USS Halibut (SSGN-587)
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USS Halibut, a unique nuclear-powered guided missile submarine-turned-special operations platform, later redesignated as an attack submarine SSN-587, was the second ship of the United States Navy to b
USS Halibut
Halibut firing a Regulus missile next to the aircraft carrier Lexington, 25 March 1960
Halibut with Diamond Head in the background in late 1965. Note her topside thruster and lack of DSRV
View of Halibut departing San Francisco, likely in the mid-1970s.
K-129 was a Project 629A diesel-electric-powered ballistic missile submarine that served in the Pacific Fleet of the Soviet Navy. It was one of six Project 629 strategic ballistic-missile submarines a
USS Halibut (SSGN-587)
…line running from the Kamchatka peninsula west to the Soviet mainland in the Sea of Okhotsk (Operation Ivy Bells) Surveying sunken Soviet submarine K-129 in August 1968, prior to the CIA's Project Azorian. The latter mission is profiled in the 1996 book, Spy Sub – A Top Secret Mission to the Bottom of…
Golf II-class ballistic missile submarine K-129, hull number 722
The model of the sunken and deteriorated K-129