The Soviet Navy's Project 611, also known by their NATO reporting name of Zulu class, were designed as attack submarines, but six were converted to become the world's first ballistic missile submarines, one armed with a single F-11FM Scud missile and five others with two Scuds each. The missiles were too long to be contained in the boat's hull, and extended into the enlarged sail. Soviet submarine B-67 successfully launched a missile on 16 September1955. ms paint rendition of soviet naval pennant File links The following pages link to this file: Soviet submarine K-278 Typhoon class submarine Soviet Navy Whiskey class submarine Categories: Flag images ... For the comics character Scud, see Scud: The Disposable Assassin. ... The Soviet Naval ensign The Soviet Naval jack The Soviet Navy (Russian: Военно-морÑкой флот СССР, Voyenno-morskoy flot SSSR, literally Naval military forces of the USSR) was the naval arm of the Soviet armed forces. ... NATO reporting names were code names for Soviet and Chinese military equipment. ... SSBN is the United States Navy Hull classification symbol for a fleet ballistic missile submarine. ... For the comics character Scud, see Scud: The Disposable Assassin. ... September 16 is the 259th day of the year (260th in leap years). ... 1955 is a common year starting on Saturday of the Gregorian calendar. ...
The success of the converted Zulus prompted the design of Project 629, the Golf class submarines. The Project 629 Golf class submarine was a Soviet diesel electric ballistic missile submarine. ...
A total of 26 boats were built, the first entering service in 1952. 1952 was a leap year starting on Tuesday (link will take you to calendar). ...
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