Cold War Nuclear Submarines
Soviet project 667bd delta ii class nuclear powered ballistic missile submarine a ballistic missile submarine is a submarine capable of deploying submarine launched ballistic missiles slbms with nuclear warheads.
Cold war nuclear submarines. At the time of the manhattan project before the cold war really began there was some talk about the possibility of using nuclear power to propel submarines. They were complemented by fast attack submarines which kept close tabs on enemy submarines ready to strike at the first sign of a hostile launch. Cold war submarines will build any us submarine. Two nuclear submarines from rival sides in the cold war collided a few miles off the coast of scotland in an incident that was covered up for 43 years.
The royal navy initially with some us assistance developed a. Nuclear submarines came about as a result of technological advances. Click on the menu at the left to select a product. The uss seawolf was designed in the late cold war days to dive deeper than others and aimed at counter ballistic missile subs sailing out from the kola peninsula.
Petersburg krasnoye sormovo in nizhny novgorod and amurskiy zavod in komsomolsk on amur from the late 1950s through the end of 1997 the soviet union and later russia built a total of 245. Ingalls shipbuilding an existing gulf coast ship builder that had previously done mostly cargo ships entered the struggle producing nuclear submarines the world s most technologically advanced craft rivaling the manned space program in complexity. Each submarine is custom built to museum quality normally for a specific submarine veteran for a particular time period. Click on submarine models in the menu to the left to see construction details.
The submarine is armed with eight torpedo tubes and can hold up to 50 weapons in its torpedo room including the tomahawk cruise missile. The soviets were ahead in rocketry and conventional submarines. The united states needed to maintain strategic leadership. Nuclear submarines weren t developed exclusively for use in the cold war.
Nuclear powered submarines played a major role in the cold war as underwater ballistic missile launch platforms. The united states and the soviet union were the main players in the cold war submarine campaign but were hardly the only entrants.