In the mid-1980s, the Soviet Union constructed a super submarine unlike any other. Fast and capable of astounding depths for a combat submersible, the submarine Komsomolets was introduced in 1984, ...
USS Puffer (SS 268), the fourth submarine constructed by the Manitowoc Shipbuilding Company during World War II, was launched on Nov. 22, 1942. Over nine successful patrols in the Pacific, Puffer ...
From a Western perspective, Soviet engineers seemed to approach their Cold War submarine as if they were high-performance jet fighters meant to out-slug, out-run and out-dive their adversaries in a ...
Upon completion of the underwater part of the test, the crew of the Velikiye Luki took the submarine to the surface and continued to carry out operations in accordance with the plan KALININGRAD, ...