September 1980 marked the start of the water giant submarine of the new sample, which reach heights of nine homes and the area equal to two football fields.It was a kind of response to the Soviet Union for the development and construction of NATO submarines "Ohio", able to strike from anywhere in the Atlantic and Pacific Oceans for several tens of purposes within the territory of the USSR.For advanced impact of the Union General Staff needed mobile submarine for combat from the territory of the Arctic Ocean.Track this remedy under the ice was not possible even space satellites.
All the deep water areas of the globe were underwater war.The only exception is the Arctic Ocean, which is its unpredictable ice prevented turn at full power.The storming of the North Pole, we won.It is for water with a temperature created submarine "Shark", a photo of which is shown in this page.In warmer waters, the submarine does not feel entirely comfortable, its engine and equipment are subject to significant overheating.
Construction
According to the strategic calculation of the General Staff of the Soviet Union their permanent duty under the ice had to carry several submarines, each of which has in its arsenal 20 intercontinental ballistic missiles.In addition, each missile had ten multiple warheads aimed at the city of a potential enemy.Submarine "Shark" was not able to do battle blows from the ice.For this purpose it has a built a strong cutting.She pushes the ice or explode them with torpedoes.Technical order to build the submarine was difficult.Submarine "Shark" was supposed to have 20 nuclear missile silos with the possibility of starting all at once.The strategy of nuclear war at that time was in momentary shock, while a second chance could no longer be.That such weapons of war required "Shark."Submarine finally got a huge - 55% of its 50,000-ton displacement was given to the contents of the ballast tanks, because of what was dubbed the Water Carrier.Its length is 172 meters and a width of about 23 meters, she had upset the body up to 11 meters.Not so long ago the magazine "Science and Life" published an interview with one of the officers, who described in detail the interior.It turns out, the submarine "Shark" had a very good living conditions.The crew was housed in 2-x, 4-x-6-timestnye cabins, sheathed with plastic by natural wood.Each room had a desk, bookshelves, clothes closets, washbasin and TV.In order to maintain good physical shape I had officers with a variety of exercise equipment gym.
Currently six submarines were built only three.By agreement between Gorbachev and American submarines have been taken out special equipment management BR.From former power Russia remained fragments that it is time to collect and glue.And the most considerable among them - a submarine "Shark", sometimes also called the "Typhoon".
