Boomer

"Let the missiles fly!"

- Boomer

History
"Deep sea vessel, standing by"

- Boomer, awaiting orders

The Boomer was Yuri's only fighting naval unit. It was essentially a combination of the Soviet Typhoon and Dreadnought designs. These units were especially prevalent around Yuri's essential installations, such as his main cloning facility in Australia, and his secret island space facility.

Yuri's boomer was capable of firing twin torpedoes at once and when surfaced could launch ballistic missiles onto shore installations. This, along with increased heavy armor (the strongest of any ship), gave it dominating power over the Typhoon Submarine still used by Soviet forces, which could not attack land targets, and could launch only one torpedo at a time. An elite Boomer could fire four torpedoes and their SLBM becomes much more explosive and inflicts more damage. It was also designed to be immune to Giant Squids. However, Yuri's boomer was not very swift, nor did it utilize as heavy weaponry as the dreadnought (though the stealth it had largely compensated for that), and it had not defense against air units if was stopped. However, as Yuri's sole offensive Naval unit, Yuri and his commanders had little choice in the matter.

Yuri used the Boomer as a general purpose sea unit in a bid to control the seas. The boomer was capable of attacking all varieties of units except air units. However, when surfaced, the boomer could be attacked by most units. In spite of the boomer was strong armor, it was still vulnerable to Allied destroyer  launched Osprey aircraft. Even though one on one the Boomer could easily sink any other ship, the destroyer and typhoon cost half as much, and in the typhoon's case could cost 3/8s as much with the industrial plant.

When the boomer surfaced to fire its missiles it was incapable of defending itself, leaving it vulnerable to air strikes. Furthermore, any land based unit with a great enough range could hit the boomer. Finally, anti-aircraft weapons could destroy the boomer's missiles, protecting anything targeted by the boomer. ll ships equipped with sonar, such as the Destroyer could detect the boomer, and then attack it and relay its position to other units and buildings.

A wolf pack of boomer submarines was a fierce enemy and could send entire fleets beneath the waves (especially if the element of surprise was on their side, which was the case), a wolf pack of all elite boomers was considered such a threat that commanders would go to great lengths to deal with them before they could get a chance to destroy their base. But if destroying the boomers was not an option, commanders are best advised to build as much anti-aircraft defenses and produce as many anti-aircraft units as possible and distribute them amongst the base as well as possible before the submarines could level the construction yard.

That is, or have a spare construction yard far inland enough to be safe, or at the very least have an MCV at the ready.