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From: malloy@nprdc.navy.mil (Sean Malloy)
Newsgroups: sci.military
Subject: Re: Typhoon Submarine & Janes All the World's....
Message-ID: <1990Jun28.030204.20134@cbnews.att.com>
Date: 28 Jun 90 03:02:04 GMT
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From: malloy@nprdc.navy.mil (Sean Malloy)

In article <1990Jun27.021201.1835@cbnews.att.com> bxr307@csc.anu.oz writes:
>	I would have also thought, not only did the placing of the missile
>silos forward of the sail make the Typhoon class unique, but also the
>arrangement of the twin pressure hulls, side-by-side, rather than one-above-the
>-other which is the norm in Western submarine designs.

Until some hard data becomes available, the internal arrangement of
the pressure hull(s) in the Typhoon are a matter of some conjecture.
Also, the current conjecture is that there are _three_ pressure hulls --
two Delta-class pressure hulls side-by-side with a smaller pressure
hull above and between them under the sail (explaining the bulge at
the base of the sail) containing the bridge/CIC spaces.


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