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#Nuclear horror story, short🧵:
1. Soviet submarine K-320 was a Project 670 Skat/Charlie I-class SSGN. Designed by Lazurit design bureau, these submarines were intended to carry surprise attacks on Western/NATO high-value naval assets.
#Nuclear horror story, short🧵:
1. Soviet submarine K-320 was a Project 670 Skat/Charlie I-class SSGN. Designed by Lazurit design bureau, these submarines were intended to carry surprise attacks on Western/NATO high-value naval assets.
@CovertShores @Capt_Navy @RSS_40 @SubBrief @USN_Submariner @TayfunOzberk @FORONAVAL @The_Lookout_N @R_P_one @FPSchazly 2. Charlie-I SSGNs were armed with P-70 Ametist/SS-N-7 Starbright SLCMs housed in two rows of four missile tubes on each side of the bow & outside the pressure hull as well as 4x533mm & 2x400mm torpedo tubes capable to launch variety of torpedoes & decoys.
@CovertShores @Capt_Navy @RSS_40 @SubBrief @USN_Submariner @TayfunOzberk @FORONAVAL @The_Lookout_N @R_P_one @FPSchazly 3. K-320 was laid down at Krasnoe Sormovo Shipyard as K-302 on 30/04/1968, launched on 27/03/1971 & commissioned 15/09/1971.
At the beginning of 1970, the submarine was still on the slipway, when a serious radiological accident happened on 18 of January.
At the beginning of 1970, the submarine was still on the slipway, when a serious radiological accident happened on 18 of January.
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1. In the early 1977, Royal Navy's Swiftsure class leader HMS Swiftsure (S-126) shadowed Soviet Navy's Project 1143 Krechyet class aircraft carrier Kiev during the Northern Fleet's exercise Sever-77.
1. In the early 1977, Royal Navy's Swiftsure class leader HMS Swiftsure (S-126) shadowed Soviet Navy's Project 1143 Krechyet class aircraft carrier Kiev during the Northern Fleet's exercise Sever-77.
2. Swiftsure's Captain John Speller ordered the submarine to approach the carrier from behind, moving only a few knots faster than the carrier. As the Swiftsure approched close enough the crew
could only see massive waves created by Kiev's propellers.
could only see massive waves created by Kiev's propellers.
3. Swiftsure slipped under the hull of the carrier and maintaing her speed she started to record the noise footprint of Kiev so that
she could be identified by the SOSUS network & other Western submarines.
she could be identified by the SOSUS network & other Western submarines.
