High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! The Soviet Union/Russian Navy Project 705 was a submarine class of hunter/killer nuclear powered vessels. The class is also known by the NATO reporting name of Alfa. They were the fastest and deepest diving class of military submarines built, with only the prototype K-278 Komsomolets exceeding in crush depth and the prototype K-222 exceeding in submerged speed. The initial design work began in May 1960 by the Malakhit Design Bureau in St. Petersburg and was highly innovative, necessarily so to meet the demanding requirements - sufficient speed to successfully pursue any ship; the ability to avoid anti-submarine weapons and to ensure success in underwater combat; low detectability, in particular to airborne MAD arrays, and also especially to active sonars; minimal displacement and minimal crew complement.

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