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The inner hull supposedly is made of titanium, the outer of steel. "The Soviet Navy would have to “treat and/or derust each Typhoon’s massive steel outer hull
by ericd 6y ago
The inner hull supposedly is made of titanium, the outer of steel.
"The Soviet Navy would have to “treat and/or derust each Typhoon’s massive steel outer hull and Titanium inner hulls. Russia may have lost the highly expensive industrial capability to work Titanium for submarines.”" - https://nationalinterest.org/blog/buzz/why-russia-packing-its-old-typhoon-class-submarines-hundreds-cruise-missiles-102302 https://nationalinterest.org/blog/buzz/why-russia-packing-it...
- whistlesnort 6y agoEh... the Soviets weren't giving us tours back in the 80s. Alls we had to go on was the field data and the intelligence. Of course, I was the assistant to the coffee maker in those days. Nobody shared poop with me because my clearance wasn't high enough. When I asked the engineers why they were working on software for a dual strike they said the Typhoon was tough to kill. The lab was always working on ways to counter a threat. I was just a junior engineer on one team. The Navy has a lot of money.
- ericd 6y agoYeah, and I’m actually saying you were right, they were made of titanium. I imagine that maybe we knew that a lot of titanium was going into making it, but maybe not specifically which parts.