The work on this submarine and four others in total five except for TK-208 is to be funded by the US Cooperative Threat Reduction program. TK-202 arrived to Severodvinsk first week of July 1999 for decommissioning. The submarine is, however, still in Severodvinsk. ![]() In 2000, Severodvinsk received additional funding for repairs and said that the submarine might join the Northern Fleet in 2001. The first submarine within Typhoon class TK-208 commissioned in 1981 has been under repairs in Severodvinsk since 1990. Two last built submarines TK-17 and TK-20 allegedly remain in service but de facto they have not been fulfilling any missions the past two or three years. In 1996, TK-12 and TK-202 and in 1997 TK-13 were taken out of regular service and placed on reserve. The Pacific Fleet was also to build base facilities for Typhoons but had failed to do anything in that direction until 1990s when the Typhoon program was finally wrapped up. The loading of missiles was carried out by a transport ship Aleksandr Brykin which was built specifically for Typhoons and had 125-tonne crane onboard. They were used just like any other quay facilities except for being larger in size. No initial design features were functioning in the pier plants either. Neither the railway nor the quay crane were commissioned. They could be transported only by railway and lifted by a 125-tonne crane. Typhoon’s missiles were also difficult to handle due to their size. New pier plants were designed and built to supply Typhoons with electricity and heat when in base. The reconstruction of Nerpichya was completed in 1981. Most of the other existing bases could not accept Typhoons due to their football field size. Redesigning of Nerpichya base which earlier hosted first generation submarines of Echo-II and Hotel classes started in 1977. The seventh Typhoon was dismantled in the building berth in Severodvinsk in 1990.Īnother reason to quit Typhoons was the complicated infrastructure they required to operate properly. But by the end of 1980s a decision was made to halt the program due to the cost of the endeavour and political considerations the cold war was nearing its end. The Soviet Union had ambitious plans of building Typhoons in great numbers and assign them both to the Northern Fleet and the Pacific Fleet. All of them were stationed in Nerpichya base, Zapadnaya Litsa fjord at the Kola Peninsula. The last Typhoon was commissioned in 1989. The first submarine entered service in 1981. The nuclear installation was equipped with the system of battery-free cooling, and the reactor control rods would go down automatically in case of emergency even if the submarine flips. Typhoons were also designed to launch missiles from the Arctic being capable of surfacing from underneath 2 to 2.5 meters thick ice to shoot out its arsenal.Įach Typhoon had two PWR reactors with 100,000 h.p., located in the starboard and portside hulls. ![]() Such solution led to increased displacement of the submarine Typhoon class has 49,800 tonnes displacement submerged and was nicknamed a “water-carrier” but it also led to increased safety and better possibilities to perform repairs and upgrade due to a high degree of modulation of various parts of machinery. The oblate form of the submarine was prompted by the shallow waters in the area of Severodvinsk shipyards. The submarine was to integrate two independent hulls a kind of catamaran. The USSR engineered solid fuel missiles, but they grew in size what influenced the design of Typhoon class. The design work of Typhoons started in 1973 and was an answer to American Trident submarines which could carry 24 new solid fuel intercontinental missiles. This 172 meters long submarine is capable of carrying 20 ballistic missiles each armed with 10 nuclear warheads. The Soviet Union has built six Typhoons world’s biggest submarines included into the Guinness Book of World Records and promoted in Hollywood’s Hunt for the Red October. The whole process is funded by the US Cooperative Threat Reduction program, or Nunn-Lugar program. The submarine will be scrapped shortly after that. Severodvinsk shipyard Sevmash has started defueling a Typhoon class submarine.
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