Soviet frigate Storozhevoy
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Storozhevoy was a Soviet Navy Project 1135 Burevestnik-class anti-submarine frigate. After commissioning, the Soviet Navy assigned the ship to its Baltic Fleet and based it in Baltiysk. Storozhevoy wa
A Burevestnik (Krivak I)-class frigate Zadorniy at anchor. Storozhevoy would have looked identical in most respects to the vessel pictured here.
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The Hunt for Red October
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The Hunt for Red October is the debut novel by American author Tom Clancy, first published on October 1, 1984, by the Naval Institute Press. It depicts Soviet submarine captain Marko Ramius as he seem
Soviet frigate Storozhevoy
…the Nimitz Library of the United States Naval Academy where it was read by Tom Clancy, then an insurance salesman, who used it as inspiration to write The Hunt for Red October. That novel was turned into a 1990 film under the same name. Portions of Young's thesis were published in the naval magazine Sea Power in 1985 and in…
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