a little over 40 feet at the beam. Reason? They- the Soviets, placed their missile tubes outside the pressure hull- in ballast tanks, thus the overall beam of the ship includes an awful lot of void space in which the missiles are housed.
I will make one concession- they put a hot tub size swimming pool in their sub….
we had ice cream machines!
Pat
Message for Pattercake:
Ship’s bells are made of bronze, not brass. Brass is softer and used for instruments (Chadburns, clocks, searchlights)
only 1 thing to say about those huge vessels:
Someone def had some serious issues with their penis!
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What a nasty old hog!
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Basically, these boats are ‘mothballed’ and out of service until they are either scrapped or overhauled from stem to stern.
The rust (and more disturbing signs of decay in the gaskets and insulation) is what you get when a machine isn’t cleaned and maintained on a regular schedule: machines exposed to the harsh environment of the sea and damp, warm air need a large crew and constant work to keep ahead of entropy - active service, in other words.
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what the hell are you!?!
how bout you go eat some bacone and light a koran on fire!
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Wow! Great photos! Thanks for sharing!
That cat is returning from the night’s hunt in the sub.
No fish is safe.
These are awesome photos. Being a former submarine sailor myself, I wish I could see one of these ships in person. I served on five submarines and loved the job. Anyone who shares that enjoyment, regardless of country, I gladly call brother! May your surfaces always equal your dives!
This thing looks like what we would have towed out to sea and have a little target practice.
I served on British Valiant class SSNs during the “cold war”, we regularly had “contact” with Soviet subs, “Happy days” (Trigger finger was twitching many a time), I always detected the “Echo 2″ first, noisy old heaps of shite.
“Kildin Island light bears that”!!!
W00t for the arcade game: did they develop it just to boost the crew’s morale even more?
it’s an ordinary arcade game, people who were kids as late as early 90’s still played it. you gotta shoot torpedoes at ships and subs, giving a lead.
WOW. This submarine is one impressive piece of machinery. Look at the size of this thing. Wonder what’d happen to any country if it ever managed to fire off all the missiles it carried. Devastating
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It seems most of the russian stuff is outdated these day.
A new repot confirms that russia has only 6 submarines ready for war any time, now that is quite amazing.
Its obvious that russians had no money at a time but that doesn’t confirms why they were not able to maintain their existing inventory.
It shows one thing that russian machines are actually junk in design, i.e only usable for short time because russians dont know how to convert a scientific principle into a formidable machine
i think subs like this are simply outdated,its obvious that the west isnt going to launch nukes against russia now,and subs cost millions to maintain.these are too big to hide,not hard to detect,so their days are numbered,like any old weapon of war.impressive looking though,shame to waste all that technology on what are now just tourist attractions.
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thanks for sharing..
The Typhoon was a top notch submarine in it’s day and terrified American Military planners. What made it obsolete and helped end the cold war were Blue lasers that could detect submarines thousands of feet down. Not much point in spending billions of dollars on subs that are going to get taken out in a few minutes if hostlities break out.
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WOW An old machinist lathe in a submarine! There’s everything you need on there!
I spent most of my life living on the American version of the typhoon submarine (Ohio Class Submarine). The Typhoon has much nicer crew quarters. I cant believe I actually saw a hot tub in those photos! It was weird looking at the photos because it was all so different but the same to me.
Thank you for sharing the photos. I would love to see some photos of her in her prime. She is most impressive and a tribute to Russian ability and craftsmanship.
vobsem, tol4kom pravilno polzovatsia -samoe sloznoe na etoj submarine :D))
o.O Is that a freaking pool in the sub?!?! I was originally thinking it was the pool for the reactor but that wouldn’t have just a glass enclosure.
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It is unbelievable construction. how many people drive such military machine?
Великолепный корабль. Хотя его состояние только навевает тоску…
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I’m not surprised the Kursk sank tbh. Although probably not as rusty as these in the pictures, it had also suffered severe funding cutbacks in the 90s. Those sailors died because some idiots in Moscow insisted that Russia must maintain an image of military prowess, so they made those guys sail out in a unseaworthy rust bucket that was destined to fail the second it tries to launch something explosive.
Only in Russia do we stop for cats and kittens; that’s why it’s the first photo.
<3.
Very interesting photos. I served on US submarines and then worked for two different outfits that had Russian subs on display. So much of the equipment looks the same from class to class. Paint usage is the same. A lot of use of plywood throughout for living quarters.
This photo: http://englishrussia.com/images/submarine_typhoon/1_055.jpg is posted sideways. Rotate it 90 degrees to the right. It is an escape trunk and the fabric around it is part of a “boot” that drops down into the compartment. Escaping from Russian subs was done at this time by flooding the whole compartment and the ducking out under the boot. I think the “pool” was also part of a radiation decontamination process.
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It’s soooo exciting to look at these monsters of the deep. As a boy I never imagined I would see inside one since the were the pride of the Russian navy at one time. I’m actually kinda bummed to see it not in service, but I can definitely appreciate the immense cost of maintaining one. Thank you for posting!
Those submarines, WERE NOT BUILT to be left RUSTING, in some port in northern Russia or wherever…it`s a pitty……
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The Kursk was sunk by torpedo ‘hot run’, where a faulty torpedo initiates propulsion mode in torpedo room and destroys hull integrity with exhaust gas combustion. The same casualty sunk USS Scorpion. We should honour both crews and hope to avoid similar casualty in future.
Typhoon/Shark is every bit as good as our US Trident missile submarines, these should be maintained as proud symbols of the successful end of the Cold War by both sides.