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> They were also quite good at processing Titanium Yep, and they had a revolutionary (arguably too early for it's time) submarine, Project 705 Lira NATO codena
by sofixa 3y ago
> They were also quite good at processing Titanium
Yep, and they had a revolutionary (arguably too early for it's time) submarine, Project 705 Lira NATO codename Alfa, that used a titanium hull and a lead-bismuth cooled fast reactor, making it significantly faster than US submarines and even faster than US torpedoes, scaring the US in the process (who bought the propaganda that this sub will be the backbone of the Soviet attack submarine fleet, instead of just a proof of concept that did work, but was expensive and hard to maintain and thus scrapped).