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The USSR's Titanium Submarines Were so Expensive that the United States Preferred Not to Copy Them.

In Leningrad, for a whole decade, technicians assembled warships in inert argon bubbles. Dressed in pressurized suits, they looked like scaphandriers. The metal, too unstable to be soldered in the open air, required this permanent chemical theatre. Soviet titanium submarines would probably not exist without this extraordinary industrial effort. Why forge Soviet titanium submarines rather than steel The interest of titanium jumps to the eye for a…
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In Leningrad, for a whole decade, technicians assembled warships in inert argon bubbles. Dressed in pressurized suits, they looked like scaphandriers. The metal, too unstable to be soldered in the open air, required this permanent chemical theatre. Soviet titanium submarines would probably not exist without this extraordinary industrial effort. Why forge Soviet titanium submarines rather than steel The interest of titanium jumps to the eye for a…

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Science-et-vie.com broke the news on Tuesday, May 5, 2026.
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