![]() Later putting information about Ramius's letter together with the subsequent launch of the entire Northern Fleet, Ryan deduces Ramius's plans to defect. Meanwhile, CIA analyst Jack Ryan determines that the submarine's new construction variations house a stealth drive. As tensions rise between the US and Soviet fleets due to the unannounced incursion of the Soviet Northern Fleet into Atlantic waters, the crew of Dallas analyzes tapes of Red October 's acoustic signature and realizes that it is the sound of a new propulsion system. Dallas 's sonar operator hears the sound of the stealth drive but does not immediately identify it as a submarine. Before sailing, Ramius sends a letter to Admiral Yuri Padorin brazenly stating his intention to defect the Soviet Northern Fleet then sails out to sink Red October under the pretext of a search and rescue mission.Ĭoincidentally, Red October passes near USS Dallas, a Los Angeles-class submarine under the command of Bart Mancuso, which is patrolling the entrance of a route used by Soviet submarines in the Reykjanes Ridge off Iceland. Instead, he plots a course for the North American coast, falsely informing the crew that they will be proceeding undetected all the way to Cuba. Konovalov, commanded by his former student Viktor Tupolev, in order to test the effectiveness of the caterpillar drive. Ramius was ordered to conduct military exercises with Soviet Alfa-class attack submarine V. ![]() As the sub leaves the shipyard at Polyarny, Ramius kills his political officer to ensure that he will not interfere. It is equipped with a cutting-edge silent propulsion system, known as a "caterpillar drive", that makes audio detection by passive sonar extremely difficult and enables the submarine to sneak its way into American territorial waters and launch nuclear missiles with little to no warning. The book was instrumental in bringing the book genre of techno-thriller into the mainstream.ĭuring the Cold War, Marko Ramius, a Soviet Navy submarine commander, plans to defect to the United States with the Typhoon-class ballistic missile submarine Red October. A film adaptation was released on March 2, 1990, and several computer and video games based on the book have been developed. President Ronald Reagan remarked that he had enjoyed reading the book. The Hunt for Red October launched Clancy's successful career as a novelist, especially after then-U.S. It depicts Soviet submarine captain Marko Ramius as he seemingly goes rogue with his country's cutting-edge ballistic missile submarine Red October, and marks the first appearance of Clancy's most popular fictional character, Jack Ryan, an analyst working for the Central Intelligence Agency, as he must prove his theory that Ramius is intending to defect to the United States. In reality there is one pressure hull each side of the missiles, but the SLBMs themselves are surrounded by a ballast tank.The Hunt for Red October is the debut novel by American author Tom Clancy, first published on October 1, 1984, by the Naval Institute Press. The shootout at the end of the movie takes place in a large room surrounding the ballistic missile tubes this is also a somewhat unavoidable error, since at the time the submarine's unorthodox internal arrangement of seven separate pressure hulls was not widely known. In fact, some Soviet photographs were manipulated to remove the propeller cowls. The real submarine had six torpedo tubes, and shrouded propellors with twin rudders directly behind them. The common image (as seen in many model kits and the movie) had two large exposed propellers, eight torpedo tubes and a "beavertail" rudder. Red October herself was a model, and featured an unavoidable error: while photographs of the Typhoon had circulated in the West, nobody outside the intelligence community knew what it looked like below the waterline. In the book it was equipped with an impellor-based tunnel drive system, but in the movie this was changed to a magnetohydrodynamic (MHD) drive system, using two tunnels alongside the submarine's propellers. Red October is a fictional variant of the massive Soviet Typhoon class ballistic missile submarine, the largest ever designed.
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