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A visit to Wikipedia actually confirms this story (I was sure it was a joke before): http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Typhoon_class_submarine#Description_and_histor
by Luc 16y ago
A visit to Wikipedia actually confirms this story (I was sure it was a joke before): http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Typhoon_class_submarine#Description_and_history http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Typhoon_class_submarine#Descrip...
"Typhoon class submarines feature multiple pressure hulls that simplify internal design while making the vessel much wider than a normal submarine. In the main body of the sub, two Delta class pressure hulls lie parallel with a third, smaller pressure hull above them (which protrudes just below the sail), and two other pressure hulls for torpedoes and steering gear."
- sdfx 16y agoIn the discussion page of this article is a link to a schematic drawing - although it's obviously hard to tell how accurate this depiction is: http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Typhoon_class_Schema.svg http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Typhoon_class_Schema....
- td 16y agoOn a tangent: I wonder why wikipedia doesn't list the articles on boats by their original Russian names, but uses their NATO calling instead. Now you have the article "Typhoon sub" which is actually about Akula class submarines, and the article "Akula class submarine", which is about a submarine the Russians call "Shchuka".
- StuffMaster 16y agoI don't think the USSR published the names, so whatever NATO called things became the de facto name for the rest of the world.
- jacquesm 16y agoPart of that is that wikipedia is US centric (even it it tries to be NPOV in things like names this definitely leaks through), another part is that the majority of the editors would not be able to verify source in Cyrillic. The same happens happens with the names of towns and of people all over wikipedia so it's no surprise to see it happen with the names of classes of submarines.