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Ported from the original model created by Lazarus Starkweather for Microsoft's Combat Flight Simulator 2 (CFS2). Preview picture posed in XNALara XPS. NO MODEL DOWNLOAD.

These were the first Soviet cruise missile submarines (SSGN), entering service with the Soviet Navy at the start of the 1950s. They were contemporaries of the Hotel and November classes and shared similar nuclear propulsion systems. There were two distinct groups, designated in the West by the NATO code names Echo I (Project 659) and Echo II (Project 675). This CG model is of the second group, Echo II. Echo I was fitted with six launchers for the SS-N-3c cruise missile (NATO code name Shaddock) for anti-ship operations, but a corresponding lack of sophisticated fire control and radar guidance systems limited their usefulness. Production of Echo I was stopped at only five boats, and an upgraded version commenced production instead. Echo II was almost the same, save that it was armed with the SS-N-3a variant instead and this time was built with the necessary fire control and radar guidance systems to use them effectively. In the mid-1970s 14 Echo IIs were further modified to handle the newer and more sophisticated SS-N-12 anti-ship cruise missile (NATO code name Sandbox). Whereas the older Echo I boats operated almost exclusively with the Soviet Far East fleet, use of the Echo IIs was split between its Atlantic and Pacific fleets. All of the Echo Is had already been retired by the late 1980s and were in the process of being scrapped when the Cold War ended with the collapse of the Soviet Union in 1991. With the successor Russian Federation lacking the funds to keep all Soviet naval vessels in the field and fully functional, a number of units and sometimes entire classes were sent to the barn or the scrapyard in the 1990s. That included all of the Echo IIs as well, and not one survived the scrapper's torch. To find out more about the Soviet Echo class submarine, follow the link below:

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Echo-cla…

This is a straightforward port, with no changes by me.

This is not my model. All I did was port it for you. Please credit Lazarus Starkweather if you use this in any of your own 3D efforts. You do not have to credit me for my OBJ port.

For non-profit, non-commercial use only.

Description

Ported from the original model created by Lazarus Starkweather for Microsoft's Combat Flight Simulator 2 (CFS2). Preview picture posed in XNALara XPS. NO MODEL DOWNLOAD.

These were the first Soviet cruise missile submarines (SSGN), entering service with the Soviet Navy at the start of the 1950s. They were contemporaries of the Hotel and November classes and shared similar nuclear propulsion systems. There were two distinct groups, designated in the West by the NATO code names Echo I (Project 659) and Echo II (Project 675). This CG model is of the second group, Echo II. Echo I was fitted with six launchers for the SS-N-3c cruise missile (NATO code name Shaddock) for anti-ship operations, but a corresponding lack of sophisticated fire control and radar guidance systems limited their usefulness. Production of Echo I was stopped at only five boats, and an upgraded version commenced production instead. Echo II was almost the same, save that it was armed with the SS-N-3a variant instead and this time was built with the necessary fire control and radar guidance systems to use them effectively. In the mid-1970s 14 Echo IIs were further modified to handle the newer and more sophisticated SS-N-12 anti-ship cruise missile (NATO code name Sandbox). Whereas the older Echo I boats operated almost exclusively with the Soviet Far East fleet, use of the Echo IIs was split between its Atlantic and Pacific fleets. All of the Echo Is had already been retired by the late 1980s and were in the process of being scrapped when the Cold War ended with the collapse of the Soviet Union in 1991. With the successor Russian Federation lacking the funds to keep all Soviet naval vessels in the field and fully functional, a number of units and sometimes entire classes were sent to the barn or the scrapyard in the 1990s. That included all of the Echo IIs as well, and not one survived the scrapper's torch. To find out more about the Soviet Echo class submarine, follow the link below:

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Echo-cla…

This is a straightforward port, with no changes by me.

This is not my model. All I did was port it for you. Please credit Lazarus Starkweather if you use this in any of your own 3D efforts. You do not have to credit me for my OBJ port.

For non-profit, non-commercial use only.