'Akula' submarine - Russia's most terrifying military equipment

The Soviet Union built the largest submarines in the world, and the Project 941 Akula submarine became one of the "most terrible types of military equipment" ever created by man, - according to expert Kyle Mizokami from The National Interest magazine.

These "ocean monsters" can destroy up to two hundred targets with the help of nuclear warheads six times more powerful than the atomic bomb dropped on Hiroshima. Such submarines are capable of "destroying an entire country," the article notes.

The submarine of project 941 "Akula" (or Typhoon according to NATO classification coding) was created as the sea part of the "nuclear triad" of the USSR and was the answer to the American submarine of the "Ohio" type, — the author reminds.

The "Akula" was designed with Arctic operations in mind and featured a reinforced block structure, allowing it to overcome polar ice floes, a large buoyancy reserve and two protected propellers.

Another Soviet invention was the new R-39 ballistic missile, which had a range that allowed it to reach any point on the territory of the United States. Although the Akula submarines had 20 missiles compared to 24 missiles on the American Ohio submarine, each R-39 missile carried 10 individually guided nuclear warheads, which allowed it to attack up to 10 different targets at the same time. Thus, the Akula could carry up to 200 nuclear warheads, while the American submarines had only 192, — expert Kyle Mizokami compared.

The Soviet Union planned to build eight submarines of the Akula project, but in the end only six were built. Now the Russian Navy has only one submarine of this type, the Dmitry Donskoy, — said an expert from The National Interest magazine.

According to Sputnik