The Russian Navy’s Typhoon Class is the undisputed king of submarine designs. It is much larger than anything else ever built. For context, the 33,800-ton monster is almost twice as large as the ...

One Big Submarine According to Peter Siciu, the Typhoon-class was a “vessel that the U.S. Navy could never match in terms of size and tonnage.”Approximately the same size as a World War II-era ...

Today the largest submarine in the world is Russia’s mighty Typhoon Class ballistic missile sub. It’s massive, but it could be dwarfed if Russian engineers get their way. A ginormous undersea ...

What You Need to Know: The Russian Navy has decommissioned the Dmitry Donskoy, the last active Typhoon-class submarine and the largest submarine ever built. Initially entering service in 1981 as ...

A Cold War story has come to an end as the largest ever submarine is put out to pasture. According to the Russian state news agency TASS, the Dmitry Donskoy, the first of the gigantic Typhoon ...

Key Point and Summary: The Typhoon-class submarines were the largest ever built, designed to rival America’s Ohio-class SSBNs during the Cold War. -These 48,000-ton giants carried 20 massive RSM ...

The Russian navy is planning to scrap its legendary Typhoon-class nuclear submarine by 2014, at least five years early. Here are its main characteristics: A Russian Typhoon Class nuclear submarine ...