Foxtrot Russian Submarine in Seafront Museum in Zeebrugge, Belgium.
The Foxtrot class submarines were designed in 1953 based on of the documents of German submarine construction that had fallen into Russian hands after the capitulation of the German empire. A submarine's major weapon was the torpedo. A Foxtrot class submarine could carry 22 torpedoes, 18 in the front and 4 at the back. Instead of these torpedoes, the submarine could also hold 44 sea mines that could be placed by means of the torpedo launching tubes. Sometimes the submarine also carried both torpedoes and sea mines. The crew consisted of 12 officers, 12 petty officers, a political commissioner and 50 sailors, among whom many conscripts who served on board the same unit for up to three years. The last mission of our submarine consisted in its participation in the annual naval pageant in St Petersburg in the summer of 1994. The other sole places to visit a Soviet submarine are respectively: Visakhapatnam (in India) San Diego (USA) California (USA) Kaliningrad (Russia).
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Location: Zeebrugge, Belgium
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