Russia’s Alfa-Class Submarine Was a Fast ‘Titanium Terror’ with 1 Flaw
Key Points and Summary – The Soviet Union’s Project 705 Lira, or Alfa-class, was a technologically brilliant but deeply flawed submarine.
-Thanks to its revolutionary titanium hull and a compact lead-bismuth cooled reactor, the Alfa was the fastest submarine ever built, reaching speeds over 40 knots.
-The Flaw: However, this pursuit of speed created a vessel that was incredibly noisy.
-It was easy to detect due to its lack of stealth, and it had a dangerously unreliable reactor.
-The program was a costly failure, but its legend was so potent that the U.S. and U.K. had to develop new, faster torpedoes just to be able to catch it.
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NC Scout is the nom de guerre of a former Infantry Scout and Sergeant in one of the Army’s best Reconnaissance Units. He has combat tours in both Iraq and Afghanistan. He teaches a series of courses focusing on small unit skills rarely if ever taught anywhere else in the prepping and survival field, including his RTO Course which focuses on small unit communications. In his free time he is an avid hunter, bushcrafter, writer, long range shooter, prepper, amateur radio operator and Libertarian activist. He can be contacted at [email protected] or via his blog at brushbeater.wordpress.com .
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