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00:00:00 - Introduction to Nuclear Submarines
00:01:25 - Risks and Incidents in Submarine History
00:02:42 - Secrecy, Design, and Soviet Advances
00:03:59 - Akula Project and Strategic Might
00:06:45 - Borei Class and New Generation
00:08:38 - Multipurpose Submarines, Technology, and Global Players
00:11:48 - Submarine Generations and Modernization
00:13:51 - Nuclear Threat and Submarines' Future
👉 This channel was created in collaboration with @kramola_online
00:00:00 - Introduction to Nuclear Submarines
00:01:25 - Risks and Incidents in Submarine History
00:02:42 - Secrecy, Design, and Soviet Advances
00:03:59 - Akula Project and Strategic Might
00:06:45 - Borei Class and New Generation
00:08:38 - Multipurpose Submarines, Technology, and Global Players
00:11:48 - Submarine Generations and Modernization
00:13:51 - Nuclear Threat and Submarines' Future
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00:00On missions, she can't be seen and is nearly impossible to track.
00:04She can dive 300 meters and remain submerged for six months
00:09before firing missiles that can travel thousands of kilometers
00:12and destroy targets the size of a country.
00:15A nuclear submarine?
00:17A true weapon of the apocalypse, possessed only by the most powerful countries.
00:22Others simply can't afford it, neither financially nor technologically.
00:26The crazy race between developers from the Soviet Union and the United States of America
00:31resulted in the most intense military competition in history.
00:35Never before had humanity poured so much money into developing means of killing the enemy.
00:42Nobel laureates, the smartest people of their time, politicians, and society
00:47all were focused on creating the weapons of the future.
00:50The atomic underwater monsters produced in the Soviet Union at that time
00:54still roam the depths of the world's oceans,
00:57striking fear into foreign intelligence agencies
01:00that are desperately trying to locate Russian submarines.
01:04What are nuclear submarines capable of?
01:06And why are the scientists working on their development
01:09protected by special security services?
01:12Watch until the end to find out who leads in nuclear submarine fleets.
01:17And if humanity could survive if just one submarine launched a nuclear missile at an enemy.
01:25The reputation of submarines is hard to call perfect.
01:28Their ability to secretly travel thousands of kilometers has long attracted criminals.
01:34Colombian drug lords have adapted their private submarines
01:37to transport illegal substances between countries.
01:40And right now, dozens of such submarines are plowing through the ocean depths,
01:45carrying illegal cargo that can't be delivered any other way.
01:49Other countries' submarine technologies are literally being hunted for.
01:53In the 1970s, the CIA spent $350 million to build a special drilling ship.
02:00At the time, it was an enormous sum.
02:03The ship was said to be gathering ocean floor minerals for science.
02:06But in reality, it was actually raising a Soviet submarine that had previously sunk in that area.
02:12Nuclear submarines, or nuclear submarines, sink quite often.
02:16In total, since 1955, nine nuclear submarines have sunk,
02:21five Soviet, two Russian, and two American.
02:24By this dubious measure, you could say the score is 7 to 2 in favor of Russia.
02:29Some submarines are lying on the seabed with their nuclear arsenal still on board.
02:34It's impossible to recover them.
02:36To be precise, you could try, but there's a risk of destroying a couple of continents.
02:42The infamous Kursk of Project 949-A Ante became the most well-known disaster of the Russian Navy,
02:49and almost the only accident that happened due to weapon malfunctions.
02:54Most often, the cause of submarine sinkings is problems with the propulsion system.
02:59People in the know say that on board British submarines, there are letters of last resort.
03:04They state what needs to be done in the event that the country's government is destroyed by a nuclear attack
03:10from the enemy.
03:11Such letters are destroyed as soon as a new person takes office and gives new instructions.
03:17Silent atomic predators are surrounded by myths, unsurprising given the immense secrecy in their production and use.
03:27Journalists are kept at arm's length from such facilities, but sometimes, on special occasions, the veil of secrecy is lifted.
03:34In honor of the centenary of designer Sergei Kovalev's birth, Russian journalists were allowed for the first time on board
03:42the heavy cruiser,
03:4320 Severstal, one of the nuclear strategic cruisers of Project 941 Akula, which was created under the guidance of the
03:51brilliant developer.
03:51The media learned little, but the information was more than enough to grasp the destructive power of submarines of this
03:58class.
03:59The top-secret Rubin Central Design Bureau began developing the heavy nuclear-powered strategic missile submarine cruiser in the 1970s.
