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Originally Posted by Kapitan
As far as im led to believe Alfa was meant to be a sort of interceptor submarine here is a boat with a huge power out put from a powerful reactor in a small light wieght hull with minimal crew the idea being they would dart out of port and chase down any enemy submarines.
But please do answer the questions you raise leads to endless possibilities
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In case of Alfa, it is basically a product of MIC inertia.
The original concept indeed was to create an interceptor submarine with minimal displacement (titanium hull, automation) and maximum speed (high energy density) as a part of the system (with fixed sensors, ships and C3ISR submarines) to combat then short ranged SLBM platforms. As such stealth was not the chief concern, speed (both in transit and in combat), manueverability were.
However due to the growth of the SLBM range the original requirement for Alfa dissappeared, the C3ISR submarine project, after several iterations made birth.... to Akula class (Akula class was originally developed as a subset of that project, the project itself was never completed into metal but desighn elements went into Akula and 4th gen desighns ie Yasen).