An Oscar II attack submarine, armed with 24 cruise missiles P-700 ("Granit") with conventional or nuclear warheads. 4x650-mm and 2x533-mm torpedo tubes with 28 torpedoes or ASW rockets.
Sunk tragically in the Barents Sea in 2000.
I was amazed when I read cause of the explosion sinking the Kursk was hydrogen peroxide fuel leaking from poorly-maintained torpedoes.
I thought electric propulsion would have been used back then. I mean, Germany had nothing but trouble with hydrogen peroxide. Yes, it was efficient fuel, but it was extremely reactive. Fueling a "Komet" was exponentially more hazardous than flying it.
Now I need to read up on "long lance" torpedoes used by Japan in WW2. I *think* they used liquid oxygen. SW
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