with the NATO designation of Yankee-class. The Soviets introduced this submarine class in 1967 to counter the thermonuclear Polaris missiles used by the Americans in their SSBNs. Although the K ...

Thus, the submarine units of the Pacific Fleet gradually came to make this peninsula their main base, from where almost every month a Yankee-class submarine (Project 667A) would depart for the patrol ...

Many were converted for different uses, including for intelligence-gathering and as cruise-missile and attack submarines. By 1995, all Yankee-class boats had been decommissioned. In 1972 ...