So they actually scrapped the K-19. I thought I heard some rich muckety muck purchased the hull, for the purpose of making a museum dedicated to the crews of early Russian nuclear subs.
It is my understanding the Novemember class was orginally concieved to have only one torpedo tube, which was to launch the HUGE T-17 nuclear tipped torpedo. The drawings I have seen of the boat depicted a tube half the length of the boat itself.
The idea was to destroy enemy harbors with this thing. Thank fully it was never made and the Novemember as we know it was instead made.
The Hotel looks like the aft section of a Novemember, with the mid section and bow of a golf. It was a stop gap method of creating a balistic missle launching submarine, using features of existing designs.
The Echo class was also of the Novemember lineage to my knowledge.
All three were concidered more hazardous to their crews, than to their enemy.
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