The Typhoon-class nuclear submarine is the largest nuclear submarine built by humans. The boat is huge, with its spacious interior and numerous cabins, providing each crew with 3 square meters of rest space. Since the boat is designed for long-term missions overseas, especially in the Arctic, great importance is attached to the comfort of the environment inside the boat. There are 160 officers and men on board, and the reserve materials are enough to dive for 120 consecutive days, which seems to exceed the limit of the mental state of most submarine officers and men in the world. There is even a small swimming pool equivalent to a large bath, and leisure facilities such as a three-warm and video game room. This is something that cannot be imagined by the old submarine crew who have to take turns sleeping in hot bunks. This group of pictures shows the living rest area inside the submarine, showing a different luxury from the submarine.
The U.S. Navy built the Ohio-class ballistic missile submarine capable of carrying a total of 192 discrete guided warheads on July 1, 1974, and the Soviet Response was that it had to have each ballistic nuclear submarine capable of carrying 200 warheads, and the main difficulty faced by Soviet designers was that the SS-N-20 ballistic missiles available in the Soviet Union at that time were too large, with a total length of 16.1 meters, a diameter of 2.4 meters, and a total weight of 84 tons. At that time, the technical level was that the diameter of the world's largest submarine pressure killing body was only about 13 meters. If you want to carry 20 pieces, it must be very large and difficult to layout. The designers conceived of an unorthodox layout, with 3 pressure-resistant shells: 2 longer on the bottom and 1 on the top and relatively short, from the bow to the stern, the finished glyph arrangement. The two pressure-resistant shells below extend almost the entire length of the ship but have watertight partitions inside, and most of the members live and work in these two pressure-resistant shells. These 2 pressure-resistant shells are interconnected when one of them is damaged. Personnel can go to another refuge. There is enough space between the two pressure-resistant shells in the front section of the hull to divide into two rows to install 20 pressure-resistant launchers. In the middle section, a short pressure resistant shell is located above the two pressure resistant shells, which is the command center inside, and the outer left and right sides of the short pressure resistant shell are arranged with a personnel escape pod that can accommodate 85 people. The 3 pressure-resistant shells and 20 launchers are covered with a hydrodynamic housing to reduce sailing resistance and water noise, but the deck above the launch tube has armored steel plates specifically designed to enhance the structure.
The Soviet number of this submarine is Type 941, the Soviet Union's own name is shark, NATO gave it the code name Typhoon, the length of the submarine is 171.5 meters, the width of 23.3 meters, displacement of more than 20,000 tons. Equipped with 20 SS-N--20 missiles, it can strike targets 8,000 kilometers away. The first ship of the Typhoon class was built with the designation TK-208, and on June 30, 1979, the keel was installed, and a total of six Typhoon class ships were completed, they were numbered TK-208, TK-202, TK-12, TK-13, TK-17TK-20. TK-202 began dismantling in 1999. The TK-12 was dismantled between 2006 and 2008. The TK-13 was dismantled between 2007 and 2009. The service period of the TK-17 and TK-20 was once announced to be extended, but it was finally decided to dismantle the TK-17 and TK-20 from 2018, and the only ship still in service is the typhoon-class first ship, the TK-208.
