Key Points and Submarine - In 1968, the Soviet ballistic-missile submarine K-129 sank in the Pacific, prompting the CIA’s ultra-secret Project Azorian. -Using Howard Hughes’ purpose-built Glomar ...
No one knows for sure what killed the 98 men aboard K-129. The Soviet hypothesis was that the ballistic missile sub accidentally slipped beneath operational depth while snorkeling. Perhaps a bad crew ...
Just the second U.S. Navy vessel to be named after the halibut species of fish, SSN-587, or USS Halibut, has the distinction of earning two presidential citations, two Navy Unit Commendations, and the ...