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uboat.net - Fighting the U-boats - Ships But the Soviet submarine fleet was large, probably the largest one in the world at the time [1941]. The Soviet Navy consisted of 4 battleships, 10 cruisers, 59 destroyers and 218 submarines. The Soviets mostly fought in the Baltic Sea and in the Arctic Sea. uboat.net /allies/ships/soviet.htm   (665 words)

Soviet submarine K-314 - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia K-314 was a Project 671 Ерш (Yersh, meaning scorpionfish; also known by its NATO reporting name of "Victor-I" class) nuclear submarine of the Soviet Navy. On 21 March 1984, K-314 collided with the aircraft carrier USS Kitty Hawk (CV-63) in the Sea of Japan. The resulting explosion killed ten shipyard workers and released large amounts of radioactive material, contaminating an area 6km (3.6 miles) in length on the Shotovo Peninsula and the sea outside the naval yard. en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Soviet_submarine_K-314   (197 words)

Russian / Soviet Mines A total of 40,070 mines were laid by the Soviet Navy and according to Soviet estimates over 200 enemy warships, transports and auxiliary ships were sunk by these mines. It was the most widely used Soviet mine of World War II with 16,794 mines laid down during the first year of the war. Submarine launched mine with pneumatic flotation mechanism, which allowed the mine to be set at any depth and held it there for up to 10 days. www.navweaps.com /Weapons/WAMRussian_Mines.htm   (1350 words)

Docs 114-132 Soviet military doctrine for general nuclear war stresses the use of all types of forces, and not strategic forces alone, from the outset of hostilities. Soviet doctrine continues to assume the full-scale employment of theater forces from the outset of a general war, with the ultimate objective of annihilating enemy military capabilities and occupying territory. Soviet military planners are now in a position to think in terms of committing up to a few hundred nuclear weapons virtually all with yields in the kiloton range, to a typical front operation. www.state.gov /r/pa/ho/frus/kennedyjf/viii/33842.htm   (9413 words)

Victor class submarine - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia The Victor class (Russian name Type 671 Shchuka (Pike)is the general NATO classification for a type of nuclear-powered submarine that was originally put into service by the Soviet Union around 1967. These vessels were primarily designed to protect Soviet surface fleets and to attack American ballistic missile subs, should the need ever arise. Quieterthen previous Soviet submarines, these ships had 2 tubes for launching SS-N-21 or SS-N-15 missiles and Type 53 torpedoes, plus another 4 tubes for launching SS-N-16 missiles and Type 65 torpedoes. en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Victor_class_submarine   (434 words)

Submarine History 1945-2000: A Timeline of Development Submarine commanders, already too cautious, were cautioned not to waste their precious ammunition. Allied aircraft were responsible for (or directly involved in) the loss of 433; surface ships, 252; mines, 34; accidents 45, submarines 25 (only one of which happened when both hunter and victim were submerged); unknown, 15, scuttled by their own crews, 14; interned in neutral ports, 2; sunk by shore battery, 1. Soviet submarine "Komsomolets" sank in the Norwegian sea. www.submarine-history.com /NOVAfour.htm   (5134 words)

NTI: Submarine: Russia Exports However, technology transfer from the Soviet Union assisted the Chinese in the construction of their first nuclear boat in 1966, which copied but was not identical to Soviet Project 629 (NATO name Golf) class submarines. The height of Soviet submarine exports came between 1960 and 1980, when some 90 diesel boats were exported around the world. The most-exported submarine was the Project 613 (NATO name Whiskey) class boat: 61 submarines of this class were exported to eight countries. www.nti.org /db/submarines/russia/export.html   (2441 words)

How much did Japan know? | thebulletin.org Submarines had to come to the surface to fire the 42-foot-long missiles. To fire a "Blue Bird," as the missiles were called, the submarines not only had to surface and be within range of their targets, they also had to coordinate with two accompanying attack submarines that would position themselves along the missiles' flight path to transmit guidance instructions. After bombers dropped their bombs on targets in the Soviet Union or China, they were to fly to Iwo Jima, where they would be refueled, reloaded, and readied to deliver a second salvo. www.thebulletin.org /article.php?art_ofn=jf00norris   (3548 words)

