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Russian Navy Typhoon Class SSBNThe Typhoon class, Soviet designation Project 941 Akula Russian: ?????, meaning "shark", NATO reporting name Typhoon is a class of nuclear-powered ballistic missile submarines designed and built by the Soviet Union for the Soviet Navy With a submerged displacement of 48,000 tonnes,the Typhoons are the largest submarines ever built, able to accommodate comfortable living facilities for the crew when submerged for months on end The source of the NATO reporting name remains unclear, although it is often claimed to be related to the use of the word "typhoon" "??????" by General Secretary Leonid Brezhnev of the Communist Party in a 1974 speech while describing a new type of nuclear ballistic missile submarine, as a reaction to the United States Navys new Ohio-class submarineThe Russian Navy cancelled its Typhoon modernization program in March 2012, stating that modernizing one Typhoon would be as expensive as building two new Borei-class submarines With the announcement that Russia has eliminated the last SS-N-20 Sturgeon SLBMs in September 2012, the remaining Typhoons have reached the end of service
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