Over a year ago, Russia decommissioned the Project 941 Akula (NATO reporting name Typhoon) heavy nuclear-powered missile-carrying submarine cruiser Dmitry Donskoy several years earlier than expected.

The Russian Typhoon-class SSBN (Project 941 "Akula") is the largest nuclear-powered ballistic missile submarine ever built. Designed during the Cold War to counter the U.S. Navy’s Ohio-class ...

Akula-Class For Rent: Russian Nuclear-Powered Submarine Ultimately, the post-Soviet Russian government could not afford to maintain the Akula II during the turbulent 1990s and early 2000s.