Das frühere sowjetische U-Boot K-24, später B-124 und heute U-461. Es ist das das letzte noch existierende Boot des Projekts 651, der größten jemals gebauten konventionellen Unterwasser-Raketenkreuzer. Insgesamt wurden 16 Stück dieser Klasse gebaut, die ab den 1960er Jahren bis in die 90er in Dienst waren, mittlerweile aber verschrottet sind. Das letzte Boot liegt in Peenemünde auf der Insel Usedom als Museum. Mit 86m Länge ist es das größte U-Boot Museum der Welt. Spätere und größere U-Boote sind allesamt atombetrieben.

The U 461, 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 biggest sumarine museum in the world.

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