My translation of the first page on the “Typhoon”
“In december 1972 “Rubin” Construction Bureau received from the Navy Command the task to develop new underwater carriers for new solid fuel Ballistic Missiles R-39.
The head ship TK-208 was laid on the June 30th 1976 and commissioned on November 12th 1981,the first R-39 Missile was fire-tested from her two weeks later(27.12.81).The last ship of this class(TK-20) was commissioned in september of the year 1989.After the signing of Soviet-US START II the building of the seventh ship was canceled in 1990,she was subsequently disassembled right at the shipyard.
28.500/33.800 tonnes ; 172,8×23,3×11,5 meters ; working depth 380 meters(limit depth 500 m);2 reactors OK-650;(power unit ???) 50.000 Hp ;twin screws ;
speed 12/25 knots.Armament :20 R-39 SLBM,four 650 mm & two 533 mm
nose torpedo launch tubes with payload of 22 torpedoes and rocket-torpedoes.
Air Defense: 8 “Iglas I” systems. Crew 179 sailors.Autonomy 120 days(180 according to other sources).
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