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Russia commissioned Severodvinsk on June 14, 2014, the first Yasen-class attack submarine and the first new-generation SSN completed since the Soviet collapse.
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Russia commissioned Severodvinsk on June 14, 2014, the first Yasen-class attack submarine and the first new-generation SSN completed since the Soviet collapse.
Russia’s Project 545 Laika-class, once code-named Husky, is the fifth-generation submarine meant to replace the Yasen-class and the Soviet-era Akula, Sierra II and Victor...
Nimitz-class carriers list slightly to starboard under a full combat load, a List Control System flaw the Navy corrects with fresh-water ballast that cuts...
Every Nimitz-class carrier spends three to five years in a midlife Refueling and Complex Overhaul; France’s Charles de Gaulle refuels every six years in...
Isaac Seitz reviews Russia’s S-400 Triumph against the F-35: the 91N6E Big Bird radar tracking 300 targets at 600 km, the 92N6E fire-control radar,...
Japan’s Taigei-class is its most advanced attack submarine: 84 meters long, 3,000 tons, built around lithium-ion batteries that replaced the Sōryū-class’s Stirling air-independent propulsion...
On October 28 the Borei-class submarine Generalissimus Suvorov fired a Bulava intercontinental ballistic missile while submerged in the Sea of Okhotsk, hitting a range...
China’s J-35, the carrier and land-based fighter built for the Fujian and once the export-only FC-31, has drawn interest from one foreign buyer: Pakistan,...
Only two navies run nuclear-powered aircraft carriers: the US with 11, and France with one. The Charles de Gaulle, commissioned five years late in...
Iran is the F-14 Tomcat’s sole operator. The Shah took delivery of 79 to counter Iraq’s MiG-25s, and in the Iran-Iraq War Tehran claimed...