During the year 2008 I went to Germany to one of the model gatherings and after seeing those models with my own eyes I was sure that I don’t want one. For some time I was reading about the Engel piston tanks and was impressed by their quality and capabilities. I wanted to have a model with lots of room inside for additional systems and experiments. At the depth of 100 meters K-162 managed to reach a speed of 82.8 km/h The nuclear reactor powering the sub was using about 97% of its capacity at the time, so theoretically it could have gone even faster.My first Engel Kit, bought after a long and difficult conversion of the Revell Type VIIC 1:72. In December 1970, it set a world record that remains unbroken to this day.

The fastest ever submarine - K-162 (later renamed into K-222) of the Project 661 Anchar - was commissioned in 1969. The criminal investigation of the tragedy was wrapped up in 1998, but no guilty party, or conclusive reason for the fire, was found. Komsomolets’ crew did not handle the crisis properly and the submarine remains on the seabed. According to former Navy officer Sergei Topchiev, the crew was not qualified to operate the sophisticated onboard technology. The reason why a state-of-art submarine fell prey to a fire can be explained by its technological complexity. Forty-two of the 69 crew died, mainly due to hypothermia. As a result, the crew spent more than an hour in the ice-cold water of the Norwegian Sea.

The sub managed to surface but could not wait long enough for help in the form of other ships to arrive. On Apa fire broke out in one of the submarine’s sections. However, the project had a tragic ending. The tests demonstrated that the USSR had a unique submarine with no analogs in the world: It could attack an opponent while avoiding reprisal strikes. K-278 was ready to go in 1984 and was used primarily as an experimental submarine. Designers used titanium to create a light and tough hull. It took years to design the vessel and the project was eventually realized in 1978. The task to create a submarine that could submerge to an extreme depth was set by the government in 1966. Komsomolets was the only submarine of the “Plavnik” (“Fin”) project. Even present-day submarines cannot go deeper than 600 meters. Nobody had done anything like this before, or since after. At a depth of 800 meters the submarine made a torpedo salvo. 4, 1984, the Soviet nuclear-powered submarine K-278 Komsomolets reached a record submergence depth of 1,027 meters in the Norwegian Sea. It was re-equipped and has been used as a testing platform for the development of the Bulava missile project. Overall, six submarines were produced, although only one is in service now: The Dmitry Donskoy. The Soviet leadership decided to launch the new generation of submarines referred to as heavy cruisers with “better missiles than American Tridents.” New Soviet R-39 missiles were loaded on board the subs, but they were heavier and larger, one reason why Akula submarines were so big. plans to launch new, powerful “Ohio” subs. The development of Akula class submarines started in the early 1970s in response to U.S. A starboard quarter view of a Soviet Project 941 'Akula' class ballistic missile submarine underway

Russian typhoon submarine