The Greek Civil War, 1944-1949 Subsequently, the Germans began a withdrawal of their units from the Balkans, where these were threatened to become cut off and isolated by swift Soviet advance through the Ukraine and Romania, in the second half of that year. Soviet supplies became available only at a later stage of the war, including rifles, mortars, flame-throwers, field guns up to 105mm and anti-aircraft guns. When a Soviet representative on the United Nations Commission in Greece asked an American official what the Doctrine mean, the American replied, “It means you can’t do it.” The Russian smiled and said, “I quite understand.” The point had been made: the Doctrine simply meant “no”. www.acig.org /artman/publish/article_294.shtml   (7537 words)

Docs 133-149 The Soviets would have to consider whether it would serve their interests to risk strong US countermoves, including an ambitious US military space program, and a general intensification of the cold war. The Soviets would have to consider the possibility of a US attempt to destroy their satellite, and if the US threatened to do so, they would probably threaten retaliation against US satellites. If the Soviets do proceed with an advanced orbital system, we believe that they are more likely to seek a small force of limited effectiveness than a very large and sophisticated one. www.state.gov /r/pa/ho/frus/kennedyjf/viii/33843.htm   (8029 words)

Geology bibliography Biddle, K. T., Maher, J. C., and Carter, P. D., 1975, Channel Turbidite Sandstones in the Elk Hills Member of the Monterey Shale, in Maher, J. C., ed., Petroleum Geology of the Naval Peeetroleum Reserve No.1, Elk Hills, Kern County, California, 912 of USGS Professional Paper: United States Geological Survey, p. Christina, C. C., and Martin, K. G., 1979, The Lower Tuscaloosa trend of south- central Louisiana: "You ain't seen nothing till you've seen the Tuscaloosa": Gulf Coast Association of Geological Societies Transactions, v. Hubbert, M. K., and Rubey, W. W., 1959, Role of fluid pressure in the mechanics of overthrust faulting: Geological Society of America Bulletin, v. www.talkorigins.org /origins/biblio/geology.html   (4218 words)

Victor Class - Project 671   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04) The Victor class submarines were designed to engage enemy ballistic missile submarines, antisubmarine taskforces, and to protect friendly vessels and convoys from enemy attacks. The reactor plant of all Victor-class submarines is similar to that used with the Yankee and Delta-class Ballistic Missile Nuclear Submarines (SSBNs). The hull was lengthened by nearly 20 feet to accommodate the rafting and sound insulation for the turbine machinery. www.fas.org /man/dod-101/sys/ship/row/rus/671.htm   (1027 words)

Library of Congress / Federal Research Division / Country Studies / Area Handbook Series/ Soviet Union / Bibliography Linden, Carl A. Khrushchev and the Soviet Leadership, 1957- 1964. Religion and the Soviet State: A Report on Religious Repression in the USSR on the Occasion of the Christian Millenium. Soviet Language Policy and Education in the Southern Tier, 1950 to 1982. lcweb2.loc.gov /frd/cs/soviet_union/su_bibl.html   (11845 words)

Israel Has Sub-Based Atomic Arms Capability (washingtonpost.com) Israel has acquired three diesel submarines that it is arming with newly designed cruise missiles capable of carrying nuclear warheads, according to former Pentagon and State Department officials, potentially giving Israel a triad of land-, sea- and air-based nuclear weapons for the first time. The possible move to arm submarines with nuclear weapons suggests that the Israeli government might be increasingly concerned about efforts by Iraq and Iran to develop more accurate long-range missiles capable of knocking out Israel's existing nuclear arsenal, which is primarily land-based. Pedatzur said that faced with that threat, a submarine force armed with missiles is a reliable deterrent because Israel's enemies would not be able to locate and destroy them and thus "that it is impossible to avoid their lethal counterstrike." www.washingtonpost.com /ac2/wp-dyn/A54225-2002Jun14?.html   (1162 words)

Truman Library - Clark Clifford Oral History Soviet Union, relations with the United States, 183-186 Union of Soviet Socialists Republics, 84, 102, 104, 144, 146, 147, 152, 154, 155, 156, 168-170, 253-254 Vardamar, Commodore James K., 1-2, 3, 5, 7-8, 125 www.trumanlibrary.org /oralhist/cliford.htm   (1051 words)

Nuclear Accident Reference Pages for 1970 Through 1979   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04) The submarine surfaces and is ventilated and decontaminated, and repairs the damage unassisted. The USS Spadefish (SSN-668) is undergoing a year-long overhaul at the Norfolk Naval Shipyard in Virginia. The Soviet vessel surfaces almost immediately, but the extent of her damage is unknown. www.chris-winter.com /Digressions/Nuke-Goofs/Refs-70.html   (9561 words)

