The Soviet Navy's Project 651 was a class of Soviet diesel-electric cruise-missile submarines. They were designed in the late 1950s to provide them with a nuclear strike capability against targets alo
K-77, a Project 651 submarine
A photo of K-24 in Peenemünde, Germany. The Argument (Front Door) radar is at the front of the sail, with the Front Piece datalink above it. Aft of the sail, the rear missile mount is visible, elevated to its maximum of 15°.
A Juliett-class submarine
A P-3C flies over a Juliett-class submarine
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
Juliett-class submarine
…the Soviet Navy was tasked to neutralize American bases and aircraft carriers. It began construction of a large number of expensive nuclear-powered (Echo-class submarines) to accomplish this, but could not build enough nuclear reactors to equip them promptly. Even though the Juliett class was inferior to the…
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