K-278 Komsomolets was the Project-685 Plavnik, nuclear-powered attack submarine of the Soviet Navy; the only submarine of her design class.
K-278 upon deployment on 1 January in 1986.
Mir (submersible)
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Mir was a class of two self-propelled deep-submergence vehicles. The project was initially developed by the USSR Academy of Sciences along with Lazurit Central Design Bureau, and two vehicles were ord
Soviet submarine K-278 Komsomolets
…As well as eight standard torpedoes, K-278 was carrying two torpedoes armed with nuclear warheads. Under pressure from Norway, the Soviet Union used deep sea submersibles operated from the oceanographic research ship Keldysh to search for K-278. In June 1989, two months after the sinking, the wreck was located. Soviet…
Mir being lowered into the water by the crane on Akademik Mstislav Keldysh
Interior of Mir-2
The Mirs at Lake Geneva in July 2011
Mir-1 at the Museum of the World Ocean, Kalinigrad