It even was reported that there was a sauna on board as well as a small swimming pool for the crew. Developed with multiple pressure hulls, including five inner hulls situated inside a superstructure of two parallel main hulls, the Typhoon-class was also wider than any other submarine ever built.Įach contained nineteen compartments, including a strengthened module, which housed the main control room as well as an electronic equipment compartment above the main hulls and behind the missile launch tubes. With a displacement of 48,000 tons, a length of 175 meters (nearly 600 feet), a 23-meter beam, and a 12-meter draught, these were the largest submarines ever built. A total of seven of the submarines were planned, while six were completed. It was the size of a World War II aircraft carrier and armed with enough nuclear missiles to kill an entire country in just one strike: Just before Christmas last year, the Russian Navy celebrated the 40th anniversary of the commissioning of the Dmitriy Donskoy (TK-208), the lead boat in the Project 941 Akula (NATO reporting name Typhoon) class of nuclear-powered ballistic missile submarines designed and built for the Soviet Union in the 1980s. The Typhoon was a submarine class built by the then Soviet Navy that was like no other.

Typhoon class submarine beach