Its surfaced displacement was over 24,000 tons, about one and a quarter times that of the US Ohio-class SSBN. The Soviet Typhoon-class, nuclear-powered, ballistic missile submarines (SSBNs) were the world's largest submarines. Two pop-up rescue chambers, designed for the entire crew, are located at the base of the cabin under the sail. But even with this displacement, as well as a length of 172.8 meters and a width of more than 23 meters, the ships of this project were among the lowest noise among Soviet submarines. This led to an increase in ship displacement, which in the submerged position reached 48,000 tons. Further, the missiles, designed to become the "main caliber" of the submarine cruiser, turned out to be long and heavy. The boat was required to surface through the Artic ice under any circumstances, and this required enornormous reserve bouyancy to force a hole throught the overlying ice. The architectural scheme chosen for the Project 941 submarine was a forced solution. Whether the intelligence community realized this at the time of their construction awaits further declassifications. Project 685 - Plavnik / Mike, the Project 705 - Lira / Alfa, and the Project 971 - Shuka-B / Akula, there was no indication in the open literature that the TYPHOON might also feature this material. While Western intelligence quickly suspected the use of Titanium in high-speed attack submarines such as the Project 661 - Anchar / Papa, the The Project 941 boats were by far the largest submarines in the world to use Titanium for their primary pressure hull. This design significantly increased the survivability of the submarine cruiser, but it was also his main curse. The "sharks" were also the only submarines of the catamaran type in the world - they had two independent hulls, between which there were missile launchers. These were the largest submarines in the world - their size is recorded in the Guinness Book of Records. In the early 1980s, nuclear strategic missile submarines of the project 941 “Shark” began to be introduced into the structure of the Navy of the USSR.
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