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typhoons

n. (plural of typhoon English)

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We've told 'em we'll also take out their Typhoons and Alfas - why, for God's sake, are you Limeys being so goddam long about it?

Quite apart from their size, Typhoons were unlike any other submarine in the world.

Kashirin and Golovanov report that their Typhoons will be another week in preparation at least.

Those eight Typhoons alone carried unimaginable potential firepower, 160 ICBMs, mounting a total of over twelve hundred warheads of one-hundred-kiloton yield apiece.

Nearly one hundred ballistic-missile submarines were deployed with the fleet, from the Typhoons themselves to thirteen aging, diesel-powered relics the West called Golf-IIs.

Other PLARB submarines will be dispatched as they become available, but your two Typhoons offer us our best chance.

They base and supply Typhoons there too, as well as at ports in the White Sea, but their main PLARB center is at Polyamyy.

He would have been happier if both of Admiral Marchenko's Typhoons had made it out to the open sea, but one should be enough.

Karelin hadn't dared work his Typhoons into regular Northern Fleet planning, however.

The West had replied that, just as it had massacred their fleet and patrol submarines in the Atlantic, it could annihilate the Soviet SSBNS, their Delta us and their Typhoons, wherever they tried to hide.

The Typhoons are for you two only, which is why I have cleared the area of all our boats.

He would remember for a long time the silence in the room while everyone stared again at the blow-up photographs of the Typhoons, the blurred pictures hastily snapped by brave Nato agents: twice the size of the Americans' Ohios, these titanium Typhoons were monstrous engines of destruction.

On the other hand he knew that typhoons started as a result of a collision of warm air and cold air: the warm air rose like a bubble in a tub, the cold air rushed into the resulting void, a twist was imparted to the path of the cold air by the earth's rotation, and so you had a rotat-ing windstorm.

But he had noticed that the account in the American Practical Navigator closed with an apologetic muttering to the effect that certain aspects of typhoons had never been satisfactorily explained.

He as-sumed, therefore, that there were in fact no typhoons in those waters, and went about his chores in quietness of spirit.