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Saturday, March 31, 2012

Enter the shark: INS Chakra

[Akula II Class (RS Nerpa - INS Chakra)]The Soviet Union's answer to the US Navy's superior Los Angeles class nuclear powered attack submarines (SSN) was quiet and understated.

Like submarines are designed to be. It came from the East, at the Soviet Union's Komsomolsk-na-Amuriye shipyard in the eastern fringe of the Soviet empire.

In 1984, the Soviet navy inducted this new class of nuclear-powered attack submarine. It was dubbed 'Schuka-B' (a breed of aggressive fresh water pike). The B, because the earlier Victor class was already called the Schuka.

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