The title says it all.
The modders of DWX sustain that the operating depth of the Alfa is around 600m. The decision has caused great havoc in the italian forum where most players can't accept this fact. They cite janes publications as a source that states that the Alfa can go way below 600m. Even Lwami uses this estimate.
Now in a recent american book,
Cold War Submarines which I happen to have; at page 281 the author Norman Polmar states that :
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Design of Soviet Navy's third-generation nuclear torpedo-attack submarines (SSN) began at 1971 at TsKB Lazurit. Titanium was specified for the design, continuing the developments of a key technology of Projects 661/Papa and 705/Alfa. Beyond reducing submarine weight, titanium would provide a greater test depth in third generation SSns - 1970 feet (600m) - which would be coupled with other SSN advances, including improved quieting, weapons, and sensors.....
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So it seems the modders estimate of the Alfa's depth is correct.
The question I ask is therefore, why are important publications such as jane's still continuing the myth of the Alfa's depth ?
The Mike an early 80's sub could go down to 1000m as stated in Cold War Submarines;but certainly not the Alfa which was a first generation titanium hull submarine made a decade earlier.