Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Submarine lead For the USS Gerald R Ford, it was a routine show of force on Europe’s north-west flank – a 100,000-ton reminder ...

"The Hunt For Red October" is a Tom Clancy novel adapted into a 1990 movie starring Alec Baldwin and Sean Connery. It's about a Soviet ballistic-missile submarine that could run silently through the ...

Key Points and Summary - The 1975 mutiny that inspired The Hunt for Red October had a radically different motive than the fiction it spawned. -The real-life figure was Valery Sablin, a Soviet naval ...

Two real-life events shaped Tom Clancy’s award-winning book: an attempted mutiny on a Soviet frigate, and the mysterious disappearance of one of its most advanced submarines. The crux of the novel is ...

Decades before Tom Clancy wrote “The Hunt for Red October,” an Italian naval officer pulled off a stunt that could have come straight from a Cold War spy novel — he stole a submarine to spark a war.