04:08At the same time, the KGB monitored the developers and their families, regularly uncovering Western intelligence agents who attempted to
04:18contact nuclear engineers and obtain state secrets.
04:22The engineers' expertise was more valuable than money, and foreigners could never purchase it.
04:27At that time, Soviet engineers created a true doomsday weapon, a three-stage solid-fuel ballistic missile.
04:34The R-39A single missile like this is capable of delivering 10 warheads each, with a yield of 100 kilotons,
04:42to a distance of up to 10,000 kilometers.
04:45Moreover, the Akula has 20 missile silos, each containing 10 nuclear warheads.
04:51The combined destructive power of 200 warheads is 1,400 times greater than the bomb dropped on Hiroshima.
04:58How can you defend against a hurricane of missiles, each one an Armageddon?
05:03It's a mystery.
05:04No wonder submarines from this project terrified NATO leadership.
05:09These missiles were very bulky, and the Akula was created specifically for them.
05:14A large submarine was needed, capable of carrying super-heavy weapons and firing salvos.
05:21173 meters long and as tall as a nine-story building, this isn't a boat.
05:26It's a small city.
05:27The main advantage of the submarine is its ability to travel underwater at 50 kilometers per hour, while remaining almost
05:35completely silent.
05:37Six submarines were built.
05:39Six submarines were built.
05:39Only three remain.
05:40They made it into the Guinness Book of Records as the largest nuclear submarines on Earth.
05:46The anti-sonar rubber coating alone on them weighs 800 tons.
05:50That's more than the entire weight of the American nuclear submarine.
05:54An-en-yee-an...
05:56Far.
05:58One with its hull, it can break through ice up to two and a half meters thick.
06:02The Akulas are so large, they needed a special mooring line, missile loading system, and unique transport vehicles.
06:11These ships didn't serve for long.
06:14Their operation was astronomically expensive.
06:17Severstal is currently in reserve, awaiting a disposal decision.
06:21The top-secret shipyard's general director said Project 941 submarines are now obsolete, due to technological advances.
06:30Currently, the crew on Severstal has been reduced, but the ship's life is being maintained.
06:35There is a round-the-clock armed watch, and fire safety and unsinkability are being monitored.
06:41The water reactors, of course, have been brought to a safe state.
06:45The Barays have replaced the Akulas.
06:47Their story started in 96, when the first new type submarine was laid down in Severodvinsk.
06:54Unstable fleet funding in the 90s delayed the submarine's construction timeline.
06:59The first of the new class of nuclear submarines was Yuri Dolgoruky, which joined the Northern Fleet in 2013.
07:07Currently, the Russian Navy already has five submarines of the 955 Boray project,
07:13soon after Yuri Dolgoruky, Aleksandr Nemetsky, and Vladimir Monomok joined, and they are serving in the Pacific Ocean.
07:21Kinyas Vladimir and Nyas Oleg, who were recently added to the list of Russian nuclear submarines named after former rulers,
07:29joined their counterparts.
07:30In many ways, the Barays outperformed their rival, the American Ohio-class, which forms the core of the United States'
07:37strategic submarine fleet.
07:38The Ohio-class dives to 365 meters, 35 meters less than the Russian underwater monster.
07:45A product of domestic engineering, the design system outperforms in both speed and duration of autonomous navigation.
07:53As an element of the nuclear triad, the Boray-class submarines are built to destroy.
07:58The nuclear-powered submarines are armed with 16 of the latest solid-fuel Bulava ballistic missiles.
08:04Each of them carries 10 nuclear warheads, with a yield of up to 150 kilotons.
08:10With a single salvo, the missile cruiser can destroy any city on Earth, regardless of its size.
08:16There won't be any problem with a small country either.
08:19The creators don't reveal the Boray's technical features, only cautiously stating the new ships have several advantages.
08:28Well, let's take their word for it, and hope that sailors will never have to test the capabilities of these
08:33super submarines in practice.
08:35That would be more reassuring for all of humanity.
08:37There are also multi-purpose submarines.
08:41They perform other tasks, destroying ships, other submarines, tactical targets on land, and gathering intelligence.
08:49The most notable of these submarines is the American Seawolf, known for its high stealth and deadly weaponry.
08:58One such submarine carries up to 50 Harpoon or Tomahawk missiles.
09:03It is so expensive that even the bottomless United States defense budget could only afford three of these submarines.
09:10The Russian Navy has a classified missile system called SCIF, which can remain autonomously on the ocean floor for many
09:17years and, when commanded, strike a designated target by launching missiles that travel at hypersonic speeds.
