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Rare look at the YF-17 n 1976 as it lost to the F-16 and before the Navy scooped it up and requested among other things, a beefier landing gear to these original ones.

Carrying AIM-7 Sparrows on the wingtip rails.

 

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If this K-51 Verkhoturye projekt 667BDRM (Dolphin/Delta-IV) of the Russian Navy doesn't remind you of The Red October, I don't know what would! lol. Look at the size of that monster!

 

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If this K-51 Verkhoturye projekt 667BDRM (Dolphin/Delta-IV) of the Russian Navy doesn't remind you of The Red October, I don't know what would! lol. Look at the size of that monster!

Yes it is that monster that carries 16 R-29RM liquid-fueled missiles which carry four multiple independently targetable reentry vehicles (that is 64 nuclear warheads). It is also able to fire missiles in any direction from a constant course in a circular sector. And the underwater firing of the ballistic missiles can be conducted at a depth of 55 meters while cruising at a speed of 6-7 knots. All the missiles can be fired in a single salvo.

 

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All the missiles can be fired in a single salvo.

And they actually did it.

On 6 August 1991 at 21:09, K-407 Novomoskovsk, under the command of Captain Second Rank Sergey Yegorov, became the world's only submarine to successfully launch an all-missile salvo, launching 16 R-29RM (RSM-54) ballistic missiles of total weight of almost 700 tons in 244 seconds (operation code name "Behemoth-2"). All the missile hit their designated targets at the Kura Missile Test Range in Kamchatka.

R-29RM Shtil - Wikipedia

en.wikipedia.org

I wonder if that's a typo on the year the keel was laid in 1981 and it was commissioned in 1984!? It took 3 years to build that behemoth? lol

 

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If this K-51 Verkhoturye projekt 667BDRM (Dolphin/Delta-IV) of the Russian Navy doesn't remind you of The Red October, I don't know what would! lol. Look at the size of that monster!

The development of the Delta IV submarine began on 10 September 1975 by the Rubin Central Design Bureau for Marine Engineering. The first Dolphin submarine was launched in January 1985 and in December 1985 the first Dolphin submarine was introduced into Northern fleet. Between 1985 and 1990 seven Dolphin SSBN were constructed by the Sevmashpredpriyatiye Production Association in Severodvinsk.

https://fas.org/nuke/guide/russia/slbm/667BDRM.htm

And they actually did it.

On 6 August 1991 at 21:09, K-407 Novomoskovsk, under the command of Captain Second Rank Sergey Yegorov, became the world's only submarine to successfully launch an all-missile salvo, launching 16 R-29RM (RSM-54) ballistic missiles of total weight of almost 700 tons in 244 seconds (operation code name "Behemoth-2"). All the missile hit their designated targets at the Kura Missile Test Range in Kamchatka.

R-29RM Shtil - Wikipedia

en.wikipedia.org

I wonder if that's a typo on the year the keel was laid in 1981 and it was commissioned in 1984!? It took 3 years to build that behemoth? lol

The development of the Delta IV submarine began on 10 September 1975 by the Rubin Central Design Bureau for Marine Engineering. The first Dolphin submarine was launched in January 1985 and in December 1985 the first Dolphin submarine was introduced into Northern fleet. Between 1985 and 1990 seven Dolphin SSBN were constructed by the Sevmashpredpriyatiye Production Association in Severodvinsk.

https://fas.org/nuke/guide/russia/slbm/667BDRM.htm

 

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A little stymied a bit here..................F-15 with the new GE engines with those larger turkey feathers?

 

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