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>на очень малое время выложены фотки (нормального качества) из статьи "Second Coming of Typhoon, Military
>Parade, Leonid Yakutin, 2002 October", выдернутые из pdf'ки, выложенной как-то в копилке Уважаемым Nuc'ом.
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u s s i a / f s u in-stack 21 Nov 2002
"Second Coming of Typhoon"
Leonid Yakutin, Military Parade (Sept.-Oct. 2002) (PDF format)
An article in the official journal of the Russian military-industrial complex covering the re-launch of the newly-named Dmitrij Donskoj (once simply known as TK-208), a Typhoon-class (Russian Project 941/Akula) nuclear-powered ballistic missile submarine (SSBN). TK-208 was the first of six hulls in the giant Typhoon-class, built for the Soviet Navy in 1981. After the collapse of the Soviet Union, the future of the Typhoons fell into doubt, and for a while it seemed that the entire class would go into early retirement. Perhaps in part due to the slow progress of the new "Project 935" fourth-generation SSBN, however, the TK-208 was refitted to be a testbed for a new class of submarine-launched ballistic missile. That missile, unfortunately, was cancelled, but the TK-208 has re-entered the fleet anyway and will be mated with a new missile system at a later date.
Note that Military Parade is now providing its online articles in a scanned PDF format that replicates the layout of the print edition, which is convenient.
