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Interior Images of Typhoon Sub – world's largest submarine (2009)

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Re: Interior Images of Typhoon Sub – world's largest submarine (2009)

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I like that it has a full size lathe (how common is that for subs?). Well and a swimming pool, seltzer water dispenser and the 1980 Soviet sub arcade. I remember that was my favorite arcade game too.

Machine shops aren't uncommon on naval ships. Such a well supplied one is perhaps unlikely aboard a submarine, but missile subs are the largest and generally the longest-cruising of any type, so it makes a deal of sense they'd have as much capability for self-maintenance as possible, especially given their vital deterrent role. Same goes for the pool et cetera - the human crew being as important to the mission as the boat herself, and just as much meriting maintenance.

Re: Interior Images of Typhoon Sub – world's largest submarine (2009)

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Could you launch an ICBM horizontally?

could the submarine rotate into a vertical position?

Not without sinking. The ballast and trim tanks won't suffice to give that much up-angle; you'd need to flood some after compartments to make it happen, and that is a very bad idea, especially since you would not also be able to maintain neutral buoyancy.

Besides, why would you want to? Your missile tubes are configured for vertical launch anyway, and it's not as though you can just pop a missile out, haul it through the corridors to the forward torpedo room, stuff it in a tube there, and fire it. Every one of those things isn't a thing you can do.

Re: Interior Images of Typhoon Sub – world's largest submarine (2009)

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Documentary here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dHOMRsHS6no Compare with the interior as imagined in "The Hunt for Red October" :-)

There was a National Geographic documentary[1] about scrapping one of the Typhoons. I could only find a Russian language version on Youtube[2], which it's still fun to at least scan thru quickly just to see the scale of the thing

[1] Unfortunately the Wikipedia link is broken https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Typhoon-class_submarine#Notabl...

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HGhxGgQ-Cd4

Re: Interior Images of Typhoon Sub – world's largest submarine (2009)

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Documentary here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dHOMRsHS6no Compare with the interior as imagined in "The Hunt for Red October" :-)

There was a National Geographic documentary[1] about scrapping one of the Typhoons. I could only find a Russian language version on Youtube[2], which it's still fun to at least scan thru quickly just to see the scale of the thing [1] Unfortunately the Wikipedia link is broken https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Typhoon-class_submarine#Notabl... [1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HGhxGgQ-Cd4

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=M6ld7_7ss64 (same video in English)
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