Clancy envisioned a modified Akula-class submarine, Red October, whose disillusioned captain and crew were attempting to defect to the United States. Thirty-two years after publication ...

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 ...

Clancy envisioned a modified Akula-class submarine, Red October, whose disillusioned captain and crew were attempting to defect to the United States. The largest submarines ever built were not ...

Built primarily for long missions under the polar icecap, the sheer size of the Typhoon, known indigenously as the Akula Class ... Clancy's novel "Hunt For The Red October," she was featured ...

By comparison, America's Ohio-class ballistic missile submarine has a hull only 42 feet wide. It carried 20 RSM-52 submarine-launched ballistic missiles -- the Red October was said to carry six ...

The new Borei-class SSBN is 580 feet (170 meters ... Pump-jet propulsion reduces noise and provides the submarine with a higher tactical ‘silent speed’ and increased maneuverability.

A Typhoon-class submarine similar to the fictional one in the film The Hunt for Red October (Picture Wikimedia Commons) In a naval chase with sinister echoes of Cold War-era submarine movies such ...

If you’ve ever seen The Hunt for Red October, you’re probably familiar with Russia’s truly massive Typhoon-class submarines. These Cold War giants still stand as the largest subs ever built.

Oscar class submarines, given the designation ... interiors were shot in a reconstructed film set (The "Red October" itself was a Russian Akula class sub). It is one of the more versatile ...