History of U.S. Naval Operations, Korea: Chapter 6, Part 4 Yet while this work went on the coastal supply line was not forgotten, two destroyers were maintained on northern blockading stations, and the attack from the sea against enemy communication centers was again extended northward by a bombardment of the iron and steel center of Chongjin. This city of 200,000, fifty miles beyond the northern limit of the blockade and an equal distance south of the Soviet frontier, is one of the key strategic positions on the western shore of the Japan Sea. On the 19th Chongjin was bombed by FEAF B-29s, and on the 20th the destroyer Lyman K. Swenson, from the northern barrier patrol post, arrived offshore and put 102 rounds into iron works, harbor installations, railroad yards, and radio stations, starting flames that were visible for 18 miles to seaward. www.history.navy.mil /books/field/ch6d.htm   (2509 words)

Chapter Five If the term peer competitor is defined in terms of equivalency to the Soviet or by the capacity to sustain global power projection, the consensus view is that a peer competitor cannot develop before 2025. However, Russian (former Soviet) doctrine has always emphasized that the use of special forces, and extensive training of small numbers of highly effective personnel is quite supportable. The collapse of the Soviet Navy through the dissolution of the Soviet Union has allowed U.S. naval forces to shift to a landward focus because there is no longer a fleet capable of challenging the United States in the open oceans. www.ndu.edu /inss/mcnair/mcnair63/63_05.html   (18065 words)

TORPEDO JUNCTION Military Books / Submarine Book Store WWII Sub Books World War 2 Submarine Books Fluckey's story of his five patrols in command of the Barb, for one of which he was awarded the Congressional Medal of Honor. The United States Submarine Force is celebrated for the first time in a definitive, magnificently illustrated, large-format book published with the Naval Submarine League. A massive and authoritative history of the planning, design, and construction of the German submarine force from the experimental types of the 19th century, through two world wars, to the modern submarines of the German Federal Navy. www.sonic.net /~books   (2115 words)

Hansen   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04) The Soviet historian V. Belli, writing in the July 1940 issue of Morskoi sbornik (the preeminent Soviet naval journal), declared that “the struggle for Scandinavia [was] above all [a German campaign] to gain a favorable strategic position,” concluding with the observation that “a favorable strategic position [was an essential] element of command of the sea.” The distant blockade of German ports by the Royal Navy was never broken by the German submarine offensive; British command of the sea, though challenged, remained intact. On 17 October 1939, the Soviets offered the use of Zapadnaya Bay, which empties into the Motovskiy Gulf: “In this bay, Germany may do whatever she wishes: she may carry out whatever projects she could consider necessary. www.nwc.navy.mil /press/Review/2005/autumn/art5-a05.htm   (10592 words)

UCLA - Earth and Space Sciences - Ray Ingersoll, Publications Graham, S.A., and Ingersoll, R.V., 1981, Field trip road log: Great Valley Group submarine fan facies and Sacramento Valley forearc gas province (part I), Sacramento to Cache Creek and return, in Graham, S.A.(ed.), Field guide to the Mesozoic-Cenozoic convergent margin of northern California: Pacific Section, American Association of Petroleum Geologists, p. Ingersoll, R.V., Craig, P.A., Geslin, J.K., Hathaway, G.M., Holland, K.S., Large, E.A., Murphy, M.A., Jr., and Rumelhart, P.E., 1992, Guidebook to the Mesozoic convergent margin of central California (ESSSO Guidebook 14) (1992 fall fieldtrip of the Department of Earth and Space Sciences): University of California, Los Angeles, 53p. Ingersoll, R.V., Ratajeski, K., Glazner, A.F., and Cloos, M., 1999, Mesozoic convergent margin of central California, in Wagner, D.L., and Graham, S.A. (eds.), Geologic field trips in northern California [Centennial meeting of the Cordilleran Section of the Geological Society of America]: California Division of Mines and Geology Special Publication 119, p. www.ess.ucla.edu /faculty/ingersoll/publications.asp   (3414 words)

