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Abandoned typhoon class submarine drivers#

It was some time before we could get one to stop – we were soaked to the skin by this point, the kind of walking flotsam that most drivers would avoid introducing to their car seats at any cost. Or perhaps, it would be more accurate to say that he had picked me up – I would have been headed straight north for Kiev, had a late night beer with the Finn not ended in a handshake, and a plan to team up in tackling the military monoliths of the Crimean Peninsula in a brutal, 36-hour whirlwind of trains, taxis, concrete and vodka.įrom Balaklava, we flagged down a taxi. I say ‘we’ I’d picked up company back in Odessa, shortly after my expedition down into the labyrinthine Odessa Catacombs. Storm or no storm, we were going under the mountain. This trip could not be left for another day. At such breakneck speeds, there was little room for manoeuvre on my fast-paced tour of Ukraine’s most extreme Soviet relics. I had come to Crimea for these two things – the military ‘Objekts’ 221 and 825 – but in just 36 hours I would need to be in Kiev, a good 900 km away  ready for my 32-hour tour of the Chernobyl Exclusion Zone.

Hence my panic-buying of batteries – this wasn’t the sort of place I’d want to find myself without a torch. Its codename was Objekt 221, and according to the rumours I’d heard this unfinished complex featured more than 10 km of tunnels, spread across four levels that cut their way deep into the mountain. We were heading now to another hollow mountain, further inland: to a colossal military installation built by the Soviet Army and long since left to ruin. Our next target was to be something altogether different to the well-kept tunnels, the safety rails and polished museum exhibits back in the once-secret submarine base. I paid for the cheese and batteries, zipping my coat up all the way to my nose before stepping back out into the typhoon that howled around the shop.

Abandoned typhoon class submarine cracked#

We had walked out into a dry, balmy Crimean afternoon… and though with hindsight the heavy feeling in the air might have indicated the brewing storm, when the first thunder cracked and the sky broke into a downpour it had caught us completely unawares. Just 30 minutes earlier we had been beneath the mountain, Mount Tavros, in the wet and winding halls of the Balaklava Naval Museum complex: aka Objekt 825. The storm was raging outside a fierce gale that had descended from nowhere, whipping the harbour into a maelstrom and sending pedestrians scurrying for cover.

Abandoned typhoon class submarine full#

Nevertheless, I got my cheese and a clear plastic bag full of triple-AAA batteries – some brand I’d never heard of and didn’t dare pronounce – all wrapped up in an elastic band. From the look on the woman’s face, it was the worst Russian she’d ever heard. It will remain in combat formation at least until the end of the year," another source told TASS.Give me all your batteries and half a kilo of cheese strings, I said. The ship is currently performing combat training tasks at sea, participating in combat training activities. "Recent reports about the withdrawal of Dmitry Donskoy from the Russian Navy do not correspond to reality. "Then the specialists will have to assess the technical condition of the ship and the stock of nuclear fuel," the source said. Meanwhile, several unnamed sources in the shipbuilding industry and law enforcement agencies in the north of Russia offered conflicting information to TASS regarding the Dmitry Donskoy, following RIA Novosti's report.Ī TASS source in the shipbuilding industry told the news agency that a decision on the future fate of the submarine would be made no earlier than December this year. The submarine had been due to be phased out over the coming decades by the new Borei class of nuclear-powered strategic submarines, according to a report from The National Interest. Decommissioning of the submarine is an issue of five years, at least," the source said. "There are military training events planned for 2021 involving the cruiser. In January 2021, a military insider source told Russia's state-run news agency TASS that the Russian Navy had no immediate plans to decommission Dmitry Donskoy.

It isn't clear why the two submarines were in the White Sea, close to Russia's northwestern coast. #OSINT #SubSunday /j3fbsCTWjR- H I Sutton June 26, 2022

These subs are ginormous, much bigger than anything in the West, even the US Navy's Ohio Classīelgorod is on trials. 2 largest submarines in the world, Belgorod (K-239) and Dmitriy Donskoi (TK-208) (TYPHOON Class) caught on surface in White Sea