Красный Октябрь, a fictitious Project 941 Typhoon-class submarine, is the "title character" in the novel The Hunt for Red October by Tom Clancy and the movie based on that story. She is equipped with a revolutionary stealth propulsion system called the "caterpillar drive". In the story, Red October is the seventh Typhoon; in reality the seventh Typhoon officially was cancelled before commissioning. The story centered around a plot by a Soviet submarine captain to defect.
None of the real Typhoon class submarines was officially assigned the name Red October.
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