INSIDE TYPHOON CLASS SUBMARINE SKIN

A recent severe storm that passed through San Diego, tore away portions of the metal fabric and exposes additional bare metal to rust.

INSIDE TYPHOON CLASS SUBMARINE SKIN

You may notice accelerating, degradation of the outer skin of the Russian Foxtrot Class attack submarine B-39. This theatrical professionally produced live action exhibit about a close call with nuclear war the Museum installed on the sub is intended to soon be available live as a web-based experience at. Foxtrot’s popularity among visitors influenced the Museum’s decision to extend the To the Brink of War exhibition, an immersive video, light and sound production shown daily inside the Foxtrot. Maritime Museum of San Diego originally installed the Foxtrot as an interactive two-year temporary exhibition in 2005. Russian Foxtrot Class attack submarine B-39 closed. They played a part in many of the Cold War’s most tense moments including the Cuban Missile Crisis. The Soviet and then Russian Federation’s navies deployed these submarines from the mid 1950s through the early 1990s. B-39 carried a crew of 78 and could dive to a depth of 985 feet before threatening the integrity of her nickel steel pressure hull. Low-tech but lethal, she carried 24 torpedoes while she was on patrol-some capable of delivering low-yield nuclear warheads. Soviet Project 641 submarines, classified as “Foxtrot” by NATO, are essentially larger and more powerful versions of German World War II era U-boats. Now, less than 20 years after the collapse of the Berlin Wall signaled the end of the Cold War, she is berthed on San Diego Bay amidst her former adversaries. B-39, assigned to the Soviet Pacific fleet, undoubtedly stalked many of the U.S. and NATO warships throughout the world’s oceans. 300 feet in length and displacing more than 2000 tons, B-39 is among the largest conventionally powered submarines ever built. One of a fleet of diesel electric submarines the Soviet Navy called “Project 641,” B-39 was commissioned in the early 1970s and served on active duty for more than 20 years.

Inside typhoon class submarine