The Soviets introduced this submarine class in 1967 to counter the thermonuclear Polaris missiles used by the Americans in their SSBNs. Although the K-219 was at the cutting edge of Soviet ...

The Borei-class submarines were designed to accommodate “the new submarine-launched ballistic missiles (SLBM) Bulava in place of the abandoned R-39UTTH Bark missile.” Currently, the Russian ...