The Akula I-class displaces 13,000 tons when fully submerged. It has a steel double-hull design. The submarine’s engines are “rafted” to reduce sound that could be picked up by enemy sonar.

A writer from Michigan, Peter Suchu, who regularly publishes in The National Interest noted that the new Perm submarine with ...

The Sierra-class, too, is a renowned—and rare—Russian submarine because of its unique titanium hull. Yet, the Akula and Sierra, while being cutting-edge submarines for their time (and still ...

was known in the USSR as the Project 941 Akula-class. At the time it was conceived, Moscow sought a submarine capable of carrying an unprecedented number of ballistic missiles, ensuring the ...

TASS/. The Project 971 ‘Shchuka-B’ [NATO reporting name: Akula] nuclear-powered underwater cruiser Gepard successfully struck a notional enemy’s submarine with an anti-submarine missile ...

MOSCOW, December 28. /TASS/. Mikhail Budnichenko, director general at the Sevmash naval shipyard has said no other Navies in the world have a submarine like the Akula-class Dmitry Donskoy.