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The missile-firing submarines were designed to operate in the Arctic under pack ice. A typical Typhoon was more than 1.5 times longer than a football field and three times as tall as the average American house. If you’ve ever seen The Hunt for Red October, you’re probably familiar with Russia’s truly massive Typhoon-class submarines. These Cold War giants still stand as the largest subs ever built. Just how big are we talking? Each u-boat stretched to nearly 600 feet long and was wid...

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explored the world of MHD drive-powered superboats . Short for "magnetohydrodynamic," MHD drives hoped to one day revolutionize ocean-going vessels by increasing their tops speeds to 100 knots, but the low efficiency of these experimental drives made them impractical for wide implementation. A vast shape darts beneath the polar ice flows, and is gone, as silent as a living creature, but far swifter. Clad in steel, and traveling at over 100 miles per hour, it leaves only a mist-like trail of b...

A year of mourning: All the tragic celebrity deaths of 2020   Published On Stars from Lollywood, Bollywood and Hollywood who left us too early Tariq Aziz: Tariq Aziz was a Pakistani TV actor and host, best known for PTV’s test show Neelam Ghar, first circulated in 1974, later renamed the Tariq Aziz Show and recently as Bazm-e-Tariq Aziz. He was the principal face to show up on television in Pakistan. He had additionally been an individual from the National Assembly of Pakistan between 1997...