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Encyclopedia > Quebec class submarine

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General Characteristics Soviet Naval Ensign
Displacement: 460 tons surfaced, 540 tons submerged
Length: 56.0 metres (183 feet 9 inches)
Beam: 5.1 metres (16 feet 5 inches)
Draught: 3.8 metres (12 feet 6 inches)
Propulsion: Kreislauf system: two 700 hp conventional diesel engines, one 900 hp AIP (LOX) diesel engine, one electric creep motor; three shafts
Speed: 18 knots surfaced, 16 knots submerged
Range: 2750 nautical miles at cruising speed on surface
Complement: 30 officers and men
Armament: four 533mm (21-inch) torpedo tubes in bow, eight anti-submarine/anti-ship torpedoes
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The Quebec-class submarine was the NATO reporting name of the Soviet Project 615 submarine class, a small coastal attack submarine of the late 1950s. This image is a temporary placeholder for articles(mostly those utilizing the table from Wikipedia:WikiProject Ships/Tables) which still need a picture to illustrate them. ... NATO reporting names were code names for Soviet and Chinese equipment. ... Soviet Union - Wikipedia /**/ @import /skins/monobook/IE50Fixes. ... USS Los Angeles A submarine is a specialized watercraft that can operate underwater. ... Millennia: 1st millennium - 2nd millennium - 3rd millennium Events and trends Technology United States tests the first fusion bomb. ...


Quebec-class submarines were fitted with two regular diesel engines and a third, closed-cycle diesel engine, which used liquid oxygen (LOX) to provide air-independent propulsion while the submarine was submerged. This system produced remarkable submerged speed and range, and greatly increased the risk of explosion or fire. Liquid oxygen (also LOx, LOX or Lox in the aerospace industry) is the liquid form of oxygen. ... Air-Independent Propulsion (AIP), is a term that encompasses technologies which allow a submarine to operate without the need to surface or use a snort mast to access atmospheric oxygen. ... Gasoline explosions, simulating bomb drops at an airshow. ... FIRE can stand for Foundation for Individual Rights in Education Fully Integrated Robotised Engine, an engine from Fiat. ...


The M-256 was lost from this cause. Quebecs were referred to by their crews as "cigarette lighters."


Around forty were built between 1953 and 1957 of the 100 planned before the project was abandoned and the Soviet Union followed the lead of the United States and developed nuclear powered boats. The last were retired in the 1970s. 1953 is a common year starting on Thursday. ... 1957 was a common year starting on Tuesday (link will take you to calendar). ... The United States of America — also referred to as the United States, the U.S.A., the U.S., America, the States, or (archaically) Columbia—is a federal republic of 50 states located primarily in central North America (with the exception of two states: Alaska and Hawaii). ... Events and trends Although in the United States and in many other Western societies the 1970s are often seen as a period of transition between the turbulent 1960s and the more conservative 1980s and 1990s, many of the trends that are associated widely with the Sixties, from the Sexual Revolution...


An example, the M-261 is on display in Krasnodor in Russia and another, the M-302 in Odessa in the Ukraine. The Russian Federation (Russian: Росси́йская Федера́ция, transliteration: Rossiyskaya Federatsiya or Rossijskaja Federacija), or Russia (Russian: Росси́я, transliteration: Rossiya or Rossija), is a country that stretches over a vast expanse of eastern Europe and northern Asia. ... ODESSA (German: Organisation der ehemaligen SS-Angehörigen; The Organization of Former SS-Members) was an alleged Nazi fugitive network set up towards the end of World War II by a group of SS officers. ... Ukraine (Україна, Ukrayina in Ukrainian; Украина in Russian) is a republic in eastern Europe which borders Russia to the east, Belarus to the north, Poland, Slovakia and Hungary to the west, Romania and Moldova to the southwest and the Black Sea to the south. ...



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