He warned: "This thing could park a couple of hundred warheads off Washington and New York and no one would know anything about it until it was all over." As Marko engaged his caterpillar drive, it passed undetected by the USS Dallas, a US attack submarine, captained by Bart Mancuso (Scott Glenn) who was tracking the Red October. We will pass through the American patrols, pass their sonar nets, and lay off their largest city and listen to their rock 'n roll while we conduct missile drills." Afterwards, they would sail to Havana, Cuba for sun, comradeship, and shore leave.Īt US Naval yards in Maryland, Jack Ryan met with submarine engineering expert 'Skip' Tyler (Jeffrey Jones), and learned that the submarine doors in the photographs meant that the Red October was equipped with a unique and revolutionary propulsion system known as a magneto-hydrodynamic drive (aka caterpillar drive), an ultra-quiet jet engine in the water that was undetectable. He then addressed the crew on their maiden voyage with his own orders - "a game of chess against our old adversary, the American Navy." Explaining that they now had the advantage with their silent caterpillar drive, he boasted: "We will leave our fleet behind. Ramius then had the doctor and cook's assistant Igor Loginov (Tomas Arana) witness him removing the dead officer's missile key, granting himself sole power to arm the missiles. Suddenly, Ramius murdered Putin, substituted his own plans, and then explained to the ship's doctor Yevgeniy Petrov (Tim Curry) and cook's assistant Igor Loginov (Tomas Arana) how there had been a tragic accident - Putin had supposedly died by slipping on tea and hitting his head.
They were to rendezvous with the Konovalov, an Alpha-class attack sub captained by Captain Tupolev (Stellan Skarsgård). He reported that British Intelligence had taken pictures of the Soviet Navy's new submarine, captained by veteran Ramius, who had taken out the lead boat in each new Soviet sub class in the last ten years, had good political connections, and had trained most of their attack boat skippers.Ĭaptain Marko Ramius met with his Political Officer Ivan Putin (Peter Firth) in his cabin, where they jointly opened a safe to look at the sub's orders. where he met with Vice Admiral James Greer (James Earl Jones) in CIA headquarters. In London, England, CIA researcher/analyst Jack Ryan (Alec Baldwin), after leaving his wife Caroline and 5 year-old daughter Sally, flew from Heathrow Airport to Washington, DC. But according to other US and Soviet government reports, nothing happened of "what you are about to see."įrom the Soviet submarine base near Murmansk, the newest Soviet Navy ballistic submarine, named the Red October, launched to sea, captained by Marko Ramius (Sean Connery). The film's preface stated that in 1984, a Typhoon-class Soviet submarine surfaced near the Grand Banks off Nova Scotia, and then sank in deep water, apparently suffering a radiation problem, while some of the crew were rescued. Like so many aspects of the Russian Navy submarine fleet, we are kept guessing.The Hunt for Red October (1990) | Patriot Games (1992) | Clear and Present Danger (1994) But that is not to say it couldn’t be done. If so (and it seems likely), then it could involve major renovations. Possibly some modernization work would be required if not all of the missile tubes are currently active. So whether or not Dmitry Donskoy currently carries part of Russia’s nuclear deterrent, it seems that it could if called upon. And it has been observed at a weapons pier specially designed for loading and unloading nuclear missiles. It frequently joins other Russian Navy vessels on exercises. Under this all of the tubes have to be counted even if not used.Įven if it only has one missile tube ready there is no denying that the giant submarine is still active. The difference to the Russian Ministry of Defense information may reflect their status under New START (Strategic Arms Reduction Treaty).
But there have been persistent rumors that only one or two tubes were upgraded to allow it to act as a test bed. Officially, per the Russian Ministry of Defense website ( in Russian), it has a capability for 20 of the missiles.
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