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I believe the name is from a cartoon character, who is made out of balls: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1F_hX-QjDQw https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1F_hX-QjD

• close04 7y ago
  A better diagram of the sub here: https://cdn.arstechnica.net/wp-content/uploads/2019/07/Ru_Losharik_Cutaway940.jpg https://cdn.arstechnica.net/wp-content/uploads/2019/07/Ru_Lo... basically a series of interconnected bathyspheres with a hydrodynamic shell over them.
  • petre 7y ago
    So basically personnel can't access the reactor and engine compartments from the life support units, the sub has to surface. Here's a bigger version of the same diagram with readable text: http://www.hisutton.com/images/Ru_Losharik_Cutaway.jpg http://www.hisutton.com/images/Ru_Losharik_Cutaway.jpg Skegs, hydraulic manipulator, no weapons. It's clearly ment to tamper with undersea cables.
    • iguy 7y ago
      Are any of these details more than speculation? I had the impression that the best information was some not-so-clear pictures which happened to catch it on the surface, plus the admission a few days ago that it is in fact nuclear powered, and had a suspiciously high-ranking crew. I agree that tampering with cables seems like the obvious reason for the military to go super-deep. With recovering sunken things made by your adversary a close second. And in the mid-1980s, they were much better at titanium than at video cameras.