The Soviet Union’s Alfa-class (Project 705 Lira) submarine, introduced in 1971, was a revolutionary hunter-killer boat designed for high-speed interception. -Its two key innovations were a full ...

Summary: The Alfa-class submarine, developed by the Soviet Union during the Cold War, was an innovative but problematic vessel. Its titanium hull and unique lead-bismuth-cooled reactor allowed it ...

What You Need to Know: The Soviet Alfa-class submarine, featured in Tom Clancy’s The Hunt for Red October, was a technological marvel during the Cold War.

As for the Alfa Class's ability to detect enemy submarines and ships, the sonar systems installed were state-of-the-art, and highly capable, but their high degree of automation and smaller size ...

Russia’s Alfa Class fast attack submarine was the SR-71 of the undersea world during the Cold War. The Alfas were largely constructed of titanium, used a liquid-metal cooled nuclear powerplant ...

In fact, the fastest ever submarine to make it beyond the prototype stage, the Soviet Union's Alfa-class, boasts an underwater cruise speed of about 42-43 knots – almost as fast as some of the ...

The Nuclear Reactor was a Hot Mess—Literally . Indeed, as Peter Suciu outlined in these pages just a few weeks ago, an Alfa-class submarine designated K-64, the lead boat of this submarine class ...