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Ported to OBJ from the models created by Lazarus Starkweather for Microsoft's Combat Flight Simulator 2 (CFS2). Originals created in SketchUp by Trimble Software. Preview picture ported in XNALara XPS. NO MODEL DOWNLOAD.

Here's some suitable mood music to read this one by:

www.youtube.com/watch?v=YEt41b…

At 48,000 tons and as big as super large cruisers or small battleships, the Soviet Navy's Typhoon class nuclear powered ballistic missile submarines (NATO code name) remain the largest submarines ever built by any nation up to the present day (early 2021). They first entered service in 1981 and were contemporaries of the later Deltas, although they were were designed with a different mission purpose in mind. Whereas the Deltas were first strike SSBNs, Typhoon was designed to sit out a full scale nuclear war hidden somewhere deep in the ocean or under one of the polar ice caps, and thus provide the Soviet Union with an available fallback second strike capability. Their size was required for this purpose, in order to be able to house both 20 SS-N-20 Sturgeon ballistic missiles (the largest submarine-launched ones yet built) and surprisingly roomy accommodations with ample food and supply storage for its crew of 160 to remain submerged with their boat for a minimum of four months or up to half-a-year under emergency conditions. Their hulls were built very strong (and with titanium) for icebreaking, and their forward-mounted ballistic missile launch tubes give them a very unusual and unique appearance. They also have multiple pressure hulls for increased survivability, with only the World War II era Japanese I-400 sen toku class coming close in this regard. Seven were ordered but only six built due to changing priorities within the Soviet Navy, and the subsequent collapse of the Soviet Union in the early 1990s nixed any future possibilities at either continuing or improving on the design. As I write this only one remains in active service with the successor Russian Federation, with two in reserve and the rest scrapped during the late 2000s. These last three Typhoons are scheduled to be scrapped as soon as more units of the newer conventionally designed Borei class enter service to replace them. To find out more about the Soviet Typhoon class submarines, follow the link below.

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Typhoon-…

One word: monster. That's the best way to describe this beast. Typhoon is to the world of submarines what battleships used to be to surface actions in naval warfare. Like the battleship, however, the day of the Typhoon has come and gone. While it lasted, however ... man, oh man.

This is a straight port of the original model, with my only changes being to alter and resize some of the textures so they would work better with the model ported to the common OBJ format. The archive actually includes two different versions of Typhoon, as I knew some of you would ask for the second (grin). On the lower right of the preview piccy is my OBJ port of Mr. Starkweather's CG recreation of Typhoon as it really was in real life. On the upper left is the fictionalized version of Typhoon as depicted by author Tom Clancy both in his best-selling novel The Hunt for Red October and the subsequent feature film made from it. Only the barest details of Typhoon were known at the time that Mr. Clancy wrote his book, so what wasn't known had to be extrapolated from existing data from other contemporary Soviet subs back then. Hence some of the design differences. It's also longer than the real Typhoon turned out to be because it carries more ballistic missiles as was originally reported. Like I said I knew some of you would ask for the fictional Krasiny Oktabyr as depicted in the movie, and that's why BOTH models are included in the archive. Some resizing may be required.

These are not my models. All I did was port them to OBJ and tweak them as described above. Please credit Lazarus Starkweather for the original efforts. You do not have to credit me for my part.

For non-profit, non-commercial use only.

Description

Ported to OBJ from the models created by Lazarus Starkweather for Microsoft's Combat Flight Simulator 2 (CFS2). Originals created in SketchUp by Trimble Software. Preview picture ported in XNALara XPS. NO MODEL DOWNLOAD.

Here's some suitable mood music to read this one by:

www.youtube.com/watch?v=YEt41b…

At 48,000 tons and as big as super large cruisers or small battleships, the Soviet Navy's Typhoon class nuclear powered ballistic missile submarines (NATO code name) remain the largest submarines ever built by any nation up to the present day (early 2021). They first entered service in 1981 and were contemporaries of the later Deltas, although they were were designed with a different mission purpose in mind. Whereas the Deltas were first strike SSBNs, Typhoon was designed to sit out a full scale nuclear war hidden somewhere deep in the ocean or under one of the polar ice caps, and thus provide the Soviet Union with an available fallback second strike capability. Their size was required for this purpose, in order to be able to house both 20 SS-N-20 Sturgeon ballistic missiles (the largest submarine-launched ones yet built) and surprisingly roomy accommodations with ample food and supply storage for its crew of 160 to remain submerged with their boat for a minimum of four months or up to half-a-year under emergency conditions. Their hulls were built very strong (and with titanium) for icebreaking, and their forward-mounted ballistic missile launch tubes give them a very unusual and unique appearance. They also have multiple pressure hulls for increased survivability, with only the World War II era Japanese I-400 sen toku class coming close in this regard. Seven were ordered but only six built due to changing priorities within the Soviet Navy, and the subsequent collapse of the Soviet Union in the early 1990s nixed any future possibilities at either continuing or improving on the design. As I write this only one remains in active service with the successor Russian Federation, with two in reserve and the rest scrapped during the late 2000s. These last three Typhoons are scheduled to be scrapped as soon as more units of the newer conventionally designed Borei class enter service to replace them. To find out more about the Soviet Typhoon class submarines, follow the link below.

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Typhoon-…

One word: monster. That's the best way to describe this beast. Typhoon is to the world of submarines what battleships used to be to surface actions in naval warfare. Like the battleship, however, the day of the Typhoon has come and gone. While it lasted, however ... man, oh man.

This is a straight port of the original model, with my only changes being to alter and resize some of the textures so they would work better with the model ported to the common OBJ format. The archive actually includes two different versions of Typhoon, as I knew some of you would ask for the second (grin). On the lower right of the preview piccy is my OBJ port of Mr. Starkweather's CG recreation of Typhoon as it really was in real life. On the upper left is the fictionalized version of Typhoon as depicted by author Tom Clancy both in his best-selling novel The Hunt for Red October and the subsequent feature film made from it. Only the barest details of Typhoon were known at the time that Mr. Clancy wrote his book, so what wasn't known had to be extrapolated from existing data from other contemporary Soviet subs back then. Hence some of the design differences. It's also longer than the real Typhoon turned out to be because it carries more ballistic missiles as was originally reported. Like I said I knew some of you would ask for the fictional Krasiny Oktabyr as depicted in the movie, and that's why BOTH models are included in the archive. Some resizing may be required.

These are not my models. All I did was port them to OBJ and tweak them as described above. Please credit Lazarus Starkweather for the original efforts. You do not have to credit me for my part.

For non-profit, non-commercial use only.