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SPECIFICATIONS
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| MISSILES SLBM: 20 Makeyev SS-N-20 (RSM 52/3M20) Sturgeon; three-stage solid fuel rocket; stellar inertial guidance to 8,300 km (4,500 n miles); warhead nuclear 10 MIRV each of 200 kT; CEP 500 m. 2 missiles fired from the first of class in 15 seconds. Being modified to take Grom SS-N-28, which has improved accuracy. SAM: There are suggestions that this class may have an SA-N-8 SAM capability. |
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| TORPEDOES 4 - 25 in (630 mm) and 2 - 21 in (533 mm). Combination of torpedoes (see table at front of section). The weapon load includes a total of 22 torpedoes and A/S missiles. |
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| MINES Could be carried in lieu of torpedoes. COUNTERMEASURES WEAPONS CONTROL |
 RADARS Surface search: Snoop Pair; I/J-band. |
| SONARS Shark Gill; hull-mounted; passive/active search and attack; low/medium frequency. Shark Rib flank array; passive; low frequency. Mouse Roar; hull-mounted; active attack; high frequency. Pelamida towed array; passive search; very low frequency. |
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| MODERNISATION The class is being modernized to take an SS-N-28 missile, which has improved accuracy. This is a very slow program starting with TK 208, which is planned to complete in 1997. |
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| STRUCTURE This is the largest type of submarine ever built. Two separate 8.5-m diameter hulls covered by a single outer free-flood hull with anechoic Cluster Guard tiles plus separate 6 m diameter pressure-tight compartments in the fin and fore-ends. There is a 1.2-m separation between the outer and inner hulls along the sides. The unique features of Typhoon are her enormous size and the fact that the missile tubes are mounted forward of the fin. The positioning of the launch tubes mean a fully integrated weapons area in the bow section leaving space abaft the fin for the provision of two nuclear reactors, one in each hull. The fin configuration indicates a designed capability to break through ice cover up to 3 m thick; the retractable forward hydroplanes, the rounded hull and the shape of the fin are all related to under-ice operations. Diving depth, 1,000-ft (300 m). |
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| OPERATIONAL Strategic targets are within range from anywhere in the world. Two VLF/ELF communication buoys are fitted. VLF navigation system for under-ice operations. Pert Spring SATCOM mast, Cod Eye radiometric sextant and Kremmny 2 IFF. All are based in the Northern Fleet at Litsa Guba. TK 17 damaged by fire during a missile loading accident in 1992 but the damage has been repaired. A refit cycle started in 1994 with TK 208. The second pair are non-operational awaiting refits. |
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