09:24This isn't a submarine, so we left SCIF out of this video.
09:29There is almost no information about the system on the internet, so if you are interested in learning about this
09:34unique seabed-based missile, which, by the way, is a nuclear weapon, let us know in the comments.
09:40Modern nuclear submarines can silently roam underwater for months, invisible to their enemies.
09:47They are built to remain silent, providing strategic threat for the state.
09:52At any moment, day or night, they are ready to plunge the enemy into the chaos that follows a devastating
09:59nuclear strike.
10:00By the way, if you go by movies, especially American ones, you might think that submarine wars happen regularly.
10:08Of course, that's not true.
10:10In history, there is only one confirmed case when two submarines fought underwater.
10:15Most of the missions that nuclear submarines take on are related to long-term covert presence near enemy shores.
10:22Of course, the mission should start from a secret location.
10:25Otherwise, the submarine could be tracked.
10:27That's why submarine repairs happen at special, closed bases as large as a metropolis.
10:33The most important facilities at these bases are located deep underground in special bunkers.
10:39Initially, submarines were diesel-powered.
10:42But at the dawn of atomic research, scientists quickly realized that the enormous amount of energy released by splitting the
10:49atom could be used to generate electricity.
10:52The reactor enables high-speed travel for long periods.
10:57Refueling of next-generation submarines is required only once every 25 years, which eliminates the need for regular surfacing to
11:05replenish fuel supplies.
11:07The only drawback of these vessels is their very high cost.
11:11If you want to buy one to swim in your local pond, be ready to spend several billion dollars.
11:18Experts say rising oil prices could make nuclear submarines more economical than traditionally powered ships.
11:25Americans and British no longer use non-nuclear submarines, while Russia's fleet is mixed.
11:32In fact, only five countries have nuclear submarines.
11:36Along with the United States and Russia, the elite club also has France, England, and China.
11:41The rest use diesel-electric submarines, or don't have a submarine fleet at all.
11:47Nuclear submarine predators evolved gradually.
11:51The development of the first generation was experimental, and the submarines themselves were used to test out design solutions in
11:58combat conditions.
11:59The submarines of the next generation differed only slightly.
12:03Finding inspiration in how nature solved the problem of moving underwater, engineers copied fish fins by installing their metal counterparts
12:11on the sides of the submarine.
12:13The best minds of that time worked hard to optimize the hull and increase underwater speed.
12:18Indeed, one of the submarines of this generation is a complement to the efforts to create powerful underwater atomic predators
12:28with their double hulls.
12:32The classic hull shape, satisfied.
12:47Resistance, an innovative engineering solution, also enhanced crew quality of life.
12:53Building such vessels is not cheap even for superpowers, so many third-generation submarines are still in service.
13:00Well now, welcome to the present.
13:02The fourth generation is the most modern.
13:05These submarines began to appear in the early 90s, which, in historical terms, was just yesterday.
13:11Nuclear submarines received a new type of sound-absorbing coating, composite materials, and long-life reactors.
13:18Since third-generation submarines suffered several disasters, a key design feature of fourth-generation submarines became their own autonomous rescue
13:27capsules and a fully isolated reactor.
13:30Modern nuclear submarines are known for their extremely low noise levels.
13:34Engineers managed to fit 50 cruise missiles into American submarines.
13:39Modern deep-sea predators are equipped with universal launchers, with drum magazines for launching torpedoes and cruise missiles.
13:48The fifth generation currently exists only on paper.
13:51The country that first develops these monsters will obviously begin to dominate underwater.
13:55The national interest has published its list of the world's five most dangerous combat submarines.
14:02The list included only submarines currently in service or set to be commissioned soon.
14:08Only nuclear submarines from Russia and the United States made it into the top five, with Russian submarines taking up
14:15most of the list.
14:15The Bore-class submarines have been recognized by experts as some of the most intimidating.
14:21The American authors of the ranking also acknowledge their own submarine fleet's achievements.
14:26They called the Ohio-class submarines the most deadly nuclear submarines in the United States.
14:32Experts agree on one thing.
14:34If even a single missile is launched from a nuclear submarine, humanity will, at best, be thrown back centuries as
14:40a result of the ensuing nuclear catastrophe.
14:42At worst, humanity will simply cease to exist as a species, and everything will look pretty much like what you
14:49see in these shots.
14:55But maybe this is actually a test of our intelligence?
14:59Or is it that, even now, there's no point in mentioning humanity's intelligence at all?
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