Use of Weapons is my favorite book, and this edition may be well made, but I could not get past its cover - a Soviet submarine from the fifties, why? What does

Use of Weapons is my favorite book, and this edition may be well made, but I could not get past its cover - a Soviet submarine from the fifties, why? What does this have to do with the story? This seems like the publisher just did not care. Or is there some explanation in the foreword?