Mistakes

Roughly 25 minutes into the movie, Jonesy identifies the sub contact as a typhoon-class ballistic missile submarine. They dub it the Typhoon-7 as they have six other typhoon submarines recorded in the computer. In reality, six typhoons were indeed built, with a 7th canceled under construction. However, in November 1984, which is when this is supposed to happen, only two had been commissioned and the third was near completion. Thus, the Dallas couldn't have had six typhoons in its computer at the time, only two. See more...

Trivia

The Alfa-class submarine Konovaljov commanded by Captain Tupolev is named after Soviet Admiral Arkadij Konovaljov. In March 1945, he sunk the German luxury liner Goya in the Baltic Sea on its way to Kiel, killing 6220 East Prussian refugees out of 6385. See more...

Movie Mistakes blog

Bookmark

Update alerts | Exclude type?

Mistakes

Trivia

Corrections

Questions

Submit

Vasily Borodin: I would like to have seen Montana.

Marko Ramius: Forty years I've been at sea. A war at sea. A war with no battles, no monuments... only casualties.

Jack Ryan: "Ryan, some things in here don't react well to bullets." Yeah, like me. I don't react well to bullets.

More movie quotes

Submit this page to:

reddit Facebook What are these?