Submarines had a vital, if often underappreciated, role in the superpower navies during the Cold War. Their crews carried out intelligence-collection operations, sought out and stood ready to destroy opposing submarines, and, from the early 1960s, threatened missile attacks on their adversary's homeland, providing in many respects the most survivable nuclear deterrent of the Cold War. In Cold War Submarines, Norman Polmar and K. J. Moore provide the definitive history of the design and construction of these undersea fleets.Despite major problems with the prototype Project 705 submarine and a major reactor problem with another submarine of ... 1 S5W 2 VM-5 1 OK-550/BM-40A Turbines a a 2 2 1 horsepower a a 15, 000 80, 000 40, 000 Diesel engines 2 3 anbsp;...
Title | : | Cold War Submarines |
Author | : | Norman Polmar, Kenneth J. Moore |
Publisher | : | Potomac Books, Inc. - 2004 |
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