Modern Engineering Marvels on MSN

The $3 billion submarine the Navy can't build again

Some machines are so specialized that they outlive the moment that created them. The Seawolf-class attack submarine is one of ...
Submarine Insider on MSN

The deadliest 3 billion dollar US submarine shocked the world

The Seawolf-class submarine was designed at the height of the Cold War to hunt the Soviet Union’s quietest and most dangerous ...
The National Interest

The Soviet Union Built a Titanium Submarine. Why Didn’t America?

Despite its impressive nature, the Lira-class was in no real way a strategic game-changer for the Soviets in their bid to defeat the West—and its costs were immense. During the Cold War, many radical ...
EL PAÍS English

The threat of the ‘Komsomolets’: A Soviet nuclear submarine has been leaking radiation from the seabed for four decades

The K-278 has been emitting radioactive material since it sank in 1989, although torpedoes with atomic warheads resist ...

Continued monitoring of sunken Soviet submarine shows ongoing radioactive leakage, but little impact

In 1989, the Soviet nuclear-powered attack submarine Komsomolets sank to the bottom of the Norwegian Sea, along with its ...

Sunken Soviet Submarine Is Quietly Leaking Radiation Decades Later, Study Finds

While the nuclear-powered attack sub’s reactor appears to be ‘corroded,’ years of collaboration with Russian authorities has ...
BGR

This Keeps Deep-Diving Titanium Nuclear Submarines Unique To Russia

During the height of the Cold War, the rivalry between the United States and the Soviet Union spurred several technology-oriented races where both countries were trying to outdo the competition. The ...
Nature

Sunken Soviet nuclear submarine’s radioactive release

In 1989, the Komsomolets burst into flames and sank, taking with it the plutonium in its nuclear reactor and two nuclear ...