Updated, originally posted 14th Sept 2014
Not content to rain death and destruction from the skies with his bombers, mankind invented I.C.B.Ms which could be hidden beneath the waves in giant submarines. For a time these sea monsters roamed the world's oceans ensuring an uneasy peace. But mankind was made up of two opposing factions who sought advantage over each other. One was called the Soviet Union and was led by a man named Leonid Brezhnev who learned through his spies that his submarines were not as good as his enemy's. Paranoid and distraught, he sought a way to regain a mad equilibrium. And so he built even bigger sea monsters which could live under the polar ice caps where they were safe from his enemies' hunter-killers. He called these new submarines the TYPHOON
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Seismic_Survey_Sub
Updated with Cutaway. Originally posted May 21 2017
Russian Seismic Survey Submarine for Arctic Operations
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Akademik-Aleksandrov
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Husky_SSN
Updated, originally posted April-1 2017.
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