one of the most feared Weapons of Mass Destruction

These days the term 'Weapons of Mass Destruction' were made famous by the series of lies that started the Iraq War, the fear that struck so many people in the west was of Iraq somehow being able to strike them (remember post 9/11 fear) with a nuclear weapon, but throughout recent history the most scary Weapon of Mass Destruction would definitely have to have been the Typhoon class nuclear ballistic missile submarine.


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Six of these massive beasts were made during the 1980's and designed to operate in the case of a war between the USSR and the United States, the GIUK gap a resupply line for the US backed Western Europe, this line consisted of several US Naval submarines, destroyers and aircraft carriers, the Typhoon class submarines however didn't even have to bypass any of this since they could simply fire their 20 nuclear ICBM's from the cold Arctic and devastate the eastern seaboard of the United States!



The subs length was about 574 ft which is about the size of three football fields, it could carry 20 SLBM (Submarine Launched Ballistic Missile) that specific one most common on the Typhoon class subs (the R-39 Rif) had a range of 8,250 km, weighs 90 tonnes and have 10 MIRV nuclear warheads each giving each one a blast yield of 200 Kt!

With all that it also has several recreational facilities for its crew including saunas and swimming pools, it was designed for long deployment being able to spend up to 180 days submerged under Arctic ice where it was nearly virtually impossible to detect.

However since the Cold War ended and the Soviet Union collapsed three of the six ever made were scrapped, one preserved and two remain in service, however these two usually remain in dock (at Severodvinsk which borders the White Sea), however these have been stripped of their nuclear SLBM's, it was rumored they might be modified to carry ordinary conventional cruise missiles or be used for mine laying operations.

However the two remaining active will be reserved for possible future repairs and modernization, and if the US keeps meddling on the Russian border with those fascist creeps like Yushchenko of Ukraine or Saakashvili of Georgia these machines o' war may be quickly revamped to their ordinary nuclear configuration to once again strike fear to those living in major eastern US cities such as New York City and Washington DC!