Alfa-Class by the Numbers: 40 Knots, a Titanium Hull and a 30-Person Crew: The Soviet Project 705 Lira, known to NATO as the Alfa class, was built around one extreme requirement: speed. Seven ...
When people think of the nuclear arms race, they typically picture mushroom clouds, ballistic missiles, and world leaders locked in Cold War rivalry. But behind every warhead stood a network of secret ...