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…