[sukhoi-30mki]

A gym inside the sub helps sailors to stay in good shape. Source: Oleg Kuleshov

The recreation room. Source: Oleg Kuleshov

More pix at source

[texas booster]

Free weights in a sub? Things have changed from my uncle's service in a tin can.

[Blueflag]

They left out the Красный Oктябрь amongst the list of boats in the series. Note the TV pictured is an old CRT. And think of the noise free weights and jogging machines would generate. And suspended ceilings on a sub? hmmm.... An anechoic vessel of that size can be detected and tracked by the silence it carves out in background noise. Think of a moving block of silence where sound should be.

[PLMerite]

This guy seems to confuse Akula and Typhoon boats.

[HChampagne]

Akula is fast attack, Typhoon is a boomer.

[mosesdapoet]

Impressive thanks for the find.

[Bluewater2015]

If it doesn’t suffer a serious radiation leak or torpedo explosion somewhere along the line then count me impressed.

[Afterguard]

The article is about the Typhoon class, not Akula. Typical of the average reporter and editor, uninterested in research. The Akula was a one-off fast attack, that if i remember correctly, sank a few years back.

[logi_cal869]

Are ‘football fields’ over there really that short?

/s

[Moltke]

All six Akula submarines (...) have been included in the Guinness Book of World Records.

Because as everyone knows that is the real motivation for all defense projects.

[JohnnyP]

Documentary on dismantling one of them. It’s in Russian. I watched one in English last year, can’t find it at the moment:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HGhxGgQ-Cd4

[SZonian]

Rack your weights when you’re done!

And that tv in the rec room looks like one you would find in an antique store...