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The former Soviet submarine K-24, later B-124 and now U-461. It is the last remaining sub of the Soviet project 651 class, known in the West by its NATO reporting name Juliett class. It was a class of Soviet diesel-electric submarines armed with cruise missiles, the largest non-nuclear powered submarines in the world. They were designed in the late 1950s to provide the Soviet Navy with a nuclear strike capability against targets along the east coast of the United States and enemy combatants (aircraft carriers). Initial plans called for 35 submarines of this class. In fact only 16 were actually built. They were commissioned between 1963 and 1968, and served through the 1980s. The last one was decommissioned in 1994. All of them were scrapped, but the U 461 remains as a museum in Peenemünde, Germany. With the sub's length of 86 meters, it is the largest marine museum in the world.