The Echo class were nuclear cruise missile submarines of the Soviet Navy built during the 1960s. Their Soviet designation was Project 659 for the first five vessels, and Project 675 for the following
Nuclear-powered cruise-missile submarine of Project 675 (Echo II)
Nuclear-powered submarine of Project 659 (Echo I) re-equipped into attack submarine of Project 659T
Launch of cruise missile P-6 (SS-N-3A) from a Project 675 (Echo II) submarine
The P-5 Pityorka, also known by the NATO reporting name SS-N-3 Shaddock for submarine-launched versions and SS-N-3 Sepal for ship and coastal defence versions, is a Cold War era turbojet-powered cruis
Echo-class submarine
…659 class) were completed at Komsomolsk in the Soviet far east in 1960 to 1963. The Echo I class were classed as SSGNs armed with six launchers for the P-5 Pyatyorka (SS-N-3C, "Shaddock") land-attack cruise missile. The Echo I class had to operate in a strategic rather than anti-shipping role because of the lack of…
A P-5 missile on static display, red air intake cover clearly visibile
Juliett-class submarine with P-5 missile launchers raised.
A Redut coastal missile battery.