Russia Launches Belgorod, the World’s Longest Submarine

Popular Mechanics ^ | April 24, 2019 | Kyle Mizokami

[C19fan]

Russia launched the world’s longest submarine today, the special mission submarine Belgorod. Designed to support a variety of military missions, including the Poseidon long-range strategic nuclear torpedo, the sub is far larger than anything operated by any other naval force, including the U.S. Navy. The six hundred foot long submarine displaces more water than a World War I battleship and can dive to a depth of 1,700 feet.

[elcid1970]

Did the Russians have escape pods before the Kursk disaster?

[hattend]

A thousand mile torpedo?

How does it know what/where the target is?

[x]

Who knew Putin was so insecure that way?

[VietVet876]

I assume it has a guidance system that can be pre-programmed. I wouldn’t do AI with two megs at stake.

[sourcery]

Probably a reference to an actual city: https://www.quora.com/Which-city-is-known-as-the-White-City?share=1

[Forward the Light Brigade]

If war starts it will not survive long—just enough time to launch its weapons before it and the crew go to Orthodox Heaven.

[Captain Rhino]

Kursk sank in 354 feet of water and had a rescue trunk in the aft end of the submarine. Escape to the surface was theoretically possible. However, if you managed to survive the ascent, you would not survive long on the surface due to hyperthermia from the extremely cold Arctic Sea water.

Twenty three of the 118 crew did survive the initial sinking. However, the exterior hatch of the rescue trunk was jammed shut because the explosions/hard landing on the bottom had distorted the hatch frame. A surviving crewman volunteered to try using it and drown. His body was found in the flooded escape trunk by the rescue divers. The others either burned to death in the post-sinking flash fire or suffocated.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Russian_submarine_Kursk_(K-141)