For most of the 45 years of the Cold War, the Soviet submarine force was a major factor in the political-military confrontation between the Soviet Union and the United States. At times numbering more than 400 submarines, including highly innovative nuclear, cruise-missile, and ballistic-missile units, in many respects Soviet undersea craft dominated U.S. Navy thinking and strategy.

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