Posted on 03/04/2016 2:57:41 PM PST by Pan_Yan
The technical museum named After K. G. Sakharov is probably one of the main places of interest in Togliatti. It was founded in 1998, today it has many unique exhibits and is surely worth visiting. The museum allows to trace the historical development of the automobile, engineering, armoured, aviation, railway, missile, artillery and naval weapons. The B-307 was retired and moved to the museum!
The Russian Tango-class submarines (Project 641B Som [Catfish]) were the successors to the Foxtrot-class submarine based in the Black Sea and Northern Fleet areas. The first of the class was completed in 1972 at Gorky. A total of 18 were built in two slightly different versions. The later type was several metres longer than the first possibly because of installation of ASW missile equipment.
The bow sonar installations appear to be similar to those fitted into Soviet nuclear attack submarines. The propulsion plant was the same as the last subgroup of the Foxtrot-class submarine. The Tango class had far more battery capacity, far higher than previous conventional submarine class in the Soviet Navy. As a result, pressure hull volume increased. This allowed an underwater endurance in excess of a week before snorkeling was required.
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Must be a helluva museum with things like that in it!
Why is it everything the Russians build looks like they found it in a K-Mart dumpster?
Because besides cockroaches, K-Mart dumpsters will survive a nuclear war.
And that's how your basic Roosky thinks, son.
To be fair that boat had been rotting at a dock for 12 years before moving to it’s new home. I remember seeing the HMS Trafalgar in Hawaii and it looked like a prop from Junk Yard Wars. A few hundred thousand miles submerged in the ocean will wear you out.
Looks a lot like a Skate class in that picture.
looks like duct tape on the front
Re ‘Duct Tape on front:’ “The bow sonar installations appear to be similar to those fitted into Soviet nuclear attack submarines.”
Perhaps it is fiberglass cover over the sonar and just painted silver. Any navy experts to comment please.
All Russian equipment old or new always has rust on it.
Fred Thompson, US Senator and great actor. RIP
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fred_Thompson
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0-JA1ffd5Ms
Another great movie outtake as well
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UxLe8MWdWe0
When the captured German U-boat U-505 arrived in Chicago, they hauled it out of Lake Michigan, put it on rollers, similar to what the Egyptians must have used when building the Pyramids, rolled it across the street and rolled it to the Science and Industry museum where it is today. The Russkies could do the same thing with this hulk.
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