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u/cbadge1 · 12 pointsr/submarines

>In January 1949 the Chief of Naval Operations directed both the Atlantic and Pacific Fleets to create a submarine division to develop techniques for submarines to detect and destroy enemy undersea craft. Named Project Kayo, this led to the establishment of Submarine Development Group (SubDecGru) 2 in the Atlantic and SubDevGru 11 in the Pacific, with the sole mission of solving submarine ASW problems. Initially each group was assigned two fleet submarines and two GUPPY conversions. Both individuals and multiple submarine tactics were investigated under Kayo, often in Artic waters.
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>A multitude of problems were identified by Project Kayo and by other ASW exercises. Submarine communications were found to be completely unsatisfactory, preventing coordinated efforts with aircraft and surface ships. Also, the SSK role submarines only could detect diesel submarines that were moving at high speeds (over eight knots). Although Project Kayo was soon reduced to only SubDevGru 2, the Korean War, which erupted in June 1950, increased interest in submarine ASW. The three submarines of the K1 class were completed in 1951-1952. Their anti-submarine performance was most impressive for the time: In exercises off Bermuda in 1952, the prototype K1 detected a snorkeling submarine at 30 n. miles and was able to track the target for five hours.

Cold War Submarines: The Design and Construction of U.S. and Soviet Submarines, 1945-2001

by Norman Polmar and K. J. Moore

u/Vepr157 · 10 pointsr/submarines

Sure! To start I have two good online Russian resources (I use the auto-translate feature on Google Chrome). http://militaryrussia.ru/blog/index-10.html has articles about a wide variety of submarines with some good pictures. That specific link goes to the general submarine section, but if you click on the links with the folder icons on the right side of the page, you can navigate to more articles, including articles on weapons. Some of these categories are a bit sparse, and a few "articles" are just blank pages, but in general the articles they do have are pretty good.

The second is deepstorm.ru. They have articles on each project, including many unbuilt projects, typically with an excellent interior profile view at the bottom. They also have a brief history for each and every boat. The website itself is super-clunky, so I would recommend searching something on google like "deepstorm.ru 667BDRM" or "deepstorm.ru Delta IV." If you search "deepstorm.ru [number]" you can search for both submarine projects and specific submarines with their K or B numbers.

And lastly, I would highly, highly recommend Cold War Submarines by Norman Polmar and K.J. Moore. It covers the development of both U.S. and Russian submarines, and is the best English-language source on the latter (much of the Russian info is straight from Russian sub designers). The only limitations are that it's a 2004 book (Norman is working on a revised version right now with just the Russian stuff) and that they don't go into an enormous amount of technical detail on any specific submarine. But they do give a fantastic summary of why a particular submarine was developed, which is really valuable to have.

There are more books other submarine subjects I can recommend, but those are my suggestions for the USSR/Russia. If you have any other specific subjects you'd like to research, just PM me on reddit and I'll help as best I can.

u/whibbler · 5 pointsr/IAmA

Excepting any authors here, two classic books to recommend are Blind Man's Bluff (https://www.amazon.com/Blind-Mans-Bluff-Submarine-Espionage/dp/1610393589/) and, for the serious geeks, Cold War Submarines (https://www.amazon.com/Cold-War-Submarines-Construction-1945-2001/dp/1574885308/).

I don't normally read any fiction but I just read a brand new book called Arctic Gambit by Larry Bond and Chris Carlson (https://www.amazon.com/Arctic-Gambit-Jerry-Mitchell-Novel/dp/0765334925/) and I very much enjoyed it. Possibly a future classic.