AII POW-MIA - Sino-Soviet Relations This is the view of Oleg Troyanovskii, the former Soviet ambassador and foreign policy adviser to Khrushchev, who accompanied the Soviet leader during his trip to China in 1958, a few weeks before Gromyko’s visit. He also emphasized that China’s debt to the Soviet Union should be reduced in any case as compensation for the large amount of industry that the Soviet Union extracted from Manchuria in 1945-46. Mao himself said he was “deeply touched by [the Soviet Union’s] boundless devotion to the principles of Marxism-Leninism and internationalism” and wanted to “convey heartfelt gratitude” to Khrushchev for his support during the Taiwan Straits crisis. www.aiipowmia.com /koreacw/twncrisisnotes.html   (7244 words)

Chapter X: Quadrant - Shaping the Patterns: August 1943 He did not believe, he stated, that the USSR desired to take over the Balkan states but rather that the USSR wished to "establish kinship with other Slavic people." He assured the U.S. military leaders that he himself was opposed to Balkan operations. Serious reverses for the Allies in the Pacific or for the Soviet Union in Europe might also lead to a shift by Japan to the offensive. Not only were the questions of advance in Italy and of eastern Mediterranean operations to rise again, but firm agreement on prospectively one of the most important links between the European and Mediterranean theaters-a southern France operation-still had to be reached. www.army.mil /cmh/books/wwii/sp1943-44/chapter10.htm   (12505 words)

LIPs Bibliography Ricciardi, K., and Abbott, D., 1996, Increased mantle convection during the mid-Cretaceous: A comparative study of mantle potential temperature, J Geophys Res-Solid Earth, 101(B4): 8673-8684. Righter, K., Carmichael, I.S.E., Becker, T.A., and Renne, P.R., 1995, Pliocene-Quaternary volcanism and faulting at the intersection of the Gulf of California and the Mexican Volcanic Belt, Geological Society of America Bulletin, 107:612-626. Rocha-Campos, A.C., Cordani, U.G., Kawashita, K., Sonoki, H.M., and Sonoki, J.K., 1988, Age of Paran‡ flood volcanism, in E.M. Piccirillo and A.J. Melfi (eds.), The Mesozoic flood volcanism of the Paran‡ Basin, 23-45, University of Sao Paulo, Sao Paulo. www.ig.utexas.edu /research/projects/lips/biblio/lips.biblio3.htm   (14525 words)

Planning a Ballistic Missile Defense System of Systems And Point D is a large, sophisticated and geographically distributed threat, comparable to the current Russian threat (assuming missile-bearing submarines are on patrol) and a possible future Chinese threat (also with submarine-based and/or land-mobile missiles). This matter was discussed in the treaty negotiations and in verification negotiations in which the United States complained about suspicious Soviet tests of the SA-5 air defense system. Davis, Paul K., David C. Gompert, and Richard Kugler, "Adaptiveness in National Defense: The Basis of a New Framework," Santa Monica, Calif.: RAND, IP-155, 1996. www.rand.org /pubs/issue_papers/IP181/index2.html   (9514 words)

The United States and the Chinese Nuclear Program, 1960-1964 Although there is no record that Rusk met with Soviet ambassador Anatoly Dobrynin, McGeorge Bundy did meet with the ambassador at the end of the month. Those submarines could carry three ballistic missiles with 350 nautical mile range and operate out to 4850 nautical miles. The memo explores the U.S. ability to monitor the movements of such a submarine, the political and military impact of operational Chinese "G"-class submarines (including catalytic war), and possible U.S. response such as blowing the submarine out of the water. www.gwu.edu /~nsarchiv/NSAEBB/NSAEBB38   (3628 words)

Designations of Soviet and Russian Military Aircraft and Missiles The NATO uses so-called "Reporting Names" when referring to aircraft and missiles of FSU (Former Soviet Union) states and the People's Republic of China. The code naming system was originally used for Soviet types only, but was later also used for Chinese aircraft and missiles. The DOD assigned preliminary codes to newly discovered Soviet or Chinese aircraft, which had not yet been identified. www.designation-systems.net /non-us/soviet.html   (2499 words)

Designations Of Soviet and Russian Military Aircraft and Missiles The Western designation system for Soviet boosters was devised in the early 1960s by Charles Sheldon of the U.S. Library of Congress. It is based on allocation of letters to families of launchers, and variants are designated by suffix numbers and letters. This practice has been discontinued, and today training aircraft are designated as variants of the combat aircraft (e.g. orbat.com /site/andreas/russia.html   (1159 words)

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